by Joel Friedlander | May 17, 2011 | The Joel Friedlander Archives
This past weekend we had our monthly meeting of the Bay Area Independent Publishers Association (BAIPA). The featured speaker was Mark Coker, founder and CEO of Smashwords.com, the independent e-book distributor. Even before Mark got started on his presentation, even...
by Joel Friedlander | Apr 8, 2011 | Book Production, E-Books & Readers
by Chris O’Byrne Have you been stumped by e-book formatting, frustrated trying to do your own conversions? Chris O’Byrne is a frequent commenter here and has provided some in-depth help for other readers on questions with Adobe InDesign. One comment in...
by Joel Friedlander | Mar 28, 2011 | Marketing, Self-Publishing, Social Media
It’s almost exactly ten weeks since I decided to take the plunge into my blog archives to see if I could wrestle an actual book from its depths. If you’ve followed along, you’ve seen me take these steps: Find ways to create a book from blog articles....
by Joel Friedlander | Mar 7, 2011 | E-Books & Readers, Self-Publishing, Social Media
Last week I wrote an article with a Kindle uploading mini-tutorial using my Self-Publisher’s Quick & Easy Guide to Copyright as an example. In the comments to the post, one reader asked some questions about ebook conversions: I’m curious to know (a)...
by Joel Friedlander | Feb 5, 2011 | E-Books & Readers, Social Media
Ebooks are on everyone’s mind, it seems. Next week I’ll have at least two articles on ebooks and the ebook business, including an interview I conducted on Friday with Joshua Tallent of Ebookarchitects. It’s 32 minutes packed with information you can...