E-books | E-books
Aug.27.2012
In an ocean of self-published titles, two questions surface: How can readers find quality e-books, and how can authors of quality e-books find readers?
Before Amazon’s Kindle changed the face of electronic publishing, in 2006, 51,237 self-published titles were printed as physical books that year,...
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Aug.23.2012
In the September 2012 issue of Writer's Chronicle magazine, Ronald Goldfarb updates us on the lawsuits the U.S. Justice Department has taken against five major publishers and Apple for price fixing on e-books.
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Three of the five have settled with the...
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Aug.10.2012
The French reading public hasn't become enamored of e-books to the degree U.S. readers have. In fact, from 2003 to 2011 print book sales in France increased by 6.5%. The reason? The French government subsidizes book stores there. This says a lot about both the value France puts on tradition and...
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Aug.04.2012
E-book lending is one of the latest innovations of the digital publishing world. Learn more - good and bad - about that here from Bob Mayer.
In general it’s always a good thing to be the “first” at something. Being part of something on the ground floor tends to give you an advantage. This is...
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Aug.02.2012
The Brit press usually has a hardboiled way of seeing everything, but I wholeheartedly agree with this piece - it's all about the illusions and pitfalls of e-marketing for writers.
"Authors – become a success through building an 'internet platform'!". For almost five years we've been subjected to...
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Jul.30.2012
NOWHERE TO HIDE is in the chute at the various e-stores. The process isn’t immediate, so it’s not everywhere yet. Recently, Kobo has opened its “e-doors” to authors, so I’ve decided to give that a try with this book.
When you’re traditionally...
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Jul.09.2012
One of the more common reasons I've heard for downloading a copy is the "just looking" one. On the one hand, I get this. One of the things you can do in a brick and mortar store is wander over to a chair, sit down, open the book, and start reading. Read the blurb, the critical praise, find out...
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Jul.08.2012
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I usually take a long walk each day after my writing routine, and when it's not too hot outside I listen to music - high energy stuff - it quickens my step, makes me shake a leg, as the saying goes. In the summer, as now, I listen to podcasts of various sorts -...
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Jul.08.2012
There are absolutely authors out there who can produce quality work all by themselves.
I'm not one of them.
There's a part of me that wonders if there's some accidental modesty or an attempt to make an author seem so mysterious afoot in the sometimes general lack of awareness about what a...
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Jul.07.2012
There's that great tongue in cheek saying, and I think it applies wonderfully to the idea of DRM, that "fool proof plans just make for better fools."
When it comes to E-book piracy, one of the ideas publishers have come up with is the DRM. DRM (Digital Restrictions Management) is more easily...
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