Authors need to be aware of what to expect when hiring someone to create their ebook file — are they actually formatting your project or merely converting it?
Archives for 2012
Building your Author Brand and Target Audience
The failure of many authors is not recognizing that their writing is a business. And the best way to establish your business is to build your personal brand by driving traffic to your online site through original content.
Smashwords Mark Coker talks about e-Publishing (March 2011)
Mark Coker, founder of Smashwords.com, talks about his ebook publishing and distribution platform. Smashwords makes it easy for any author in the world to upload a finished manuscript and instantly e-publish as a multi-format ebook to most of the major ebook retailers.
Book Marketing One Day at a Time
Time is precious for self-publishing authors and the thought of marketing can quickly become overwhelming. Here’s 13 daily marketing tips.
Author SEO: Keyword Mapping
How can an author compete with the hundreds of thousands of other books on the market? SEO or search engine optimization. Keywords, tags and more…
Author Central: An Effective Marketing Tool for Authors
Many authors don’t take advantage of or are not even aware that Amazon provides a free author page (Author Central), not just on their .com site, but on their International sites as well.
Sigil Ebook Editor 0.5.905 Beta Released (again)
The Sigil programmers have re-released the latest version of the Sigil Ebook Editor program Version 0.5.905 Beta. Once I am able to evaluate version 0.5.905, I will include the updated information in my Ebook Formatting Kit 4.0 October.