Posts tagged books
Time-Tunnel Publishing: Medieval Writing In The Ebook Age
It’s not easy being an independent publisher. If you don’t have mountains of cash to fork out so that other people will do the formatting, cover design, price setting, etc. for you it’s all in your hands, which can become quite a lot of work. Also, by making one mistake after the other you learn. The…
How You Can Join The FREE Movement
It was an interesting week. 5 days ago I finally released my latest ebook “Education Is A Cow That Anyone Can Milk” after integrating all the feedback readers of this blog have sent in. Sylvia Guinan wondered why I released it for free. And this was my answer. Kirsten Winkler followed up with even more…
5 Reasons Why I Give Away Books For Free
Recently, my colleague Sylvia Guinan asked me: “I’ve been trying to work out your sharing philosophy. I share a lot too, but you work really hard on publishing professional books and then give them away. Is it some kind of karma philosophy where the more you share the more you get back, like a boomerang…
Experiments In Collaborative ePublishing
40 days ago I posted here on this blog that I wanted to try something different for the publication of my next ebook: Instead of going over the text myself over and over again, fixing broken syntax and hunting for typos (as an independent publisher I don’t have a room full of type-monkeys, unfortunately) I was…
Who Wants To Help Me With This Ebook?
Over the last few weeks I have been working on producing another ebook release, which is part of my ongoing experimentation with the Amazon Kindle platform. What Is the Publication About? It all started with a post I had written a while ago that gave the name for this release which is called “Education Is…
5 Ways To Sell Your Digital Goods Online
There used to be a time when the only way to make a living as an author or musician was to go through publishing houses and labels that would help you create the work, package it, distribute it and sell it. This way still exists but with the disappearance of book stores and physical music…