By David Kudler The majority of people who read ebooks (in the English speaking world, at least) buy them on Amazon. That means, most likely, reading them on a Kindle. But what “reading them on a Kindle” means varies a lot more than you may realize. And...
By David Kudler So I was going to pull together a post looking at the specific challenges of designing a cover for an ebook (as opposed to a print or audiobook edition), but a client presented me with a challenge that I thought I’d share with you. This is going to be...
It wasn’t hard to predict that ePub would start to become a common output option on more and more consumer-level software programs. As it is, there are word processors and layout programs that convert your documents to ePub books, complete with linked table of...
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 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...
