Book Formatting | Self-Publishing Review

Real eBooks: Are We Still in the Stone Age?

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 statement is especially true with the younger generation whose world seems to center around instant access.

I just completed a study of twenty newly released ebooks just to see how far the art of ebook publishing has advanced in the last year. I choose ebooks […]

James Moushon2020-02-21T03:29:13+02:00February 1st, 2012|Categories: Features|Tags: Book Formatting, Book Marketing, Smashwords|

An Interview with eBookIt CEO Bo Bennett

eBookit is one of the best new conversion services – and their site just had a major redesign, suggesting that the service is growing quickly along with the ebook market. I haven’t worked with eBookIt for any of my own books, but I walked my dad through the process and it was easy – and fast. It’s $149 to convert, which distributes to most of the same retailers as Smashwords (without having to deal with the meatgrinder).

Self-Publishing Review: So what’s Ebookit – when did it begin and how have things been going since you started up?

Bo Bennett: eBookIt.com […]

Henry Baum2020-02-21T03:48:22+02:00October 25th, 2011|Categories: Interviews|Tags: Book Formatting|

eBookit Review

Ebookit charges a flat fee of $149:

What WE Do:

1. We Prepare Your File for Conversion
2. We Assign You an ISBN
3. We Convert Your File To Many Required eBook Types
4. We Check Your Converted eBook for Quality
5. We Distribute Your eBook to the World
6. We Promote Your eBook! (optional)
7. We Pay You!

Fine print on #7: they take 15% of royalties. However, that’s the same as Smashwords – but at Smashwords you have to meatgrind your book yourself. This is also 15% on top of what you’d get from the 30-70% at Kindle, […]

Henry Baum2020-02-21T03:48:32+02:00October 10th, 2011|Categories: Publisher Reviews|Tags: Book Formatting|

How to Format a Kindle Ebook

If you’ve got a blog, you’re probably familiar with what it takes to format for the Kindle. If a tag like <em> is totally unfamiliar to you, it’ll be a bit harder to get up to speed, but HTML code is actually not as complicated as it looks – especially as it pertains to a Kindle book, which doesn’t need a huge list of formatting commands.

It should be noted that it may not be entirely necessary to do this at all, but if you’re interested in a pro-quality Kindle book, adjusting the code is the best bet. Otherwise, you […]

Henry Baum2020-02-21T03:45:56+02:00July 13th, 2011|Categories: Resources|Tags: Book Formatting|

eBook Self-Publishing: A Simple Guideline and Some Tips on Taking Those First Steps

Baby Steps First
Starting to self-publish your ebook or even thinking about it can be a daunting task. A little help before you start will save you time and help you in publishing your ebook in all the right places.

When I published my first book, I had no idea where to go or what to look for. I thought I would walk you through some of the steps you will need to take to get self-published.

This is a major topic and could easily fill a large book and there are many good books on this topic already out […]

James Moushon2020-02-21T03:38:43+02:00June 16th, 2011|Categories: Resources|Tags: Book Formatting|

eBook Authors: Render Thy eBook or Miss The Boat

I am a non-fiction and technical book reader at heart. Lately I have become addicted to ebooks. I like the ability to get the ebook anytime and anywhere and read it anytime I want. Recently a historical fiction hardcover book was passed to me. A book about Elizabeth 1 of England and the period in history called the Tudor dynasty.

Sometimes I like to read a good historical fiction novel and this turned out to be a good one. After I was about half way through the novel, the analytical part of me took over. This hardcover book was the […]

James Moushon2020-02-21T03:37:44+02:00June 2nd, 2011|Categories: Features|Tags: Book Formatting|