By Lee Foster There’s nothing like actually going through the publishing process on Amazon Kindle, again, with a new book, to refresh yourself on our rapidly changing self-pub world. I had last uploaded a book and cover file two years ago. This past month I had a new...
By David Kudler So I was going to pull together a post looking at the specific challenges of designing a cover for an ebook (as opposed to a print or audiobook edition), but a client presented me with a challenge that I thought I’d share with you. This is going to be...
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...
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 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...
