by Joel Friedlander | Apr 30, 2010 | Self-Publishing, Social Media
I’m pretty excited. Not quite as excited as the day I went down to East West Bookstore on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan to see my book Body Types on a bookstore shelf for the first time. That was pretty awesome, even if Jill had to rearrange the stock a bit to show...
by Joel Friedlander | Apr 28, 2010 | The Joel Friedlander Archives
A few weeks ago Smashwords made it possible to get self-published books into Apple’s iBookstore for sale on the iPad, and from what I read there are already several thousand Smashwords titles in the iBookstore. Some of Apple’s approved content aggregators...
by Joel Friedlander | Mar 9, 2010 | Book Design, Interior Design, Self-Publishing
One of the projects I’m working on is a memoir of growing up in Johannesburg, South Africa. It’s a very personal but fascinating look at childhood in another time and place, and I’ll talk more about this book when it’s published, but it’s...
by Joel Friedlander | Mar 1, 2010 | The Joel Friedlander Archives
Click to enlarge We haven’t seen much of the Apple iPad yet, and the screen shots we have seen show that the fonts for the Apple iPad are perhaps not all they might be.What do we know? Apple, as far as I know, has issued only the one press release on the day of...
by Joel Friedlander | Feb 9, 2010 | Book Design, Writing
I’ve been talking off and on for the last few months about the eventual demise of the book as the primary conveyer of what we probably should start calling “text.” When E.M. Ginger said that we probably haven’t seen a book on an e-Reader, and...
