My Foray into Self-publishing
Posted in eBooks on Jul 17th, 2011
In my last post, I said that, over the lifetime of a book, it could be cheaper to go with BookBaby because you pay an upfront fee per book and that’s it. BookBaby doesn’t take a cut of each sale. Keryl Raist over at To Publish or Not To Publish wrote a post comparing royalty rates [...]
Posted in eBooks on Jun 18th, 2011
Joel Friedlander over at The Book Designer has posted a video interview with Brian Felsen of BookBaby, a company that has recently entered the eBook distribution space. Like Smashwords, it caters to indie authors, and it has experience dealing with indie artists. Its sister company CDBaby is successful in the indie music space. How does BookBaby differ [...]
Posted in eBooks, Formatting Tools on Jan 28th, 2011
Looking for someone to convert your manuscript to an eBook? Joel Friedlander over at Marin Bookworks has put together an EBook Conversion Services Directory. The navigation is counterintuitive, in that you have to press “Previous Listings” to move forward in the list, but the information is gold. (I believe the order of the articles can be changed through a [...]
Posted in eBooks, Formatting Tools on Dec 10th, 2010
A couple of quick items: First, I took a look at the eBooks Compiler at http://www.ebookscompiler.com because someone asked about it on one of the self-publishing lists. I’m only mentioning it in case anyone is wondering about it. If you’re interested in producing eBooks for the popular eReaders, this isn’t the application for you. It generates eBooks as [...]
Posted in Amazon, eBooks, Formatting Tools, Kindle on Nov 23rd, 2010
In my post about converting Word files to Kindle books, I didn’t go into detail about how to prepare your Word file if you plan to have Amazon DTP do the conversion. I upload MOBI files generated by eCub to Amazon, so I never have to worry about styling Word files. Over at Self-Publishing 2.0, Morris [...]
