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Worlds joins Kindle Singles and Kindle Serials as a way for authors to earn money from digital publishing, and the best part is that in this case you don’t even have to be all that creative — the idea is to let fans create stories around original properties from other authors, offering them up for [...]
Abigail Keam is an award-winning beekeeper, with sixteen Kentucky State Fair honey awards. She also got the Barbara Horn Award, given to beekeepers at the fair who rate a perfect 100 in a honey competition. A metal house by the Kentucky River is what she calls home, where she lives with her husband and “various [...]
Karen Luellen — author of the YA Sci-Fi/Fantasy Winter’s Saga series — grew up the middle child, the only girl between two brothers, each with distinctly different personalities. Although she was able to adjust to each brother’s interests and preferences if she wanted a playmate, she still had more than enough time left over by [...]
The cover image for an ebook is important to its success, but it’s also a rather difficult skill to master. Not everyone has the artistic skills to design a good cover, but in the not too distant future that will no longer be a problem. There’s been no announcement from Amazon, but I have just [...]
Just an update to the little (OK, big) issue I had trying to run the WordPress Send to Kindle plugin I mentioned earlier in today’s Wordpreneur Tools Friday. In short, the Send to Kindle feature didn’t work here on the Wordpreneur blog, and trying to use it would simply produce an operation timeout error message. [...]
Click here for past Wordpreneur Tools Friday recommendations. Sorry, busy week, so only writing about one tool today. And its something I’ve been holding for later (read on for why), but again, busy, and although I have a nice sized list of potential Wordpreneur Tools to look at, they’re still to look at. This one, [...]
Brian Rathbone is a standardbred horse trainer turned technology geek turned independent fantasy writer and podcaster. In his own words, he’s “a bit of an odd duck armed with a few too many dragon jokes.” He certainly seems to have found an outlet for those dragon jokes, at least for the stories that they may [...]
The two tools you’ll be reading about in today’s Wordpreneur Tools Friday installment are in the “not quite recommended but pretty dang curious” category. I like what they promise, but I’m not sure they deliver what they say they will. The way I think they should, anyway. Or what is delivered isn’t cost effective as [...]
Author Gary Hansen wrote his thriller, Wet Desert, while living in Mission Viejo, California, where for twenty years he worked as an electrical engineer and where he often visited the Colorado River on weekends. A true product of the West, Gary is an avid outdoorsman, spending as much time as he can skiing, water skiing, dirt [...]
Amazon’s patent for a technology that would let customers sell their previously read eBooks, audiobooks, music and movies the same way that consumers can now sell print books, DVDs and CDs, has been approved. A seller could put their previously owned Kindle title up for sale and another user could purchase the title, which would [...]
Amazon has just announced a new virtual currency for Kindle Fire owners to use on in-app purchases, app purchases, etc. in the Amazon Appstore. The service will launch in May, at which point Amazon will be giving away tens of millions of dollars worth of Amazon coins to customers. Users then have the choice of [...]
Let’s start a new tradition hereabouts — new-ish, anyway, since in a sense, we’re revisiting our roots. Grasshopper, let me introduce you to… Wordpreneur Tools Friday! The concept’s simple: Every Friday, in a single post, I’ll give you a few (or more) links to “tools” you may find useful as a wordpreneur. To do, well, [...]
Android tablets have nearly caught up to iPad devices as the world’s most popular tablet platform, and some project that they may even overtake iPads later this year. According to new research from app analytics company Localytics, the U.S., and specifically Amazon, should take the most credit for that trend: some 59% of all Android [...]
If there is some reason why people are not buying your book when they run across it (too few reviews, negative reviews, badly designed cover, ineffective product description, badly written or formatted free excerpt, wrong price — too low or too high), then simply being in KDP Select will not change this, and people will [...]
KDP users can choose if they want to make 70%… or 35% royalty. The catch is, to make 70% users must price their eBooks competitively– between $2.99 and $9.99… Anything lower than $2.99 and many consumers begin to wonder if the content inside is worth it, unless the description of the eBook states the eBook [...]
Emily Kimelman is the author of the best-selling Sydney Rye series of dark murder mysteries. She lives on a boat in the Hudson Valley with her husband, Sean and their dog Kinsey (named after Sue Grafton’s Kinsey Millhone). Emily is passionate about traveling and spends as much time as she can in the pursuit of adventure. [...]
Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, Rachel Howzell Hall was always an avid reader and lover of books, getting a B.A. in English and American Literature from the University of California at Santa Cruz. Her professional writing career started at Black Radio Exclusive, an urban weekly music trade magazine, as its executive assistant and [...]
Traditional publishers are traveling a long and confusing road into the digital future. To begin with, here’s the conventional wisdom about publishing: E-books are destroying the business model. People expect them to be cheaper than physical books, and that drives down prices. But the story’s not that simple. For one thing, digital publishers have the [...]
I suppose that’s a question that might raise the hackles of those few who cling to some of the rapidly obsolescing formats for dying e-readers. However, what I’m suggesting is that, from a practical standpoint, there are actually very few viable formats. So, what are they?” Read full article @ Making It Easy »»» AD: [...]
