Sentences with phrase «at ebook writers»

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At Caligraphics we do web development, business cards, ads, logos and anything else that comes along, but for the last seven years we've been specializing in ebook covers, and we've done nearly 800 covers for Smashwords and Amazon writers.

While traditional publishers are locking said gates and gouging prices of ebooks, readers all over the world are embracing new work from new writers at a fraction of the cost.

Writers can now add actual sounds to their work, or at least to ebooks.

To facilitate greater access to the free tools of ebook publishing and distribution, Los Gatos Public Library last week rolled out a new co-branded publishing portal (managed by Smashwords), which allows local writers to publish and distribute ebooks at no cost.

writer, wanderluster, ebook developer, UCSB and NYU alum, co-dinosaur obsessor at http://iknowdino.com, blogger at http://digitalpubbing.com

For newbies you are right as every new author needs to write, write, write for at least four years, time it takes to get a PhD in Letters before even submitting material to an agent or editor, but once any writer KNOWS intuitively that his or her novel is as good or better than James Patterson (pretty easy to better this guy) and he or she has had the novel vetted by a good independent editor / ghost writer like myself, the ebooks are the way to go, period.

I assume that's what the original fonts option would be for (I'm too lazy to download, import, convert, and sideload everything anymore so I haven't used Calibre in a long time — mostly I just read library ebooks lately because it's my opinion that 90 % of writers suck at writing so I have no interest in paying for most books).

I think it would have worked the same if $ 0.99 never existed and $ 2 would have been the great thing for Indie writers to be discovered because established authors from publishing houses still sell their ebooks at over 5 times that price in most cases.

At a host of online sites, a writer can find and hire talented freelance help to produce great book covers, to design and lay out her print edition, and to format her ebooks (which she can also learn to do easily for herself).

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware Yesterday, with great fanfare, Apple rolled out two new applications: iBooks 2, with new features aimed at students; and iBooks Author, which allows individuals to create iPad - optimized ebooks.

I look upon my time as a bestselling independent writer, whose work is published exclusively as eBooks, as serving my apprenticeship in literature while at the same time being paid as a professional through the act of receiving regular monthly royalty payments.

This week, she's celebrating Launch Week for her latest ebook, A Writer's Bucket List, an inspirational and educational guide for writers at all levels of their careers.

As Barnes & Noble was the major sponsor of the event, they had the exclusive right to sell books and ebooks at the event, meaning that Autography and other writers or publishers were unable to sell ebooks on site.

For some non-fiction writers, where your book's content is more likely to be read non-sequentially, it means if the reader starts their reading deeper in the book at Chapter 10, a sale could be triggered after reading only 20 % of the book (As an aside, this underscores the importance of authors building fully functional navigation into their ebooks so that all their book's content is easily discoverable.

It allows writers to submit their own works and allows users to download independent ebooks at a very affordable rate!

I'm Julia Laflin, writer and author of The House At Roc Noir, an atmospheric novella set in the lonely wilds of Corsica, which has recently been selling very nicely as a self - published ebook.

For that price, you're looking at an ebook with 10,000 - 20,000 words with a writer who charges somewhere near.01 cent per word.

Other ebook versions (including the PDF version) can be found at Angela and Becca's site, Writers Helping Writers.

What I object to, Jay, is that the publishers have a stated disinterest in ebooks existing at all (curiously they eagerly grab for the ebook rights so that the writer can not enjoy digital success on their own).

And as an eBook writer, it's your choice if you want to price your printed book at $ 15 apiece and get limited distribution in a state where fewer than 10,000 people will see it in their local bookstores.

This is - particularly - true so long as Amazon maintains an exclusuvity policy in tandem with KU — that is, a writer's ebook can not participate at all in KU unless it is - completely unavalable - at all other ebook vendors / outlets besides Amazon.

At the Willamette Writers Conference I attended a few weeks ago this was evident in all the presentations provided on publishing and marketing ebooks.

Amazon, who certainly was not alone at the forefront of providing self - published authors with ebook publication access but has made a name for itself as a leader in the field, opened the doors of Kindle Direct Publishing to an international audience of writers.

Before becoming a full - time writer in 2006, Hilary worked in the publishing industry for ten years, holding positions in editorial, marketing, and business development at Houghton Mifflin, Barnes & Noble.com, and the ebook division of Time Warner Books (now Hachette).

With the greater emphasis at this year's FutureBook event on the important of expanding into international markets, and with ebook retail giants like Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Kobo making headway into bringing ebooks to farther and farther reaches, there has to be a reason for someone to press the buy button on a book written by a Sudanese crime writer or an Indonesian sci fi author.

Sellbox has conducted their 2013 eBook Self - Publisher Survey and reported the results at the Publishers & Writers of San Diego meeting on September 28th.

Dana Sitar presents The Ultimate Guide to Writing Your Manifesto posted at A Writer's Bucket List, saying, «Hone your self - publishing skills and build your author platform by creating a manifesto ebook that tells people who you are, what you do, and why you do it.»

To read more stories on the theme of the senses, and wonder at the amazing inventiveness of other writers featured in the anthology, you'll find Eating My Words available as ebook and paperback available to buy on Amazon.

So... I'm describing this slide show to the other professional writers at lunch, and I (the mathematician's daughter who grew up on a steady diet of statistical analysis and probabilities [my father's two favorite subjects]-RRB- hear myself say, «Digital Book World asked this guy to examine the impact of ebook sales on hardcover sales, making the study flawed in the first place.»

C.K. MacLeod presents Kindle Textbook Creator in 7 Steps posted at Tech Tools for Writers, saying, «Amazon will now take a beautifully designed PDF and turn it into an ebook.

Once you have gathered six or so writers who write high quality books similar to what you produce, create a What to Read Next page at the end of your ebook and then list & link each member's book.

Also uncertain at this point is whether Kobo plans to launch the ebooks of traditionally published writers whose works are currently unavailable to those readers without Kindle store or Nook access due to international agreements.

«We're at the beginning of an age where we'll be able to reach a book reading audience exponentially bigger than it was before,» Glusman told an audience of writers last month at the venerable Squaw Valley Community of Writers summer conference in a session on eBook publwriters last month at the venerable Squaw Valley Community of Writers summer conference in a session on eBook publWriters summer conference in a session on eBook publishing.

From bestselling, mainstream novels offered at a discount to exciting, new, up - and - coming indie writers, we have an amazing line - up of ebook bargains that we send out in our email every single day.

-LSB-...] Kindle and eBook Cover Art: Working With a Designer (Amy Harrop)-- «[F] inding a freelance designer to work with — especially when you're a writer at heart — can be... difficult.

At conferences I've met writers who critiqued my work, who became subjects of an article I've written, who write guest articles here at Spec Faith, whose books the CSFF Blog Tour has featured, who are currently judging for the Clive Staples Award, who endorsed my writing ebooAt conferences I've met writers who critiqued my work, who became subjects of an article I've written, who write guest articles here at Spec Faith, whose books the CSFF Blog Tour has featured, who are currently judging for the Clive Staples Award, who endorsed my writing ebooat Spec Faith, whose books the CSFF Blog Tour has featured, who are currently judging for the Clive Staples Award, who endorsed my writing ebook.

In this article we'll take a look at 5 of the most common mistakes writers make when self - publishing an eBook, and also how to avoid them.

Capitalising on the popularity of e-readers such as the Kindle, a new generation of writers is bypassing agents and publishers and using the flexible pricing model of ebooks to offer their work directly to the public at rock - bottom prices.

* March 12, 2016: I gave a talk, «The 10 Most Important Ways to Market Your Ebooks,» at the 2016 Bay to Ocean Writers Conference at Chesapeake College, Wye Mills, Maryland.

If Kobo can lure away enough of those blue - collar writers with a shot at the top 50 list the eBook David could boost sales tremendously and provide readers with the sort of selection and price tag to lure them away from Goliath for good.

Which is why starting out in KU makes sense for new writers (at least in most fiction genres): it gives you access to a market that is very indie - friendly and which is increasingly less likely to buy any ebooks at all.

And you (probably, because you're looking at my page) are a writer who knows that there's so much more to self - publishing than writing a book and sticking it on Amazon (other ebook platforms are available).

I get most of my review copies through NetGalley, which provides free ebooks for review (for more information, click here to read my post at Australasian Christian Writers).

The non-fiction eBook writer has a plethora of tools at his or her disposal, including professional knowledge or reputation, clients or business partners to help promote the eBook, and education that allows the author to -LSB-...]

The non-fiction eBook writer has a plethora of tools at his or her disposal, including professional knowledge or reputation, clients or business partners to help promote the eBook, and education that allows the author to be considered an expert.

«Every single move Amazon has made resulted in MORE money for all participating writers, MORE ebooks for all readers, and MORE opportunity instead of a monopoly (if you follow me at all, you know I'm a contrarian and I see huge, huge opportunity in the other markets now, which of course will have to do something to counter Amazon's big move.)»

Jo Harrison at Writer's Block Admin Services has a series of YouTube videos on formatting your Word files for ebook publishing.

Author Nick Harkaway handily has picked up where we left off in that weekend look at ebook royalties I've mentioned at Writer Unboxed.

I then got challenged by writers in my country to publish an eBook and look at it from the other side... (hmm why did they push me out of the boat first...) What you write about puts into perspective what I have been mulling over for a while.

Our friends at Punk Publishers are hosting a hands - on workshop that aims to let budding writers in on the simple secrets of ebook publishing.