I just received an email from Ron Pramschufer at www.selfpublishing.com regarding a new player in the Self Publishing business called Kbuuk. Seems that they have developed apps that will enable you to design a cover for your book, upload your file and have it converted to an epub. They also have other tools for marketing but you have to subscribe … [Read more...]
A number of authors have asked us if we can produce children’s books for the eBook market. The answer to that is yes we can but there are a few things would be authors need to know. First of all, what is considered to be a children’s book? A children’s book usually consists of pages of colorful illustrations with text. The text will often … [Read more...]
According to the Book Business blog and GalleyCat website (and probably a few score of other “hot media sources”), “Amazon is the most lucrative ebook sales channel.” This is news? But… …notice they didn’t say the “best ebook sales channel” or the “smartest ebook sales channel?” Nope. In today’s marketplace Amazon is the … [Read more...]
SelfPublishing.com offers a professional and affordable option to have your printed book edition converted to the two most popular e-book formats. Once your conversion is completed, you’ll receive an ePub and a Mobi edition of your e-book. You can then go directly to Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other retailers to have your e-editions listed … [Read more...]
There’s No Such Thing as a Free E-Book: Cautions About the Free iBook Author Software Apple recently released its much-anticipated iBooks Author software. This software is available free of charge and will give the would-be self publisher the necessary tools to output their own e-books. At face value this sounds like a good deal. Until you do a … [Read more...]
Just last week I had a customer email me regarding a job I had recently done which was rejected when he tried uploading it to iTunes. Not two days later I had another customer who had her job rejected from BookBaby. BookBaby actually takes files submitted to them and uploads them to other stores such as iTunes and B&N. This latter job had been … [Read more...]
In the past few weeks I’ve had a number of ebook conversions that have experienced issues. Customers have tried to upload their files to various ebook sites only to find that their ebook is rejected for some reason or other. Now I’m extremely conscientious about the ebooks I create. If there is an issue with a file, I’ll bend over … [Read more...]
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