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Checkout My Basket: $0 0 itemsThere has been a rumor running wild across the web that Amazon was going to start culling short ebooks under 2500 words in length. The fact is, this is a myth. This story first broke on Kindle discussion board, Kboards.com when user MarlaB posted that Amazon had contacted her concerning the length of a short [...]
Barnes & Noble has long been a competitor to Amazon for ebooks. While Amazon has it’s Kindle Direct Publishing platform for independent authors, B&N had PubIt! While the two platforms had much the same capabilities before, Barnes & Noble didn’t stop there and have now created a completely overhauled platform called NOOK Press. For now, [...]
On the Kobo Books Writing Life blog, an author talks about her first book which started out as a series of blog posts. When bloggers write an ebook, this is usually the route they take. I’ve done it myself with my Recipes of If You Can Read, You Can Cook – Year 1. She talked [...]
Smashwords is an ebook distribution platform that distributes ebooks to most major and smaller ebook retailers, such as Sony, Barnes & Noble, iBookstore, Kobo, Diesel eBooks, and the Alkido smartphone app. Sony, Diesel, and Alkido only work with large publishing houses and distributors, so Smashwords is your best bet for getting published on those platforms. [...]
From humble roots as an online bookseller based in Seattle, Amazon has grown to be a global giant and the number one bookstore that sells not just books but electronics, clothing, sporting goods, and even groceries. In 2007, Amazon released the Kindle, on of the first commercially successful e-readers on the market. Instead of relying [...]
After Amazon, Barnes & Noble is the second largest ebook retailer. In 2009, the bookstore chain launched their e-ink reader, the Nook, and propelled themselves into the number two spot for the ebook market. With their PubIt! program, they make it easy for independent authors and small publishers to sell their titles on the Barnes [...]
Feedbooks is a French ebook retailer operated by the folks that created the Stanza e-reading app for the iPhone. They currently only support free books from indie authors. This limitation doesn’t make it a viable outlet for most authors, but if you have any titles that you may want to offer for free, Feedbooks could [...]
Google play is Google’s on-stop shopping platform for all things electronic. Android apps, music, movies, and books can all be purchased through this store. When a user searches for something in the play store, the default behavior is to show matches across all media types. So if you have a book named similar to an [...]
In the past year, Kobo eBooks has opened up their platform to independent authors and publishers. Previously, you had to be a publisher with a catalog of titles complete with ISBNs. The small guys were stuck using Smashwords or skipping out on the store run by the 5th largest e-reader manufacturer. But this dilemma is [...]
One of the biggest arguments I get from potential customers is “why should I pay you to convert my ebook file when I can just submit a Word document to Amazon or Barnes & Noble?” Amazon and Barnes & Noble do auto-convert Word documents (and pdf’s), but I don’t trust work done by machine converters. [...]
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