Over the last few months I’ve discussed preparing your manuscript and your images for conversion into ebook form. This month, I’m going to look more closely at a subject that I’ve touched on: choosing an ebook conversion tool. Just to review, I...
Like lots of folks, I was excited when the smartphone first appeared as a real device that ordinary people could use. So excited that I bought a very early smartphone, a Motorola BlackJack, only to return it within a week. It was simply useless. That’s why, when...
Because Apple’s iBooks platform has very little marketing behind it, you may not know that it is the second-largest ebook retailer in the world, and a very robust second at that. Savvy authors know that having their ebooks available on multiple platforms will...
Do you issue updates on your ebooks? What’s an ebook update? It’s when you’ve made minor corrections, additions, or deletions to an ebook that’s already been published, and you then update the file so that anyone who has purchased it can get...
By Shelley Sturgeon (@ShelleySturgeon) A couple of years ago I wrote an article for The Book Designer about some of the options that were available to authors of e-books for distributing their e-books through bookstores and at booksignings (E-books For Real: E-book...