Feed: Literature & eBooks - AggScore: 70.5

10 Places To Get Free eBooks

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10 Places To Get Free eBooks. This is a list of good places to download free ebooks, written by my colleague over at eBook Reader Software.

Independent Authors: Use The Internet To Promote Your Books (Article)

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If you’re an independent author who isn’t being promoted by a traditional publishing company, it’s likely that you’ll have to do the bulk of the marketing for your books. This is especially true if you’ve self-published, whether in paper or ebook format. You can accomplish a lot by using the internet. Your Own Website I [...]

Printable eBooks (Article)

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Below is an article written by my colleague Jared Scott, who writes eBook Reader Software. I wanted to re-post this article here because, in my experience, this is something that often trips people up. Many people tend to assume that PDF files are always printable. I think that folks have gotten used to the idea [...]

EPub Validation

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Author: compliance EPUB validation tool is an essential tool that enlists the errors in the EPUB file, an electronic book format that has become the industry standard, allowing eBooks that use this format to be read on a wide range of eReaders available now a days. EPub was developed by the International Digital Publishing Forum, [...]

Creating ePubs with Sigil

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Creating ePubs with Sigil. This is a useful review of the free program Sigil that my colleague just wrote. Sigil is a free program for creating .epub files from txt or HTML. This is a great option for self-publishing authors.

A Book Publisher’s Point Of View

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Author: Oli Osorhan Many writers aspire to write books. Writing a book is a long, involved, difficult process. Book publishing is harder. A writer may submit his book repeatedly only to be turned down. The writer may eventually succeed. Wouldn’t it have been easier to get published the first time? Is that possible? You can [...]

eReader News

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eReader News. My colleague at eBook Reader Software has put up a cool round-up of some new eReader releases and current sales/price drops. Included are the new Kindle with Special offers, Nook Touch, Kobo Touch, and sales on BeBook Models: “BeBook Sales Both the BeBook Neo and BeBook Club eReaders have gone on sale at [...]

Another Article about Self Publishing eBooks

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I ran across another article about self publishing ebooks today.  I like this one, titled Self Publishing is the Future. This is Your Guide, because it gives a lot of information about different resources that authors can use. On my last post about self publishing, there was a strangely irate comment left by an anonymous [...]

Kindle with Special Offers

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The big ebook-related news for this week is that Amazon has released a new version of the Kindle. This one is priced lower at dollarsignr114, and it comes with “special offers” and advertisements. These special offers will display in a bar across the bottom of the page, or in a screen saver that comes on [...]

EBooks: Friend or Foe?

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Author: John Joseph Burhop Publishing is a dollarsignr35 billion industry. Up until just a few years ago, that meant almost exclusively books, magazines, newspapers, and other small items such as brochures and business cards. The internet has changed all that in more ways than one. Enter the eBook, or downloadable electronic book. Although early versions [...]