You’ve probably already considered reaching your readers with books and ebooks but don’t overlook the fast-growing audience for audiobooks. And here is another reason to consider audiobooks. “Audible.com, the world’s largest seller and producer of digital spoken-word entertainment, announced yesterday that it has established a $20 million fund for authors. Authors who sign up...
I have just updated the Ebook Publishing Quick Reference Card (PDF). This is an excellent resource for indie authors and ebook publishers who would like to be able to see at a glance: The Main Ebook Formats The Major Ebook Stores Ebook Royalties Chart for Each Store Ebook Aggregator Comparison Chart (including 6 major...
Apple’s has launched a new ebook creation tool, iBooks Author. It is a Mac-only software application for creating media-rich, interactive books for the iPad. This new app was launched by Apple’s Phil Schiller at a special event in New York’s Guggenheim Museum on Thursday 19th January. Apple also announced the release of iBooks 2,...
Online ebook piracy remains a major concern for ebook publishers just as it is for the music industry. Without some form of protection it is very easy for people to copy and share ebook files with others. That’s where Digital Rights Management (DRM) can help. Digital Rights Management is technology which can be embedded...
Would you like to learn how to publish an ebook for the Kindle, Nook, iPad and other ebook readers? Would you like to know how to get your ebooks into Amazon’s Kindle Store, B&N Nook Books, Apple’s iBookstore and other major ebook stores? My new guide explains how to do it. Click here for...
Update to this post: The new KindleGen 2 and Kindle Previewer with Kindle Format 8 (KF8) support are now available for download. See http://amzn.to/kf-8 Amazon have announced a new Kindle Format 8 with HTML5 Support and will be introducing a bunch of enhancements to their Kindle Publisher Tools and Publishing Guidelines. “KF8 is the...
To do any job well you need to use appropriate tools… and self-publishing is no different. While there are many software applications that can assist you during the process of writing and publishing your manuscript some of the applications are expensive, costing hundreds of dollars each. So what if you are operating on a...
If you are active on Twitter then perhaps you have already seen some excellent lists of twitter hashtags for writers. One good example is Jon Reed’s list of writer hashtags. If however you want to use Twitter to find information relating to ebook publishing, especially as it applies to indie authors, there are some...
There are so many different ebook formats in existence that trying to get your ebook into every possible format isn’t practical. However it is a good idea to make your ebook available in the four most popular ebook formats. But first a little history. Ebooks have already been around for a while. In the...
This week I launched my new guide to (reading) ebooks, “The Beginner’s Guide to Ebooks“. While this is not a guide to writing ebooks it will be helpful to those writers who don’t really understand about ebooks. The book explains the answers to many questions people have including: What is an ebook? What ebook...
