Piotr Kowalczyk | Self-Publishing Review

Self-publishing is a source of innovative thinking

Presentation: Self-publishing – a source of innovative thinking and how to benefit from it.

The presentation the link to which you see above was prepared for Ebook Lab Italia conference. I wanted to highlight a prevailing characteristic of self-publishers, yet not discovered and fully utilized by publishers and readers. It’s the innovative thinking.

In digital times, times of over-content, the front line is the attention of a reader. Technology leads to equal chances. Both big publishers and self-publishers use the same on-line tools and services to find the reader and convince him to buy the book. But obviously there […]

Piotr Kowalczyk2020-02-21T07:48:46+02:00March 11th, 2011|Categories: Features|

How you can sell your e-books via mobile phones?

There are great services like Ether Books, which are designed to reach mobile readers and populate their minds with high quality reads tailored to mobile conditions. But what to do when you are not lucky enough to be one of Ether authors?

If you are a self-publisher actively using social media to find readers and draw their attention to your books (probably published in an electronic form), this post is for you.

I’d like to share a simple way to make your e-book available for instant purchase by mobile phone users. As you’ll see – it’s very easy.

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Piotr Kowalczyk2020-02-21T07:44:45+02:00February 3rd, 2011|Categories: Publisher Reviews|Tags: Social Media|

15 Questions About Google Editions

The e-reader price war has started. In a couple of hours the prices of major e-reading devices, Kindle and Nook, have dropped under $200. It’s not a coincidence that this is happening right now.

Google Editions will launch in a couple of days, weeks at latest. And when it happens, the world will receive a simple message: you don’t need to buy an extra device to read books, use your current one as long as it has a browser.

Opposite to iBooks/iBookstore which was a blank page with a list of 5 publishers, Editions will start with a strong context […]