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iBook Lessons: Picking vendors, price, and exclusivity

by Erica Sadun (Jul 5th, 2012)

iBook Lessons is a continuing series about ebook writing and publishing. There's a dilemma faced by many new ebook authors: how to sell a book for "not much at all" and still earn a decent living. Apple and Amazon policies complicate this decision. Amazon offers a multi-choice royalty system ...

iBook Lessons: The absolute beginner

by Erica Sadun (Jun 29th, 2012)

iBook Lessons is a continuing series about ebook writing and publishing. I get asked this a lot: what is the absolute minimum it takes to get started in ebook publishing. The answer is this: a manuscript in Microsoft Word .doc or .docx format, an Amazon account, and a smile. Everything else ...

iBook Lessons: Publishing costs

by Erica Sadun (Jun 13th, 2012)

iBook Lessons is a continuing series about ebook writing and publishing. Andrew Hyde jumped into the ebook business with both feet. After fully funding a KickStarter project to raise start-up costs for his "This Book is about Travel," he published his manuscript to a variety of vendors. His ...

iBook Lessons: Style sheets

by Erica Sadun (Jun 8th, 2012)

One of the challenges Steve Sande and I face, when building our ebooks, is to present our manuscripts with reasonable typographic flair. That's harder than you might first think because readers can customize many ebook features, including fonts. In iBooks, they may choose sans-serif Seravek ...

iBook Lessons: Creating Amazon KDP tables of contents on MS Word for Macintosh

by Erica Sadun (May 5th, 2012)

For whatever reason, many Amazon authors seem to be under the impression that you can only create a proper table of contents for Kindle Direct Publishing on Windows, not the Mac. Having just uploaded our newest book (Getting Ready for Mountain Lion) to Amazon, Steve Sande and I have invested a ...

How Apple iBooks needs to compete with Amazon: KDP Select

by Erica Sadun (Jan 3rd, 2012)

Amazon has trailblazed; Apple has followed. Apple's iBooks program currently allows authors to self-publish ebooks. Authors create their own business built around iTunes Connect, just as they do for self-published apps. So where does Apple have room to improve? What follows is the first of ...