By David Kudler A while back, I wrote a review of the online ebook conversion tools available through the major retailers and aggregators. 1 It’s been a couple of years, and I thought it would be a good idea to revisit them and share any new findings. I was surprised...
By David Kudler Garamond. Helvetica. Times. Comic Sans. Everyone loves fonts, right?[i] Well, not everyone — but we sure spend a lot of time and energy making sure that we find just the right ones for our print books. And we want our ebooks to look just as good, don’t...
By David Kudler I’ve been asked a few times recently about who owns the copyright to a book that’s been uploaded to Amazon’s KDP. The answer is, as it almost always is, the author. It’s important to understand the difference between copyright and a license. Copyright...
By David Kudler Recently, PublishDrive announced a new distribution plan that I found intriguing.i For the past year, PublishDrive (PD) has been one of the ebook aggregators I most often recommend to clients, along with Draft2Digital and Smashwords, and so it seemed...
By David Kudler You learn something new every day! In this case, I recently had to revise my understanding of how Amazon handles keywords. I’ve talked about keywords before; they’re an essential piece of metadata that determines how easy it is for the right reader to...
