by Joel Friedlander | Jun 22, 2015 | The Joel Friedlander Archives
Many ebook readers—and not just us typography nerds and designers, either—have complained about the limited font set provided with the major e-readers. Considering the vast sums that have been spent on developing these devices, it’s always seemed odd to me that...
by Joel Friedlander | Sep 15, 2011 | The Joel Friedlander Archives
It wasn’t hard to predict that ePub would start to become a common output option on more and more consumer-level software programs. As it is, there are word processors and layout programs that convert your documents to ePub books, complete with linked table of...
by Joel Friedlander | Aug 24, 2011 | E-Books & Readers, Self-Publishing
by Thomas Burchfield (@Thomburchfield) I’m glad to welcome back novelist Thomas Burchfield, who also contributed The Power of Persistence in Indie Publishing. Here’s his tale of evolving along with the whole self-publishing scene. Since I entered...
by Joel Friedlander | Aug 23, 2011 | E-Books & Readers, Self-Publishing
Book award shows abound in the publishing world, and every year in the fall you can expect to see lots of email, flyers, mailings and solicitations to enter your books into one contest or another. This subject needs a fuller examination, and I’m busy putting...
by Joel Friedlander | Jun 14, 2011 | E-Books & Readers, Social Media
Blog Stats There’s a long tradition of bloggers publishing statistics on their blogs. I like the tradition, no matter what niche you’re in, because it reflects some of the ethos behind social media. It’s been over a year since I published any stats,...