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500 Free to One Paid
That’s the ratio one self-publisher found was needed to extract paid sales from free books. Technical writer Keir Thomas reports on his experiments in screen publishing. He wrote a book (a resource...
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Orientation for First Ebook
Avi Solomon offers his ultra short course on how to publish and sell your first ebook, in the form of a set of 16 slides on Slideshare. It’s a good orientation. Details are left to you. It assumes you...
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iBooks vs. Kindle Delivery Time
As Kevin already mentioned, his book Bicycle Haiku recently became available for the Kindle. And now, I’m happy to report that it’s also available in the iBookstore. In both cases, we prepared the...
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Kindle Conversion From PDF
Ebook conversion from PDF is possible but problematic. Often, PDFs carry print-specific elements that aren’t useful in the context of reflowable text, like page numbers and repeating chapter titles....
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Moving text from PDF to InDesign
We’re working on another EPUB conversion now. For this one, we’re moving from PDF to EPUB via InDesign. Currently, the whole book exists as a single PDF. The text in the PDF includes a small but not...
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Awesome EPUB Error of the Day
ERROR: wtw-intl.epub/OEBPS/toc.ncx(110): ‘heading_id_17′: fragment identifier is not defined in ‘OEBPS/Text/wtw-intl.html’ I got this error (actually, like 200 of them) from the EPUB validator that...
View Article#eprdctn Hour Gems
This week’s #eprdctn hour, moderated by @BookDesignGirl, just concluded. The topic was eReader devices and apps and their unique code rendering issues. These are some gems worth remembering: Misc...
View ArticleInDesign to EPUB and AZW
I was proudly updating a techie friend recently about the progress I’ve been making in my latest ebook conversion for Kevin. I’d mentioned it a few weeks prior. His response was not “That’s awesome!”...
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iBooks Author
Somehow I missed the announcement of iBooks Author last week. TechCrunch published a list of “subtle details” from Apple’s announcing event. Engadget published a helpful hands-on illustrating the...
View ArticleLean Self-Publishing Platform
This startup from Vancouver offers an interesting front to back publishing platform. Named Leanpub, it has something to offer writers, publishers, self-publishers and readers. I don’t know much about...
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