by Joel Friedlander | Jun 8, 2015 | Book Production, E-Books & Readers, Self-Publishing
By Tracy Atkins Tracy is deep in the ebook preparation and formatting world, since he runs the operations at our e-commerce site, Book Design Templates where we sell predesigned ebook templates and provide formatting, conversion, and uploading services to authors....
by Joel Friedlander | Apr 20, 2015 | Book Design, Self-Publishing
For the last two years, since the launch of BookDesignTemplates, we’ve been getting requests for specialty book templates. And I can see why. We originally launched with only 6 pre-designed book templates for Microsoft Word. They were best suited to novels,...
by Joel Friedlander | Dec 18, 2014 | Self-Publishing, Writing
Thank you! When I announced my new book on Tuesday and asked you to go pre-order the book, you responded. Here’s the proof: Yep, The Self-Publisher’s Ultimate Resource Guide rocketed to #1 and #2 in two of my target categories. Just with preorders. Only a...
by Joel Friedlander | Sep 28, 2014 | Self-Publishing, Social Media
Welcome to this issue of the Carnival of the Indies blog carnival. This issue is for September, 2014. We welcome your submissions on topics related to writing, self-publishing, book design or marketing books. A collection of outstanding articles recently posted to...
by Joel Friedlander | Sep 15, 2014 | Cover Design, E-Books & Readers
Welcome to the e-Book Cover Design Awards. This edition is for submissions during August, 2014. This month we received: 90 covers in the Fiction category 11 covers in the Nonfiction category Comments, Award Winners, and Gold Stars I’ve added comments (JF: ) to many of...