How To Write, Publish & Sell Ebooks Online
Amazon announced today their thinnest and lightest Kindle ever, the Kindle Oasis, and there is no need to worry about the batteries running out!
Kindle Oasis is the eighth generation of Kindle.
In addition to its incredibly thin and light design, it comes with a special leather charging cover that Amazon claims will let you read for months without plugging in.
Priced at for $289.99, Kindle Oasis is now available for pre-order in the United States and will start shipping in the coming weeks.
Here is a quick roundup of some of the latest digital publishing news for early April 2016.
At Publishers Weekly, a survey of independent digital-first publishers reveals a wide array of growth strategies.
Interviews with these five independent publishers show a range of publishing practices with the e-books they publish and highlight the ways in which they promote and market their lists.
The digital predictions report is out and The Bookseller has an interesting article about it. “Deloitte expects companies to adopt a number of cognitive technologies this year, including machine learning, natural language processing and speech recognition, all of which could have a place in publishing, particularly in the educational sector.”
On the subject of virtual reality, they had this to say, “(It has) much potential when it comes to giving a remote consumer a detailed idea of what a physical space or product looks like… So what if you could give readers a virtual reality tour of Narnia, or bring intricate book covers to life?”
Read more on how emerging digital technology may impact publishing.
In an article at The Independent Publishing Magazine, Antonio Tooley explains the ways a social media publishing calendar can make the promotion of your book much more successful. He also provides you with practical tips that will help you build such a calendar.
As an indie author it takes some keeping up with all of the different book formats. First there are various book sizes, then there are multiple formats for ebooks and audiobooks. Over at my main author blog I have posted a new Infographic designed to provide a quick overview of the most common formats.
“It’s that season when people love to post resolutions and predictions for the year ahead. Along with others in the publishing industry I have been reviewing “where we’re at” and “where we’re heading” as an industry in 2015.
When considering where we’re at it’s helpful to remember just how far self-publishing has come in the past decade. It’s just over 7 years since Amazon launched the first Kindle eReader (in November 2007). It’s also more than 11 years since I launched my web site, Publish Your Own Ebooks. What a journey it’s been and what amazing changes we’ve witnessed and been part of!”
Read the entire post at my Author’s Blog here
Publishing house and content marketing agency Raconteur Media recently surveyed almost 500 authors, journalists, editors, students, and media and marketing professionals, asking them who is the world’s greatest storyteller? The resulting Infographic is a tribute to many talented storytellers who have lived throughout the ages.
As Raconteur explains on their blog, “…we wanted to take a moment to celebrate storytelling as we know and love it – storytelling that comes from people, whether they are writers or actors or directors or poets or musicians.”
The respondents’ answers spanned continents and genres, and crossed mediums and disciplines. 53% chose living storytellers, while 47% chose storytellers who have passed away.
The top 5 storytellers in the survey were:
Click to read Raconteur’s post on this.
Click to see the full Infographic.
