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Smashwords: Your Ebook, Your Way
Smashwords is an ebook publishing and distribution platform for ebook authors, publishers and readers… At Smashwords, our authors and publishers have complete control over the sampling, pricing and...
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How to Format an EPub
Image via Wikipedia Ready to turn your damned-good-doggerel into an ebook? Or that collection of your grandmother’s delicious desserts? These “Six eBook Formatting Tools” from eBookNewser will get you...
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Digital Book and Audio Book Integration
Electric Type's Drew Frish on digital/audio book integration Drew Frist is the founder of Electric Type (@electrictypeco), a digital book publisher who just released their debut digital children’s app,...
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Storytelling from Cave Fire to Kindle Fire
Storytelling from Cave Fire to Kindle Fire (image by virtualDavis) Isn’t digital storytelling just enhanced storytelling? It’s just the newest chapter in humanity’s quest to improve the way we tell...
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2012 Publishing Predictions
Day three of the new year. Already! I’m plugging diligently away at my 2012 resolutions, but what good are resolutions without some predictions? I’ve polished up my crystal ball, and an image is...
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Kindle Owners’ Lending Library
Image via VatorNews When Amazon launched Kindle Owners’ Lending Library, their free e-book lending library back in November it was a concept, a gamble, a challenge. Amazon unveiled a long-rumored...
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Kindle Fire Pros & Cons, Part III
I ordered my Kindle Fire late Thursday morning and it arrived Friday, charged, linked to my Amazon account and brandishing a batch of fresh baked chocolate chip cookies. Okay, so I made up the last…...
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Publishing, Piracy and Libraries
Brian O’Leary’s “The first, best defense“, a Low Country lesson on publishing, piracy and libraries, makes a compelling case for simultaneously fostering book demand and reducing book piracy by...
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Publishing Hatchet Job
Just over a year ago Digital Book World‘s Editorial Director, Jeremy Greenfield (@JDGsaid), helped “leak” a Hachette Book Group internal document reminding the team why traditional publishers remain...
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Book as Enduring Symbol
As we watch the book transition into its fraught future, will the eventual scarcity of traditional volumes mean we can no longer recognize an image of that rectangular thing as a symbol of “learning,...
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