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For indie authors, one great way to save money when it comes to publishing your books is to learn how to make your own ebooks. Personally, when it comes to creating ebooks, I recommend using Sigil, and I teach an online course on Udemy on how to use Sigil and other free tools to create your own beautiful ebooks. But there are a myriad of other options. Below are some … [Read more...] about Ebook Formatting Options for Indie Authors
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How to Create a Basic Ebook in 10 Steps
After my short series on how to create a fixed format ebook, I thought I'd revisit the basic steps on how to create a regular ebook. This is for novels, or books with mostly text. There are 10 steps to creating an ebook, and if you find this useful, you might like to try out my online course, which has a number of videos that demonstrate the steps. 1. Download and install … [Read more...] about How to Create a Basic Ebook in 10 Steps
How to Create a Fixed Format Ebook (Part 3): Placing Text
In the last two posts of this series, I covered how to set up a fixed format ebook and how to add images to a fixed format ebook. In this post I'll cover how to place text on specific parts of a fixed format ebook's "page," which includes placing text on top of the image. First, you'll want to open up your stylesheet (CSS) in Sigil, and add code for each page of your book. … [Read more...] about How to Create a Fixed Format Ebook (Part 3): Placing Text
New Ways to Write
When you write, you don't always write books. There are many forms of content available, including blogs, research papers, white papers, short stories, articles, poems, flash fiction, and more. Recently I wrote a post about "New Ways to Read," but now I'd like to focus on all the tools and sites out there that make it possible to write and produce new … [Read more...] about New Ways to Write
4 Big Reasons to Create Your Own E-Books
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My first Slideshare show. Let me know what you think! … [Read more...] about 4 Big Reasons to Create Your Own E-Books
Self Publishing Platform Updates
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In the last few months, a lot has changed with some of the major self-publishing channels, specifically Kindle, Nook, Kobo, and Smashwords. Kindle Aside from Amazon launching Kindle Worlds, which changes the way fan fiction is written and published, it also recently started publishing Kindle Single Interviews. The second interview will be with Obama. Additionally, when you … [Read more...] about Self Publishing Platform Updates
Creating Prizeworthy Digital Books, by DBW
Digital Book World recently hosted a webinar called “Creating Prizeworthy Digital Books.” For this post I want to focus on the advice Joshua Tallent, chief e-book architect at Firebrand Technologies (formerly eBook Architects), gave. Tallent knows pretty much everything there is to know about e-books, and he’s the one who presented an excellent webinar a while back about the … [Read more...] about Creating Prizeworthy Digital Books, by DBW
