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Case Study: Tips for Updating a First Book to Market Your Second

July 20, 2018 By David Wogahn Leave a Comment

How Your First Book Can Help Market Your Second Book-Giridhari Das

Anyone who has published one book knows how hard it is to build an audience. Everyone starts here. For those that persevere, a second book is a way to leverage all that hard work of audience building. It gives your fans something else to buy from you. At the same time, launching a second book always attracts new readers. Some may buy that new book. Some may decide to start with book 1. Either way, one of the best investments you can make is to ensure the two books cross-market each other. As … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Business Topics and Publishing Strategy, Ebook Development, Marketing and Promotion, Producing Print Books Tagged With: Cover Design, eBook Conversion, eBook Design, ISBN, Publishing Strategy

How to Manage a 99designs Book Cover Contest

January 12, 2016 By David Wogahn Leave a Comment

I consider book cover design to be one of the most challenging steps in the process of producing a finished book: It is critical to the marketing of a book. Everyone you ask for input seems to have a different opinion. Good covers are often a big investment. (Big might be a relative term.) You might have an idea but communicating that vision is another story (for most of us). If you are self-publishing, you may be the wrong person to judge the ideal design. Take your pick, it … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Ebook Development, Producing Print Books Tagged With: Cover Design

Re-Publishing an Out-of-Print Book After a Rights Reversion

March 12, 2015 By David Wogahn 20 Comments

Re-Publishing an Out-of-Print Book After a Rights Reversion

If the publishing rights to your book recently reverted back to you, you might be considering the indie publishing route for your title rather than trying to find a new publisher, or simply allowing your book to be out-of-print. Without trying to interpret contract clauses or how to negotiate the “reversion rights” of your publishing agreement, I thought it would be helpful to talk about the key considerations should you choose to self-publish. Generally we can divide the issues into two steps. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Business Topics and Publishing Strategy Tagged With: Copyright, Cover Design, ISBN, Legal Matters, Print-on-Demand (POD), Repurposing Content

Book Barcode Basics When Using CreateSpace or IngramSpark POD

February 18, 2015 By David Wogahn 12 Comments

Book Barcode Basics: Using CreateSpace or IngramSpark POD

If you are planning to use a POD printer you probably do not need to buy a barcode. I say that because most new indie or self-publishers use print-on-demand printers like CreateSpace and IngramSpark (or sister Lightening Source) and these printers provide the ISBN barcode free. The book cover you submit to these POD printers will have a blank (white) rectangle on the back—this is where their printing presses place the barcode for your specific book at the time it is printed. Said another way, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Producing Print Books Tagged With: Barcodes, Cover Design, CreateSpace, Distribution, eBook Design, IngramSpark, ISBN, Print-on-Demand (POD)

Publishing an eBook Series: Design and SEO Considerations

July 23, 2014 By David Wogahn Leave a Comment

Publishing an eBook Series: Design and SEO Considerations

Publishing a book series is a popular strategy these days and few would question the value of using SEO techniques to help readers find them. The challenge in my experience has more to do with the planning required and having enough “product” to make the effort pay off. I don’t yet have enough data to speak to the ROI but I can share a case study from a recently completed client project for the San Diego Reader. I’ve been managing their book publishing initiative for the past year and we just … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Selling and Distributing Books Tagged With: Cover Design, Discovery, eBook Design, SEO for Books

Does a print book make an eBook publisher legitimate?

October 11, 2013 By David Wogahn Leave a Comment

Print book or eBook or both-What format have you published

I want to share one finding I neglected to include in our 2013 eBook Self-Publisher Survey: In what format/formats have you published your books? My assumption was that most of the people taking the survey would answer “eBook only.” Looking at the graph it seems the opposite is true. Why might having a printed book make a self-publisher "legitimate"? Because it is harder and usually more expensive to publish a print book, even if you do use a print-on-demand (POD) service like CreateSpace. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Business Topics and Publishing Strategy Tagged With: Cover Design, CreateSpace, Distribution, Editing, Goodreads, Print-on-Demand (POD), Research

Using the New Amazon Cover Creator-3 Easy Steps to an Attractive and Free eBook Cover Design

July 5, 2013 By David Wogahn 8 Comments

Using the New Amazon Cover Creator-3 Easy Steps to an Attractive and Free eBook Cover Design

Amazon's new Kindle Cover Creator is ideal for indie authors looking to save money on eBook cover design. It is another example of how automation tools can be used to reduce the costs and steps between author and reader. Currently in beta release, the tool is easy enough for anyone to use. In fact I think it makes a great brainstorming platform as well. Authors unsure of what they are looking for can use it to create combinations of images, fonts and colors that can then be handed to a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Ebook Development Tagged With: Cover Design, eBook Design

How Color Tablets Are Impacting Publishing-3 Things Publishers Should Know

May 15, 2012 By David Wogahn Leave a Comment

Pursuing your library is easier on a color tablet

Popular opinion prior to the release of the Kindle Fire was that the iPad, Smartphones, and Android tablets were not ideal reading devices. Serious readers chose dedicated eReaders—E-Ink (black & white) devices like Kindle, Nook and Kobo. Color didn't/doesn't matter for these applications, or so we thought. We always knew that some books were better viewed on a color device—children's books and travel books come to mind—but surveys are now reporting that color tablets are taking market … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Newsroom Tagged With: Cover Design, Research

Cover Design Resources-Make the Investment

May 4, 2012 By David Wogahn 2 Comments

Cover Design Resources-Make the Investment

There is simply no excuse for publishing an eBook without a decent cover. You might have gotten away with it early on but now that the market is being flooded with eBooks you will look cheap and "self-published" if you don't make the effort. If you care anything at all about your writing, invest in a cover. So what do you do if you don't already know a designer, or you want to get some education before you hire one? Here is an eclectic collection of resources to get you started. Begin with … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Marketing and Promotion Tagged With: Cover Design, CreateSpace

Which is more important? A good book cover, or good metadata?

September 17, 2011 By David Wogahn 1 Comment

Which is more important? A good cover, or good metadata?

I just did a search for “ebook cover design” and found 143,000 results mentioning this exact phrase. Then I searched for “ebook metadata” and Google found 11,800 results. Clearly there is a lot more discussion about ebook covers than ebook metadata. First let’s clarify what I mean by metadata. I like to use the simple phrase “information about information”. For books that means titles, descriptions, keywords, categories and all the other descriptive information that travels “with” the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Marketing and Promotion Tagged With: Cover Design, Metadata

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