Case Study: Tips for Updating a First Book to Market Your Second
- Why updating previous books is important
- To keep your book’s reviews, avoid these mistakes
- Four changes that require a new ISBN
- How to link to your book’s Amazon review page
Cover Design
How to Manage a 99designs Book Cover Contest
Three secrets for maximizing success:
- Write a detailed design brief with compelling headline
- You are the art director
- Prepare to actively manage the process
Re-Publishing an Out-of-Print Book After a Rights Reversion
- Who owns the copyright to the cover?
- Do you need a new ISBN?
- What happens to the book’s reviews?
- Is your book file editable?
Book Barcode Basics When Using Amazon or IngramSpark POD
- When do you need a barcode?
- How to produce a barcode
- Be careful if printing a price in a barcode
- Deciphering a barcode
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 …
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Does a print book make an eBook publisher legitimate?
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 …
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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 …
How Color Tablets Are Impacting Publishing-3 Things Publishers Should Know
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 …
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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 …
Which is more important? A good book 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 …
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