I was uploading a client’s mobi file into their KDP account the other day and discovered Amazon had implemented a handy spell check routine that runs as part of the upload process. It’s a great idea and should address one of the more annoying issues we see in eBooks (not to mention apps for political [...]
This is a guest post by Cathy S. Lewis. Cathy is president of CS Lewis & Co. Publicists, a boutique publicity firm that’s been turning authors into newsmakers and generating book sales since 1994. You have a great idea for a book. Everyone has been urging you for years to write it. Your concept is [...]
The new eBook Mobile Banking is a good example of business self-publishing: valuable content, professionally presented, done so in a way that is not overly promotional. I’m not in banking nor do I work in the telecom industry so I found the information helpful in understanding the issues and opportunities raised by the spread of [...]
The Association of American Publishers and the Book Industry Study Group released results of the annual BookStats survey of 1,500 publishers and the numbers are impressive. Here are some of the key statistics for 2012 relative to 2011: eBook fiction sales up 42% to $1.8 billion eBook non-fiction sales up 22% to $484.2 million eBooks [...]
This is a guest post by D’vorah Lansky. D’vorah recently finished her 11th book and joins us today to share one of the tips from 21 Ways to Launch a Successful Virtual Book Tour. I’d like to thank David for graciously hosting me, as a guest blogger, in celebration of the launch of my [...]
Anyone writing blog posts or articles—for your own website or your employer’s—should read this book. I’m not a lawyer but my sense is that the author covers all the key issues you need to be familiar with to stay out of trouble. And if you do like to push the envelope, The Legal Side of [...]
Kindle Worlds is Marketing-Like Being a James Patterson Co-Author, Using iBooks Author or Sampling Music
This week Amazon announced another innovative market-making initiative: rights holders can offer writers the opportunity to make money writing books based on their stories and characters. Fan fiction is the term used to describe the writing Amazon is after and the most often cited example of success in this category is Fifty Shades of Grey. [...]