Creating E-Books on an iPad
If you want to create e-books, you can use Apple’s free iBooks Author program. Not only can this free program create PDF files, but it can also create proprietary iBook files that allow you to add...
View ArticlePromoting E-Books Through a Website
If you create an e-book and throw it in an e-book store like Amazon or Nook, guess what? Your e-book will get buried under the hundreds of new e-books other people keep posting on those sites every...
View ArticleEx-Pixar Employees Create E-Book Tool
Brad West and his partner, Brad Andalman, met while working at Pixar Animation Studios. When they wanted to start their own company, they decided to create a program to help authors create e-books. “We...
View ArticleSoftware Writing Tools
There’s a flood of software tools designed to help you write better. While some are undoubtedly better than others and do as they advertise, spend your money wisely. It’s not that buying any writing...
View ArticleCreating Images of Books
If you’re selling an e-book, you need to create a 3-dimensional image of your book. With real books, you can prop a book on a table and take a picture of it, but with e-books, you can’t do that....
View ArticleBookPress to Turn Blogs Into E-Books
One of the best ways to create an e-book is to write is as a series of blog posts. That gives you a chance to write your book a little at a time, get feedback, and capture your thoughts in text before...
View ArticleThe Baker Framework
Creating an ePub file is fairly easy. Just write your book in a word processor, save it in a popular file format like Microsoft Word’s .doc/.docx format, and most e-book retailers like Amazon, Nook,...
View ArticleMaking Interactive E-Books
Today’s e-books are basically duplicates of printed books except they display static images and text on a screen. This is like early movies that were simply filmed versions of stage plays. The real key...
View ArticleComic Strip Artist Uses iBooks Author
When comic strip artist Rich Stevens wanted to put together a collection of his past comic strips, he decided to use iBooks Author. “I needed to work in iBooks Author,” Rich said, “because I wanted...
View ArticleNon-Fiction vs. Fiction
I have to admit that initially I thought everyone would want an e-book over a printed book because printed books are bulky and expensive. Yet after turning my most popular e-books into print-on-demand...
View ArticleThe Dying Nook
Back when Amazon introduced the Kindle, Barnes & Noble countered with the Nook tablet. In some ways, people believe the Nook is actually the slightly superior tablet but superior technology means...
View ArticlePrss, the Digital Magazine Maker that Apple Bought
A while back, Apple introduced Newsstand. The idea behind the Newsstand app was to let publishers create digital magazines and deliver them to customers. The problem with Newsstand was that it took...
View ArticleAugmented Reality
Once upon a time there was a tool called Metaio Creator, developed by a German company that created augmented reality software. In case you don’t know what this is, reality is what you see around you,...
View ArticleThe Coming Interactive E-Book Revolution
Change happens slowly. After all, look how long the United States has resisted the metric system that the rest of the world has adopted decades ago. In the e-book world, today’s e-books simply show...
View ArticleHarry Potter Books Get Interactive on iBooks
The Harry Potter book series was one of the most popular book series in its time. Now that author J.K. Rowling has finished the Harry Potter series, she’s now released new interactive animated versions...
View ArticleChoosing a Word Processor
As a writer, there’s nothing more critical than a word processor. Yet don’t feel you have to settle for Microsoft Word because Microsoft Word isn’t designed for writing. Instead, Microsoft Word is...
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