by Joel Friedlander | Sep 15, 2011 | The Joel Friedlander Archives
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 Joel Friedlander | Jul 6, 2011 | E-Books & Readers, Self-Publishing
by Guido Henkel (@GuidoHenkel) I’m please to have an article today from self-published author and experienced e-book formatter Guido Henkel. Guido and I met on Twitter and that’s why you get to read his thoughts on this important aspect of e-publishing....
by Joel Friedlander | May 17, 2011 | The Joel Friedlander Archives
This past weekend we had our monthly meeting of the Bay Area Independent Publishers Association (BAIPA). The featured speaker was Mark Coker, founder and CEO of Smashwords.com, the independent e-book distributor. Even before Mark got started on his presentation, even...
by Joel Friedlander | Apr 12, 2011 | E-Books & Readers
It hardly seems possible that it’s been a year since all the mystery surrounding Apple’s announcement of the iPad was finally made real, and troops of people began filing out of Apple stores everywhere carrying little white bags full of the tablets. After...
by Joel Friedlander | Mar 17, 2011 | Book Design, E-Books & Readers
For some time we’ve been moaning about how bad most ebooks look, the poor typography, the feeble attempts to make ebooks look like printed books, which they do not resemble in any meaningful way. The litany of complaints from typographers and book designers...
