Browsing Tag 'eBooks'
Ebooks have been marketed as consumer products, but sales have also been driven by schools… Other publications, including The New York Times, are marketing ebooks as educational resources. ‘Education companies as well as school districts are looking for reality-based content,’ Vice President of News Services Alice Ting said by phone. ‘There’s nothing more reality-based than the [...]
According to documents obtained by TechCrunch, Microsoft is offering to pay $1 billion for Nook and will discontinue the Nook tablet business by the end of 2014. The acquisition would give Microsoft control of the device and content business but not the college bookstore business, according to the documents. Should the deal go through, the [...]
If you’re going to digitally publish, I believe you should own an e-reader, even if just to test how your book looks. They aren’t expensive anymore so there is no excuse. It’s also important to understand how ebook readers shop, because they are the high-volume readers, the ones who will make up the bulk of [...]
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 [...]
NOOK Press authors can price their titles between $0.99 and $199.99 and receive a competitive royalty based on the given price. For NOOK Press NOOK Books priced at or between $2.99 and $9.99, authors receive 65 percent of the list price for sold content. For those priced at $2.98 or less, or $10.00 or more, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Ever since he could string words together, Jason D. Morrow loved to write fiction. And his parents were very supportive: He would take his stories to them to read and he’d receive positive feedback. Graduating with a Journalism degree, he got a job writing for a Georgia newspaper… but he realized it really wasn’t the [...]
For the first time ever, a self-published title has hit No. 1 on the Digital Book World Ebook Best-Seller list, occupying a position once held by Fifty Shades of Grey, Gone Girl and other mega best-selling titles. The book, Wait for You, is authored and published by Jennifer L. Armentrout under the pen name J. [...]
Sam Torode is the author of The Dirty Parts of the Bible: A Novel, a semifinalist for the 2010 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. He is also the author of The Book of Craw (poems related to the novel), and a more serious biblical study, The Song of Songs. A Nashville, Tennessee, writer, artist and book designer, Sam [...]
Passionate, emotion-filled novels featuring complex, sexy Alpha males tamed by smart, strong, independent-minded women were author Sandra Morton’s vehicles for success, using them to build a long and very fruitful writing career. A USA Today bestselling author, Sandra has more than 35 million books in print worldwide. Accolades? No shortage of those either. Sandra has won [...]
The following is pretty brutal, but truth often is. I have a friend who absolutely positively hates ebooks. No surprise she’s a member of the AARP. She takes every opportunity to email me and take a dig at ereaders — with “studies” and “data” and quotes and whatever — pretty much the same way photo [...]
If you’re going to digitally publish, I believe you should own an e-reader, even if just to test how your book looks. They aren’t expensive anymore so there is no excuse. It’s also important to understand how ebook readers shop, because they are the high-volume readers, the ones who will make up the bulk of [...]
A lifelong journalist and former columnist for the Stars and Stripes newspaper in Europe, Bonnie Bartel Latino is the co-author of the military love story, Your Gift to Me. A military wife for thirty years, in 2011 the Military Writers Society of America honored her with its William E. Mayer Award for Literary or Artistic Excellence, [...]
Russell Blake is the best-selling author of twenty novels to date, including Fatal Exchange and The Geronimo Breach, and a whole slew of other thrillers. But Russell’s writing isn’t limited to adrenaline rush inducing page turners — he is also the author of the non-fiction international best-selling animal biography An Angel With Fur, and a parody [...]
A former criminal prosecutor and now a national best-selling author of paranormal romance and romantic suspense, Virna DePaul currently writes for Harlequin and Random House. She also happens to be a best-selling indie author of contemporary and erotic romance. Fans of her writing say her stories are fast-paced, emotional and “seriously sensual” (RT Magazine). In [...]
The most breathless news releases and stories surrounding books today have one thing in common — they’re pushing the concept that the latest and greatest involves audio, video, and interactivity. Even the tools that get the most attention — iBooks Author, Inkling Habitat, Vook, and a variety of others — emphasize how they can take [...]
The Internet may be disrupting much of the book industry, but for short-story writers it has been a good thing. Story collections, an often underappreciated literary cousin of novels, are experiencing a resurgence, driven by a proliferation of digital options that offer not only new creative opportunities but exposure and revenue as well.” Read full [...]
