By David Kudler One of the most powerful tools for marketing your book is always going to be reader reviews. We all dream of a featured review in The New York Times Book Review, Publishers Weekly, or Library Journal. But other reviews — whether from influential...
By David Kudler I get asked all the time what the best way to market their ebook — preferably for free. Every author naturally wants to know how to get the word out about his or her book — and most are frightened that it’s going to cost an arm and a leg. To be honest,...
By David Kudler A while back, I wrote a review of the online ebook conversion tools available through the major retailers and aggregators. 1 It’s been a couple of years, and I thought it would be a good idea to revisit them and share any new findings. I was surprised...
By David Kudler Garamond. Helvetica. Times. Comic Sans. Everyone loves fonts, right?[i] Well, not everyone — but we sure spend a lot of time and energy making sure that we find just the right ones for our print books. And we want our ebooks to look just as good, don’t...
By David Kudler I’ve been asked a few times recently about who owns the copyright to a book that’s been uploaded to Amazon’s KDP. The answer is, as it almost always is, the author. It’s important to understand the difference between copyright and a license. Copyright...