The ebook revolution is over, the major battles have been fought, and the ebook format is here to stay. Yes, there are still a few skirmishes on the sidelines in trade publishing. Traditional publishing houses fought in vain, trying to protect their privileged position, profits, and champagne lunches they held as their right for so…
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Typos in Kindle ebooks can happen. Perfection is difficult, no matter how carefully you prepare your book for publishing. However, some help is at hand. And it comes from a surprising source: Amazon. KDP to the rescue I was delighted to get an email from Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) pointing out that it had found…
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Are you thinking about how to translate your book? Translating a book for self-published authors is a challenge. Of course, the biggest hurdle is usually the cost. The market price for a professional translator for a full-length novel is probably out of financial reach for most self-published authors. Babelcube for authors and publishers An interesting…
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Do you know that you can add pictures and images to ebooks? You can, and it is very simple. The easiest way to add images in ebooks is by using Microsoft Word or almost any word processor. Your images can be in color. But depending on what device a reader uses, your images may change…
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Book sales fall for self-published ebooks, in particular. But Why? After years of steady growth, ebook sales for indie authors have started to hit a problem. The most recent data from Author Earnings in their latest quarterly report gives ample proof of the drop off in self-publishing sales and earnings. While the data is clear, the…
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An Amazon book review cannot be posted for free ebooks? Correct. You might have missed this very quiet yet extremely nasty change to Amazon book review policies. If you are still giving away free Kindle ebooks in the hope of gaining new reviews, then you might want to reconsider. The new Amazon review rules If you…
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Old-fashioned self-publishing is definitely not out of fashion. You might think that self-publishing is only about Amazon, Apple, B&N, ebooks, and social media. It’s also easy to believe that the only way to succeed is to buy Facebook Ads or Bookbub slots. Yet it’s easy to forget that many authors succeeded at self-publishing well before…
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Media exposure of rampant Google Books and ebook piracy has been going on for so long now. One would think that Google could have taken some simple remedial measures by now. But no, judging from this article in the NYT, Rousting the Book Pirates From Google, not a lot has changed. Google is still doing very…
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Any author publishing with Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) knows about free Kindle ebook promotion. You can offer your ebook for free for five days during your ninety-day enrollment in KDP Select. Some may not know that free ebooks for Kindle have now become another little industry in itself. There are many, many sites on…
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Self-publishing is evolving and suffering from growing pains. The self-publishing train wreck was always an accident waiting to happen. Although there has been no crashing noise and screaming sirens as yet, all the signs point to the fact that the self-publishing train wreck is very close to happening. In recent and not so recent times, several…
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