Tag: ebook
Preparing Your Manuscript With an eBook in Mind
Guest Expert: Jonathan Scott
We work all the time with authors and publishers, turning their new or existing books into eBook formats, but so far I've yet to receive a manuscript that's been correctly prepared for the process.
When I say that, many prospective eBook authors or publishers cringe, thinking I'm going to ask them to do something esoteric and difficult. And after all, they say, isn't that what they're paying me for?
But the truth is, no matter how you choose Read more [...]
When Will the eBook Expressway Explode Sales for Nonfiction – as It Has for Fiction?
Guest Expert: Laurel Marshfield
eBook Writer
In the mid-1960s, the Beatles recorded “Paperback Writer,” a song that could be said to mirror the controlled frenzy currently surrounding eBooks. Why so?
With its good-natured satire, the song lends a soundtrack to the hopes that many authors have for this new publishing medium. And if the Beatles had written their hit tune today, surely they would have titled it “eBook Writer.”
While the Fab Four here underscore the uncertainty Read more [...]
Top New Year’s Resolutions for Book Authors
Guest Expert: Dana Lynn Smith
It's that time of year again, when our thoughts turn to the future and what we want to accomplish in the upcoming year. As you make your New Year's resolutions, don't forget to include resolutions for your book and your business.
Here are five action steps to help you sell more books in the coming year:
1. Define your mission.
Authors define success in many ways, whether it’s sharing their story, inspiring or entertaining others, earning money, or promoting Read more [...]
Q&A: How to Launch an eBook
On 7th of December, we had an interesting and informative webinar about 'How to Launch an eBook'. Our panel consisted of D’vorah Lansky (M.Ed. and Author of Book Marketing Made Easy: Simple Strategies for Selling Your Nonfiction Book Online), Phyllis Zimbler Miller (co-founder of Miller Mosaic Power Marketing) and Penny C. Sansevieri (CEO of Author Marketing Experts, Inc.).
We answered a lot of questions but still had a few unanswered. This post answers those questions. If you have any further Read more [...]
The Top 3 Things You Should Keep In Mind When Selling Your Ebook
Guest: Simon Cheshire
Some say that publishing is dead, that mainstream book production is fast going the way of the dodo, and that we should all be in a state of cultural panic. Others say that there's never been a better time to be a writer, and that we're living in a publishing renaissance on a par with the days of Gutenburg.
I'm not quite sure I agree with either scenario. Making money from writing is now, frankly, every bit as hard as it's always been (and I've been in the business almost Read more [...]
What To Keep In Mind When Publishing eBooks
Guest: Andrea Susan Glass
According to Forrester Research, digital book sales tripled to $966 million in 2010 and are set to almost triple again by 2015. Last summer, Amazon said sales of ebooks for its Kindle reader had far eclipsed hardcover book sales. In about 2007, Amazon introduced its Kindle ereader and Barnes and Noble soon followed with the Nook. Then iPhones got an app to read ebooks, and next it was the iPad and other copycats. You can even read an ebook on your PC or Mac with the free Read more [...]
3 Steps to e-Book Cover Design Success
Guest Expert: Joel Friedlander
The move to e-books has brought with it a new challenge for book cover designers, amateur and professional.
The first challenge, of course, if you've been designing book covers for any time, is to understand exactly what an e-book cover really is.
Unlike print books, which we can pick up and examine, e-books don't exist in any physical reality other than as a computer file. So how can they have a cover?
And since an e-book is simply a computer file with Read more [...]
Is the eBook Expressway Every Author’s Back Road — to Big Bucks & a Bona Fide Writing Career?
Guest Expert: Laurel Marshfield
While rarely noticed, there’s an instructive parallel between people who yearn to be famous authors and those who yearn to be famous actors.
The mainstream literary scene, like Hollywood, is constellated by twenty-five or so big-name authors with literary-auction-level fame (and among actors, by twenty-five or so who possess mega-watt star status).
Anything these two dozen people write or act in will sell extremely well, because their fame tends to self-perpetuate: Read more [...]
EEEEEE-books!! 5 Top Questions
A short intro to digital media for authors who haven’t got a clue
Guest Expert: Lynn Serafinn
I’m a fairly techie person. I’m on the computer so much I might has well have a microprocessor implanted into my brain so I didn’t have to sit at my desk all the time. But although I’m pretty expert with the Internet, social media, WordPress, web pages, etc., there are two areas in which I’m a bit of a late bloomer. One is mobile technology (I’ll be talking more about that in a later Read more [...]
