Ebooks

Do readers prefer short ebooks to read? Do novellas sell well? I’ll try to keep the answer short. By chance, I was looking at the Amazon Kindle Store and clicked on an ebook listed in the top twenty bestsellers. I scanned the book’s details and was surprised to note that Amazon lists the ebook as…

Ebooks have one big problem. The text usually looks plain and boring. But now, you can use beautiful typography for ebooks. It’s easy to convert your ebook manuscript into a format that will make it much more attractive for ebook buyers. Draft2digital (D2D) has been highly innovative in so many areas. For self-publishing authors, it…

Every self-publishing author wants to know how to sell ebooks online. Very often, it seems that writing a book is the easy part. Ebooks and books are everyday retail items. Like any other retail product, people need to notice them before they can buy them. But how do you get noticed if you have published…

Ebooks are convenient but, at the same time, restrictive. The ebook will never replace a real printed book. So many people have said this over the years since the introduction of the ebook by Sony and then, shortly after, by Amazon. There has never been a topic as controversial and divisive in the book publishing…

Amazon has implemented a policy that alerts publishers and readers when the Kindle ebook quality on Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) is below standard. Authors and publishers who ignore sub-standard quality issues may face negative consequences. Hopefully, this move will lessen the number of Kindle scams that have no place in self-publishing. A range of warning…

E-reader device sales are falling rapidly. Devices such as Kindle e-readers, Nook, and Kobo are all suffering from a rapid drop-off in sales. Yet, readers are still buying and reading ebooks. So, what is going on here with ebook readers and, in particular, Kindle sales? The Kindle device is in decline First, in a report…

Amazon Kindle scams are rife because they work. Forget affiliate marketing, phishing, and blog comment spam as a way to make a few bucks. Kindle scams are the easiest way to make money on the Internet, according to an article in the Washington Post. “Making money with Kindle is by far the easiest and fastest…

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…