A quick note about recent developments. Barnes and Noble predicts that digital books will surpass hardcopy sales within two years. Certainly the trends are clearly in that direction. For writers, this may be a welcome development, as the route to digital publication is much shorter and easier. But then there looms the major challenge of [...]
TweetShareWe all know that internet users are beginning to actually BUY content and products online. Music. E-Books. Magazine subscriptions. These are leading the way. Now comes along a new publication model that may create its own revolution. It is an innovation building on the new arrival of “micro-payments.” You know, the option to buy a [...]
TweetShareMelissa Tyndall Fox has devised an agressive campaign to sell her new book Bleed You Dry: an enticing price for Kindle or Nook version and a captivating book trailer. A good case study for aspiring writers. Watch the video at YouTube. Related PostsBook Trailers, YouTube & MySpace: New Avenues to PromotionMarketing Your BookMore About YouTube [...]
A couple weeks ago, I learned from my online sources that fiction writer Joanna Penn was launching her new book with a “virtual book tour.” How fitting, I thought. You see, I think Joanna is just about the most internet-savvy writer out there. I’ve written before: if you want to know what to do to [...]
AnyBizSoft has recently released a PDF Reader for the iPad. As you know, many ebooks are published in PDF format — and this reader will bring them into your iPad for convenient reading. And it’s FREE. If you distribute your PDF ebooks from your own website, you may wish to provide your readers with the [...]
Writers now have a new way to sell their work online: PayPal Micro-Payments. PayPal’s new procedures make purchases from a website as easy as dropping a quarter in a vending machine. This opens the door to selling even short fiction, feature articles or other short works, as well as full-length digital books to a world-wide [...]
ShareDo you ever record your interviews and want them transcribed for easier use? If so, SpeechPad can take care of it for you. The process is simple. Just upload a recording from your computer. Once it’s uploaded, you will be given an estimated cost based on length. If you agree to the price, the transcription [...]
TweetShareNew York City (PRWEB) January 22, 2011 – Writer’s Digest, the oldest and most respected media company dedicated to the advancement of writers, announced today it is partnering with the leading self-publishing company, Author Solutions, Inc., (ASI), to launch Abbott Press—a self-publishing division. Named in honor of Richard K. Abbott, the legendary Writer’s Digest editor, [...]
Image via Wikipedia OnSwipe, a start up worth watching, is an exciting new facility which will make it easy to publish your work for the iPad. It is still in its very first days, but interested writers can sign up to be a beta tester. To be honest, I think this is a major direction [...]
ShareWriting Outliner for Microsoft Word is an add-in that can be of incalculable value for writers who work on big projects, such as book-length fiction and non-feiction, research papers, and such. With it, writers break down their work into smaller, separate chunks, each becoming a separate document. Writing Outliner then provides an overview of the [...]
ShareI’ve talked about SoftMaker Office before on this blog. I bought the 2008 version some time ago and use it from time to time when I get fed up with Microsoft Word. I’ve come to like it as a Word alternative — and I like it better than OpenOffice, which simply hasn’t inspired me that [...]
ShareYet another e-book source has gone online — and it has some elements to it that may make it a player in this growing market space. It is called Novelled.com. It will compete with Smashwords, allowing authors to upload manuscripts and sell them in the three most popular formats: pdf, mobi and e-pub. What distinguishes [...]
