David Kudler

David Kudler is a Contributing Writer for TheBookDesigner.com. He is also an author, an editor and an ebook designer.

David blogs for the Huffington Post and is also a past president of the Bay Area Independent Publisher’s Association (BAIPA).

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Fun with Formats: mobi/Kindle

by David Kudler on January 16, 2020 5 Comments

Reading ebooks on a Kindle means varies a lot more than you may realize. Understanding those variations a little is important for an ebook publisher.

by David Kudler on December 12, 2019 2 Comments

This is an update of a very popular post I wrote a few years back; it adds some updated info and refines some of the techniques I used back then.

by David Kudler on November 7, 2019 5 Comments

I was asked recently what factors affect the price that I give a book. Here are the considerations I take into account when pricing a book.

by David Kudler on October 7, 2019 2 Comments

In Part 1, we discussed how to hook your readers with book descriptions. Now, let’s talk about how to tease your readers once they’re hooked.

by David Kudler on October 3, 2019 5 Comments

You’ve gotten a potential reader to visit your book’s product page. Now it’s time to seal the deal. How? Your book description, that’s how.

“You can’t tell a book by its cover” holds true in most of our lives, one place where it doesn’t, ironically, is in publishing.

One of the most powerful tools for marketing your book is reader reviews. Here are a few dos and don’ts for getting reviews.

It’s been a couple of years, so let’s revisit online ebook conversion tools available through the major retailers and aggregators.

We sure spend a lot of time finding just the right fonts for our print books. And we want our ebooks to look just as good, don’t we?