E-publishing
Beware the E-Trend? How to price your Ebook?
I came across a recent discussion on a review of Sara Gruen’s Ape House at Amazon with remarks to publishers setting the price of Kindle Ebooks to the same (if not more) than the list price of the actual hard copy book itself. For example, the list price of the hardcover book is $26.00. Amazon discounts it by 42% making it $14.99.
PubIt! by B&N Now Open
Well, we’ve been waiting all summer for Barnes & Noble to release it’s ebook publishing for the Nook, PubIt!, and today is the big day. Here’s the email blast that went out today:
Celebrate with Linda Welch
It is nice to be able to celebrate the good news of a friend, and I am very happy to say that we have reason to celebrate. The landscape of publishing is changing, in particular with the advent of the ebook, and self-publishing is increasingly becoming a viable option, and one which is beginning to grow legs as a door opener for other opportunities, as Boyd Morrison proved with his book The Ark, as was discussed in previous post Who Needs a Publisher Anyway?
Who Needs a Publisher Anyway?
Check out this article by Isia Jasiewicz from The Books Issue of Newsweek (first posted only July 30th, 2010): Boyd Morrison was finishing a Ph.D. in industrial engineering when he wrote his first novel. Five agents rejected it. Nine years later he tried again, and this time he did get an agent—after nearly three years [...]
Kindle My PC
As the market and competition starts to catch up with Amazon.com’s Kindle, it’s no surprise to see that they expanded their E-book availability beyond the Kindle device and also lowered the cost of the devices themselves .
Are You Ready to PubIt!?
B&N sent out an e-blast this week to subscribers who’d signed up for information about PubIt!, their opp for authors to e-publish and sell on the Nook, coming later this Summer!
Kindle 70% Royalty Options Goes Into Effect Today
Along with a new look to the Amazon Kindle DTP Support Screen (which no longer says it’s in beta), Amazon Kindle also launches its 70% royalty option today. Here are details from the Community forums which were posted back in early May: In January, Amazon announced details of a new program that will enable authors [...]
The POD Pocket Guide to Marketing & Selling Your Book on Amazon
In March 2009, I began writing an article for LLBR about how to market your book on Amazon. The result of that article turned into a longer project that I decided to publish as a small book. Taking advantage of Lulu’s free ISBN at the time, I released it as a 93 page guide that included my POD Diary which I wrote throughout the first year of marketing my book, Stealing Wishes.
Amazon Loves…err, Loved Short Shorts
Back right around the time when Amazon.com first bought CreateSpace, and Kindles were still on the drawing board, Amazon came up with a brilliant idea called Amazon Shorts. This program gave authors a chance to upload short stories and sell them for .49 cents each, and gave authors like me the chance to rake [...]
B&N’s Nook eBook Reader is Here!
Well, we wondered how long it would take before someone else entered the Ereader race with Sony and Amazon. This week, we got our answer! For the past year, Amazon has owned the market with its Kindle, Kindle Deluxe, and the release this week of a new Kindle with U.S. and International Wireless access. With the latest version, Kindle also went global.