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Real eBooks: Are We Still in the Stone Age?

 

February 1, 2012in Features, Opinion by James MoushonTags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
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So when will we start to see REAL ebooks appear on the market? You know the ebooks that take advantage of their digital environment. Ebooks that have been rendered to improve the reader’s ebook experience. As the number of ebook devices explodes into the book reader’s world, the readers are going to expect more. This [...]

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Did that Bad Review Come with a Side of Ulterior Motives?

 

December 21, 2011in Features, Opinion by Kaitlyn DavisTags: , , , , , , , , , , ,
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I recently discovered that my book was victim to an act of sabotage through bad reviews and wrote a blog post for the Huffington Post. Here it is:
How much can you trust book reviews on the web? Turns out, very little.
My journey in self-publishing started at the end of this past October. I had a young [...]

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Self-Publishers and eBook Authors Need a CHAMPION to Assist Them in Gaining Access to the Library Lending Process

 

November 30, 2011in Features, Opinion by James MoushonTags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
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Amazon’s entry into public libraries and their own lending process through the Prime program has just quadrupled the activity in ebook lending. With this rapid growth of the ebook lending process comes some inherent problems as [...]

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Library eBooks: Is the eBook Ecosystem Affected by the Amazon Library Lending Process?

 

October 28, 2011in Features, Member Blog, Opinion by James MoushonTags: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
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My usual blogging direction is toward the ebook author and the self-publishing world. With this blog I take a left turn and explore the Amazon Library Lending Process and how it affects the ebook ecosystem.
The Jungle [...]

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An Experiment in Serial Fiction and Self-Publication

 

October 26, 2011in Features, Opinion by Lucas J.W. JohnsonTags: , , , , , , , ,
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At the start of the year, I had an idea for a project. I wanted to write a serialized fiction story in pieces small enough to fit inside a single Tweet. One tiny chunk of narrative prose every day, slowly building an ongoing, real-time story for the audience to piece together.
Then every so often, I’d [...]

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eBook Marketing: What Goes Around Comes Around

 

October 20, 2011in Features, Resources by James MoushonTags: , , , , , , , ,
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To eBook authors, marketing can be a daunting task. Whether you’re an indie publisher or you are using a traditional publisher, the marketing is usually left up to you.
It is a digital world now and self-publishers are not tied to bookstores with limited shelf space and a revolving inventory. In fact it will be on [...]

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eBook Authors: Is the Kindle Library Lending Program a New Opportunity for Self-Publishers?

 

October 10, 2011in Lead Story, Opinion by James MoushonTags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
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As new ebook authors and self-publishers continue to try to get exposure in the digital world, several new events could present an expanded opportunity to reach the ebook reader.
1. Amazon’s new generation of Kindles plus the IPad rival ‘Kindle Fire’ will definitely expand the reading [...]

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eBook Authors: Errors and the Dreaded Stigma of Self-Publishing

 

September 6, 2011in Features, Opinion by James MoushonTags: , , , , , , , , , , , ,
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Self-publishing and ebooks have carried a stigma from day one by naysayers and the traditional publishing world. They forecast the book publishing pipe filled with poor and unreadable digital content because of the self-publishing ebook author.
There has been an increase in errors and poor formatting introduced by the new digital books compared to their pbook [...]

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The Mystery of the Missing Amazon Public Notes

 

June 30, 2011in Features, Member Blog, Opinion by James MoushonTags: , , , , , , , , , , , ,
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Prime Suspect: The New Amazon Upgrade Program
Amazon Public Notes look like they are taking a turn that only a detective can figure out.
I blogged in February about the Great News of Amazon adding a new feature to their eBooks called Public Notes in which readers could share highlights and notes with other readers. In that [...]

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Ebook Publishing: Are Traditional Publishers Sitting on a Pot of Gold?

 

June 22, 2011in Features, Opinion by James MoushonTags: , , , , , , , , , ,
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The prospects for an explosion in the ebook market are growing every day. Once traditional publishers realize the ebook-only market is a huge opportunity, they will embrace it and they will realize that they had a pot of gold right in front of them all the time.
Current Publishing – Are things panning out with ebooks?
Traditional [...]

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