by Joel Friedlander | Dec 12, 2010 | Self-Publishing, Social Media
It’s definitely brisk, and the parking lots at all the malls are full to the edges. Holiday parties are going in earnest, but here at the Book Designer we’re learning about ebooks, iPad apps, ISBNs, subsidy publishers, and the new model of publishing...
by Joel Friedlander | Dec 7, 2010 | E-Books & Readers, Legal Issues
Today saw the launch of the long-awaited Google eBookstore. It’s one of the biggest outlets for ebooks with over 3 million titles available now, including free public domain books as well as all the top sellers from big publishers you see in the Kindle store or...
by Joel Friedlander | Dec 4, 2010 | E-Books & Readers, Social Media
Do you own an iPad? Has it become a day to day tool for you? After seven months, my iPad has become part of my daily life and my workflow. But not always for the things I thought I would be doing with it when it was new. Like, reading ebooks. Media and publishing...
by Joel Friedlander | Nov 17, 2010 | E-Books & Readers, Self-Publishing
Okay, so we know the ebooks are coming. Figures from the International Digital Publishing Forum show that ebook sales tracked through the book trade skyrocketed to $119.7 million wholesale for the third quarter of 2010. And the holiday season hasn’t started....
by Joel Friedlander | Nov 2, 2010 | Marketing, Self-Publishing, Social Media
As self-publishers we usually think of books as the primary way we distribute our ideas, our stories, or our teaching—in other words, our content. Books certainly are the best delivery vehicle for long content, for collections from a variety of writers, or for...
