by Joel Friedlander | Sep 15, 2011 | E-Books & Readers, Self-Publishing
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 | May 27, 2011 | E-Books & Readers, Self-Publishing
The new world of e-book publishing promises almost-instant gratification at virtually no cost. It seems that authors with a manuscript in hand can glide nonstop to great sales, wealth and fame, probably before lunch. At least that’s the way it seems sometimes....
by Joel Friedlander | May 25, 2011 | E-Books & Readers, Self-Publishing
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...
by Joel Friedlander | Apr 30, 2011 | Book Design, E-Books & Readers
by Paula Hendricks We’re lucky today to have a guest post from my friend Paula Hendricks. I met Paula when she was doing a term as president of the Bay Area Independent Publishers Association (BAIPA). Paula, who is the co-author of, among other titles, the Tire...
by Joel Friedlander | Apr 25, 2011 | E-Books & Readers, Marketing, Self-Publishing
Pricing of e-books is a constant source of discussion online, and we’ve seen the rebellions in the Kindle store when publishers were allowed to start setting their own prices last year. Some books went up in price, as traditional publishers tried to bring e-book...
