Self-Publishing Tips, Tutorials and Guides
Writer's Digest announced it's 12th annual Short Story Competition today. Deadlines vary. Entries Include: Screenwriting Contest Annual Short Story Writing Competition Poetry Awards Competition Science Fiction / Fantasy Short Story … [Continue reading]
As of Monday, July 18th, the leading retail giant started renting textbooks to students. Amazon made available tens of thousands of textbooks from its online Kindle Store. According to Amazon, the prices for rental textbooks Amazon "are as much as 80 … [Continue reading]
Jeremy Soldevilla Publisher / Founder / Author Jeremy began his publishing career in Boston, copywriting and designing marketing collateral for the academic and trade book markets. His passion for the industry led him to become an acquisitions … [Continue reading]
MOBI files are essentially one long HTML page -- very similar to a Web page. It contains a header, footer and the content in-between called the body. The only part you really need to modify is the body -- add your own manuscript to the HTML … [Continue reading]
When using Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing program, it asks for you to upload your book cover. However, this upload does not put the book cover into the book. Section 4: Upload Your Book Cover is the for product display only. To add the book … [Continue reading]
The fight started hours after Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation “that would have required Amazon to start collecting a 7.25% base tax on online purchases.” (LA Times) Paul Misener, Amazon’s vice-president of global public publicity responded, … [Continue reading]
I met Gail through LinkedIn, and was intrigued by her service. When I requested an interview I opened the email with “I hope you had a wonderful weekend.” Here's her response. GAIL: Weekend? Is there such a thing as a weekend? LOL. I work seven … [Continue reading]