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 16, 2010 | E-Books & Readers, Social Media
All indications are that ebook reader manufacturers are expecting this holiday season to be the elusive, much anticipated, often-predicted but never quite arrived yet, tipping point moment for the ebook industry. In this scenario, on Christmas morning millions of...
by Joel Friedlander | Sep 1, 2010 | E-Books & Readers, Self-Publishing
Does it seem like you have to be a programmer to get your book into the ePub format? Sometimes it does. As a print designer, I’ve never learned much HTML, CSS or any of the other standards that are second nature to web designers, and the foundation of ePub....
by Joel Friedlander | Aug 31, 2010 | Self-Publishing, Social Media
Whenever a discussion about self-publishing gets heated, you can be sure someone will say, “If we let just anybody publish a book, soon we’ll be buried in bad, unedited books and all the good ones will be lost in a sea of crap!” There were over...
by Joel Friedlander | Aug 24, 2010 | E-Books & Readers, Self-Publishing
In my recent blog redesign I added the “Start Here” categories on the left sidebar to make it easier to find articles with basic information about self-publishing. Each introduces a stage on the journey to publication with links from the archives of...
