Not exact matches
My blog posts this year included a series of interviews with counsellors / coaches about how to talk with kids about various tricky subjects, a
book club sharing an awesome read (available in written and audio
format) to inspire positive parenting and personal growth each month, and
other articles
on a variety of topics.
Each of the
other books in the series offers the same easy - to - use
format on key skills.
Contact us to have your
book or document specially
formatted and published
on Amazons Kindle bookstore, Apple's iBooks, Barnes & Noble's Nook, Sony eReader and
other electronic
book publishing platforms.
All very well and good, but some manuscripts REQUIRE the use of both
formats, as in indented text, offset by periodic blockquotes of
other material... when you're
formatting a NONFICTION
book for publication
on Smashwords, they kick it back to you when you mix those styles, and yet, it is the CORRECT WAY to
format a nonfiction
book that quotes material.
On the
other hand, if you have a
book ready to go already, you can skim through these chapters and get straight to where I discuss
formatting your e-
book and publishing it for the Kindle - and then, of course, how to promote it for maximum sales.
The
book lists selected editors, designers,
book shepherds, printers, publicists and
other pros and includes useful articles
on everything from
formatting to press releases.
On Monday, Adobe released Adobe Reader Mobile 9, which improves the way smartphones and handheld devices display
books and
other documents that use the open PDF
format created by Adobe.
On the
other hand, text intended for reading online, in my opinion, needs
formatting that's quite different than what we're used to in
books, it's simply a different environment with different needs.
This right sized
format will have a new look and merchandise focused
on books and
other categories that are more reflective of today's business model.
While supporters
on both sides of the
book format aisle proclaimed that their preferred
format was here to stay and the
other was
on its way out, the same... [Read more...]
While supporters
on both sides of the
book format aisle proclaimed that their preferred
format was here to stay and the
other was
on its way out, the same points could be made of digital news.
So assuming those are pro rates for getting your
book edited, covered,
formatted, and distributed as ebook and print
on demand, the questions you should ask yourself is IF a publisher is asking for $ 800 up front from you are: — is the percentage they take of your work going to equal more than that
other $ 800?
The wait is almost over, and
on December 16th it will be available in paperback
format for order
on our website, as well as Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and all
other fine
book retailers.
Selling your work
on Kobo, Apple, Barnes & Noble, and Google Play is not as simple as
formatting your
book into an ePub and posting it
on the
other platforms.
From there I'll count
on what seems to happen organically... many of you will buy and read my
other books on Kindle, and on other ePub formats (such as the B&N Nook and Books for i
books on Kindle, and
on other ePub
formats (such as the B&N Nook and
Books for i
Books for iPad).
When you're done, you'll be able to read them
on any system or device, convert those MOBI or PRC ebooks to PDF or any
other format you'd like and you'll — once again — own those
books that you've payed for.
By posting or uploading any Content
on the Website: (i) you understand that if your Work is in aliterary categoryincluded
on the
Book Country Website, and complies with these General Terms of Use, your Work may be made accessible to users of the Website and members will be able to review, comment
on it and rate it; (ii) you represent and warrant that (A) the Content does not contain any libelous matter or matter otherwise contrary to law or violate any rights of privacy or
other personal or property right whatsoever and (B) you own or control all rights in your Content, that such Content is original and does not, and will not, infringe the copyright, trademark or any
other right of any person or entity, and that any «moral rights» in the Content have been waived; and (iii) you grant to us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty - free, irrevocable, perpetual, transferable right and license (A) to display the Content
on the Website, and (B) with respect to Content
other than your Work, to use, display, reproduce, distribute, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, perform, make, sell and export such Content, in whole and in part,
on the Website or in any
formats and through any media, as we see fit, and you shall have no claims against
Book Country for such use or non-use.
Many new authors might make the mistake of thinking that if they have a portable document
format (PDF) of their
book it means that it can be read
on an e-reader or
other mobile device.
OPDS enables the aggregation, distribution, and discovery of
books, journals, and
other digital content by any user, from any source, in any electronic
format,
on any device.
You'll be able to download the
book in PDF, mobi, and epub
format, so that you can have the convenience of reading the
book on your Kindle, Kobo, computer, phone, tablet, or
other preferred e-reading device.
Based
on the widely implemented Atom Syndication
Format, OPDS Catalogs have been developed since 2009 by a group of ebook developers, publishers, librarians, and booksellers interested in providing a lightweight, simple, and easy to use format for developing catalogs of digital books, magazines, and other co
Format, OPDS Catalogs have been developed since 2009 by a group of ebook developers, publishers, librarians, and booksellers interested in providing a lightweight, simple, and easy to use
format for developing catalogs of digital books, magazines, and other co
format for developing catalogs of digital
books, magazines, and
other content.
OPDS is a lightweight open standard used to create catalogs that enable the aggregation, distribution, and discovery of
books, journals, and
other material by any user, from any source, in any digital
format, and
on any device.
This is how you will sell your
book on Amazon and
other eBook
formats.
Two years after «standing up» to Amazon by handing Apple instant market share in the ebook space, and jumping through hoops to supply every
other harebrained ebook startup with shoddily
formatted content, with nary a thought given to device interoperability nor optimal user experiences, and in the wake of the # 2 domestic
book retailer finally going bankrupt, libraries have seemingly become the one kid
on the playground publishers think they can bully into submission.
After that
on NOOK Simple Touch the program for reading of
books Coolreader, supporting almost all text
formats, text wrappings, folders
on a flash card, and also many
other Android - appendices and games are started.
Still
other companies like Oceanhouse Media have built their success
on reviving favorite titles such as those by Dr. Seuss in electronic, bells - and - whistles
formats; last year, Oceanhouse even released never - before - in - print titles from Dr. Seuss, a series of seven
books that had only ever appeared in serial form in Redbook magazine.
For years I've kept both Kindle
books and
other formats in the My Kindle folder within Dropbox —
on the SD Cards
on phone and tablet.
It provides innovative features not found
on any
other platform and gives you a robust
format to read your comic
books.
Not true at all, you can buy the amazon
books which usually have the best price, but if you want to buy them somewhere else (ibooks or even kobostore) or get them for free
on project gutenberg or any
other source all you have to do is to load them
on an app called calibre (available for mac, linux and windows) which will automatically convert the
books into the more appropriate
format and send them by email to amazon cloud which will make them appear almost imediatly in your kindle.
You can pick up readers who only usually read
on Kobo or Nook, who may be enticed over to Amazon to buy the
other books in the series in print
format.
On the
other hand, you have the two dominant ebook
formats, epub and mobi, that, between them, let you publish your
book in all the major marketplaces (Amazon Kindle, Barnes and Noble Nook, Apple iBooks, and Google Play).
Note: You don't need to have a Kindle or
other brand of eBook reader to read an eBook (although these free
books work
on those devices)-- nearly all of these
books are available in both text and PDF versions and many are available in a
format specifically designed for smart phones.
Sometimes they'll plan a small print release
on a title they expect to do well, and
other times they'll do a print run after a
book hits so many sales in electronic
format.
One
other option: If you have a PDF + EBOOK Pro plan
on your
book at Pressbooks, you have access to a free cover generator that will automatically generate a print
book cover
formatted to complicated printers» specifications.
Since the Alex supports EPUB (with and without Adobe DRM), HTML, PDF, and TXT eBook
formats out of the box, users can load eBooks from
other stores as long as the registered Adobe ID
on the device matches the one used to purchase the
books.
I learned how to do it myself but there's a lot of
other authors sharing how they do the interior
formatting on print
books through Scrivener, which is a steep learning curve.
An average email, depending
on each reviewer's conditions, will have your
books title and genre, the
format your
book is available in, when the
book will be available in
other formats or print, what
format they usually like, summary of your
book, and anything more that they require.
On the up side, you only have to
format your
book once, and they will re-
format it for the
other devices for you.
This
book was inspired by and adapted from several earlier posts
on this blog and is now available in paperback and
on Kindle, Nook, Kobo, Scribd, and
other formats.
If you receive a bad review
on Amazon or Goodreads etc for
formatting, editing or proofing errors it can look really bad to
other readers wanting to read your
book!
D. «E-
book» means an electronically
formatted book designed to be read
on a computer, a handheld device, or
other electronic devices capable of visually displaying E-books.
Nook series: Nooks are based
on the e-Pub file
format thus making it possible to download e-
books from many
other stores (including Google
Books, Kobo and Sony store).
Pressbooks is a self - service platform you can use to make
book files in the
formats you need to publish in all the ebookstores (Kindle and
others) and through print -
on - demand venues such as IngramSpark, Lightning Source and CreateSpace.
They have their own eBook
format, which makes it impossible to buy
books from
other stores and load them
on the device.
Warshaw talked about some of the reasons why there isn't as much focus
on digital content for teen readers since a lot of the non-fiction
format doesn't come through as easily in ebooks as it does for
other types of
books.
By converting Word doc to the eBook
format, you can access your favorite
books on iPhone, iPad and
other eBook readers.
The ADE ePub
format used
on Sony and many
other readers generates a default page number scheme based loosely
on 1024 characters of the
book per page number.
The Kobo eReading service is built
on an open platform, allowing consumers to read eBooks from
other stores that use the ePub
format — plus read PDF documents, and
books.
Readers enjoy the ability to: (1) Purchase PDF e-
books (
other formats may be available depending
on the author) and either download them to a device or read them directly online; (2) Connect and interact with e-book authors; (3) Join the site's chat forum and start hot topic and / or chapter discussions with authors and fellow readers; and (4) Accumulate their own library of purchased
books.
Perhaps an announcement that only
books made available for purchase to libraries in * all *
formats,
on an equitable basis, will be considered eligible for the Newbery and Caldecott medals in 2013 would get the attention of RH, Penguin, and the
others.