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Self-Pub.net Barnes & Noble answer to the Kindle, the Nook. I like the idea of a color touch screen and that you can resell titles when done reading or let friends borrow them. Will have to research how self-pubishing authors can get their book for sale on Barnes and Noble as a Nook edition.
Source: www.barnesandnoble.com
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Review of the Book Design Wizard. http://blog.marketingtipsforauthors.com/
Source: blog.marketingtipsforauthors.com
I want to share a program I recently purchased that has done a great job at helping me format my upcoming book in Microsoft Word. It is a program that you need to purchase, but for full disclosure, it is not one I promote as an affiliate. ...
Self-Pub.net Some of the book covers created by Kimberly Martin of Self-Pub.net. View more and find information on having your own book cover created at http://www.self-pub.net/bookcovers/.
Self-Pub.net An example of the impact of font choices. A story on Ikea switching it's font to "Verdana" and the response it provoked. The Verdana font was designed for the Web, not print and is often overused.
Source: www.time.com
Swedish furniture giant Ikea has swapped its signature Futura font for the more Web-friendly Verdana, leading fans of design and affordable coffee tables everywhere to take to the Internet in outrage
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Source: gizmodo.com
Author Boyd Morrison wrote and uploaded a book called The Ark, pictured, to Kindle, and found such success that he has now signed a two book deal with Simon and Schuster in that weird, dying papery format your grandparents like.
Self-Pub.net Lightning Source and the Espresso Book Machine are teaming up. Have you read about this yet? It is basically an ATM for books. You can select a book you want and it prints and binds it for you on the spot. I've been trying to find a local location for it to try it out.
Self-Pub.net Save 5% off any product or service offered by www.Self-Pub.net. Use discount code FBFANA09 when checking out. Code expires 5/17/2009.
Self-Pub.net Protest over Amazon's decision to allow publisher's to turn off the text-to-speech function for their books on Kindle under pressure from the Author's Guild. Read more in our Discussion Form.
Source: news.cnet.com
Supporters of the visually impaired protest outside New York offices of Authors Guild and demand the group drop its opposition to Kindle's text-to-speech function. Read this blog post by Greg Sandoval on Digital Media.
Self-Pub.net Story about self-publishing on CNN.
Source: www.cnn.com
"Still Alice," written by Lisa Genova, is a novel about a 50-year-old Harvard professor's struggle with Alzheimer's disease. It's also a book, Genova was told, that nobody would want to read.
Most book printers and publishers have image resolution requirements for images included in the book’s interior. Typically they will ask that all images be 300 ppi (pixels per inch) resolution and sometimes more. ...
Self-Pub.net Lightning Source is offering free title setup when you order a minimum of 50 books. This promotion runs though June 1st, 2009. For more information visit http://www.lightningsource.com.
Fonts are an important part of your book. They set the mood and can effect the readability of your text. Your book may have potential to be a bestseller but if someone has trouble reading it due to a bad font choice they may just put it down without finishing or recommending it to a friend...
When writing your book you should separate the writing from the formatting. Write first, format later. However, there are some steps you can make when writing that will make the job of formatting easier and help prevent errors in the formatting process...
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