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Making Digital Books: Creating Effective Ebook Covers

In all my research into self-publishing (y’know, that word still has a bit of a negative connotation in my brain, I’m sorry to say) and indie publishing (yeah, that’s much cooler-sounding), I’ve read over and over that the following three … Continue reading

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Making Digital Books: Formatting Your Novel for DriveThruFiction

So you’ve got your ebooks up at Smashwords, KDP, and Pub-It, right? And you have your novels set up as PoD books with CreateSpace and its various distributors. You may have even gotten your ebooks into the Google eBookstore (or … Continue reading

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Making Digital Books: Formatting Your Novel for the Google ebookstore

Why should you use the Google ebookstore to sell your ebooks? Google ebooks are stored in “the cloud,” instead of being downloaded onto your ereader, phone, or computer. They claim to be available on any device, and the ebook will … Continue reading

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Making Digital Books: Formatting Your Novel for Print-on-Demand (PoD)

Here’s a thought or two about the future of print book publishing, from a small publisher’s perspective: Why print up 10,000 copies of a book, pay to store it in a warehouse and then pay more to ship it to … Continue reading

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Making Digital Books: Formatting Your Novel (or Story) for the Nook

Have you walked into an actual Barnes & Noble store lately? You may have noticed that they’re devoting more and more space to their spiffy new ereader, the Nook, in its color and eInk (black and white) versions. The Nook … Continue reading

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