by Joel Friedlander | Mar 2, 2015 | E-Books & Readers, Interviews
Ed: Interest in ebooks continues to spread as more institutions and potential users of digital information attempt to put these technologies to good use. When I was queried recently by Nancy Herther from Information Today’s Online Searcher enewsletter, I turned...
by Joel Friedlander | Feb 23, 2015 | E-Books & Readers, Interviews
Long-time readers will remember the interviews I did with BookBaby.com’s original leader, Brian Felsen. These intereviews were key to really understanding how BookBaby saw the ebook market they entered as distributors back in 2011, and how they planned to make...
by Joel Friedlander | Jan 4, 2015 | E-Books & Readers, Editorial, Marketing, Self-Publishing, Social Media
As a new year commences and the team here at The Book Designer finish our holiday break, I thought this would be a great opportunity to offer a look back on the most popular posts written by our contributing writers during the past year. Frances Caballo Facebook Ads:...
by Jason Matthews | Dec 17, 2014 | E-Books & Readers, Self-Publishing
By Jason Matthews Hard to believe it’s only been seven years since Amazon released the Kindle. It happened in November of 2007, and while ebooks existed before then, that was a pivotal event for the future of publishing. More specifically, for the future of...
by Joel Friedlander | Nov 10, 2014 | Legal Issues, Self-Publishing
Learning about book publishing can be challenging when it’s all new to you. There’s a lot to absorb just to learn how all the pieces fit together. As in most fields, many people ask pretty much the same questions. That’s why I like to dig into my mailbag once in...