Mar 31
There are many reason that authors fail. The most glaringly obvious one is that they don’t treat their writing as a business. Scrolling through my Facebook newsfeed, I came across a post that seemed to indicate that an eBook listed on Amazon was showing the wrong content when a potential buyer clicked on the “look …
Jan 01
AuthorReading.com will start offering expedited reviews to better serve the literary community. This year, small press and self-publishing has blossomed as never before, with self-publishing now very much a legitimate publishing option for authors. Today much of the literary community has shed its bias against those who have chosen to self-publish. Authors Reading welcomes this change and …
Dec 06
ALLi Partner member Simon Avery, book designer at idobookcovers.com, explains the most important principles of cover design for books to be sold online. From ALLi Self Publishing Advice: The rise of online book retailers such as Amazon have changed the rules of book cover design. And authors who realise this stand to do much better …
Nov 07
Oakland Public Library, in partnership with RBdigital from Recorded Books, launches OneClickdigital, an online service that allows customers to check out eAudiobooks and eBooks, and Zinio, a digital magazine service offering multi-user access to popular publications. Oakland Public Library (Oakland, CA) has partnered with RBdigital from Recorded Books (Prince Frederick, MD) to deliver two new electronic resources: …
Nov 06
Mediabistro is offering Self-Publishing Intensive, an online step-by-step webcast course starting December 5th, that will help aspiring authors urn their manuscript into a PUBLISHED eBook in three weeks. The course runs from December 5th through the 19th. From the website: Learn the steps to take your book from manuscript to published eBook – without a …
Shawn Bell is an American author, screenwriter, publisher, naturalist, and media god currently living in Southern California. More about Shawn
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