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I Can Get It for You Wholesale — Pricing Your Book

by David Kudler on November 7, 2019 5 Comments

I was asked recently what factors affect the price that I give a book. Here are the considerations I take into account when pricing a book.

Have I Got a Book for You! Compelling Book Descriptions – Part 2

by David Kudler on October 7, 2019 2 Comments

In Part 1, we discussed how to hook your readers with book descriptions. Now, let’s talk about how to tease your readers once they’re hooked.

Have I Got a Book for You! Compelling Book Descriptions – Part 1

by David Kudler on October 3, 2019 5 Comments

You’ve gotten a potential reader to visit your book’s product page. Now it’s time to seal the deal. How? Your book description, that’s how.

You CAN Tell an (e)Book by Its Cover

by David Kudler on August 29, 2019 23 Comments

“You can’t tell a book by its cover” holds true in most of our lives, one place where it doesn’t, ironically, is in publishing.

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

by Joel Friedlander on July 25, 2019 1 Comment

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!