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Publishing Your Book Is Changing on Amazon Kindle

by Lee Foster on September 5, 2019 23 Comments

There’s nothing like actually going through the publishing process on Amazon Kindle, again, to refresh yourself on our rapidly changing self-pub world.

Filed Under: Contributing Writers, Self-Publishing Tagged With: Amazon Kindle, Lee Foster, Self-Publishing

Now You Seem Them… — A CSS Trick for New and Old Kindles

by Joel Friedlander on July 25, 2019 2 Comments

We’re going to look at older Kindles, Amazon’s Look Inside feature, and the browser-based Kindle Cloud Reader all deal with the table of contents pages in standard ePub3-based ebooks — and to make it so they work on both new (KF8) and old (MOBI7) Kindles!

Filed Under: Contributing Writers, E-Books & Readers Tagged With: Amazon Kindle, David Kudler, ebook design, ePub, Kindle e-books, Mobi

Kindle’s New Bookerly Font and Other Typography Features

by Joel Friedlander on June 22, 2015 24 Comments

Kindle’s New Bookerly Font and Other Typography Features looks at recent changes for ebooks and e-readers

Filed Under: Book Design, E-Books & Readers, Self-Publishing Tagged With: Adobe, Amazon Kindle, book design, Bookerly, Carol Twombly, Chaparral, ebook, fonts

ePub, ePub Everywhere, What's a Blogger to Do?

by Joel Friedlander on September 15, 2011 10 Comments

ePub, ePub Everywhere, What’s a Blogger to Do? Soliciting reviews of several programs that create ePub files for use in e-Books

Filed Under: E-Books & Readers, Self-Publishing Tagged With: Amazon Kindle, Apple iPad, Apple Pages, BookCreator, e-book readers, e-books, eBooks, ePub, iStudioPublisher, Legendmaker, Mobi, PDF to ePub Converter, self publishing, Sony Reader

Independent Publishing: That's Evolution!

by Joel Friedlander on August 24, 2011 23 Comments

Independent Publishing: That’s Evolution! by Thomas Burchfield and how Scribd.com, Smashwords.com, Bookbaby.com and ebookarchitects.com helped

Filed Under: E-Books & Readers, Self-Publishing Tagged With: Amazon Kindle, BookBaby, ebookarchitects, publishing a book, Scribd, self publishing, Smashwords, Thomas Burchfield

e-Book Cover Design Awards: Do We Need Them?

by Joel Friedlander on August 23, 2011 66 Comments

e-Book Cover Design Awards: Do We Need Them? In which the author proposes a monthly e-book design award with entries from blog readers to improve the art form

Filed Under: E-Books & Readers, Self-Publishing Tagged With: Amazon Kindle, book cover design, book design, e-book covers, e-books, ebook, ebook reader

TheBookDesigner Blog Stats and Coming Attractions

by Joel Friedlander on June 14, 2011 14 Comments

TheBookDesigner Blog Stats and Coming Attractions including articles on e-book distribution, e-reader reviews, new options for digital printing and more

Filed Under: E-Books & Readers, Social Media Tagged With: Amazon Kindle, blog stats, digital printing, e-books, ePub, Google Reader, iBooks, iPad, Kobo, Nook, smartphone, Sony Reader, Stanza

Smartphone e-Reader App Reviews: Google Books by Google

by Joel Friedlander on May 25, 2011 3 Comments

In the first review in this series I looked at Stanza, the versatile (but doomed?) e-book reader app for iOs devices: iPod Touch, iPhone and iPad. Today I’ll look at the Google Books App recently launched by Google to support their new Google eBookstore. Google says they have over 3,000,000 books available, and it could […]

Filed Under: E-Books & Readers, Self-Publishing Tagged With: Amazon Kindle, Apple iPad, apps, e-book readers, e-books, Google Books, Google eBookstore, iTunes

Mark Coker of Smashwords at BAIPA: Indie Revolution in Full Swing

by Joel Friedlander on May 17, 2011 29 Comments

Mark Coker of Smashwords at BAIPA: Indie Revolution in Full Swing as the e-book distributor continues its fantastic growth fueled by indie authors

Filed Under: Book Production, E-Books & Readers, Self-Publishing Tagged With: Amazon Kindle, Apple iPad, Barnes & Noble Nook, e-books, ePub, iBooks, iBookstore, Mark Coker, meatgrinder, Mobi, publish a book, self publishing, Smashwords

Fiction vs. Nonfiction E-Book Pricing in the Kindle Store

by Joel Friedlander on April 25, 2011 61 Comments

Fiction vs. Nonfiction E-Book Pricing in the Kindle Store and how the prices of fiction and nonfiction reflect different approaches to e-book pricing

Filed Under: E-Books & Readers, Marketing, Self-Publishing Tagged With: Amazon Kindle, e-book pricing, e-book readers, e-books, Kindle store, publish a book, self publishing

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