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Tag Archives: Making Digital Books
New Ebook: Making Digital Books
I’m pleased to announce a new how-to ebook entitled Making Digital Books: Formatting and Selling Your Novels and Stories as Ebooks. This ebook includes, in one nice, tidy package, all of the various blog entries I’ve been posting here, along … Continue reading
Making Digital Books: Adding the Fancy Stuff to Your Ebook
All right, are you ready for this one? We could discuss all those awesome formatting tricks you could do with your small library of ebooks to make them even better. Stuff like highly detailed Tables of Contents (not the simple … Continue reading
Making Digital Books: Marketing Your Ebook
I saved the marketing topic for later, because it’s my least favorite aspect of the whole process. I already touched on the three main areas to focus on with your ebooks in the previous entries about covers and descriptions: A … Continue reading
Making Digital Books: Devising a Distribution Strategy for Your Ebooks
Let’s take a step back from all the formatting, the cover-making, and the description-writing for a second. Let’s make sure you’ve got a good strategy in place for distributing your ebooks. Places like Amazon’s Kindle Store, the Nookbook Store, and … Continue reading
Making Digital Books: Writing Great Descriptions for Your Ebooks
This is the back cover copy, but much more concise and snappy–it’s marketing material, not creative material. It’s a call to action, and that action is to get the reader of the description to buy your book. Descriptions are tough. … Continue reading

