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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 ...

Kindle app update adds children's books, comics

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Jun 14th, 2012)

Amazon has pushed a long-awaited update to its Kindle app that adds children's books, graphic novels and comics. The availability of these books that take full advantage of a color screen was one of the marketing tactics behind the release of the Kindle Fire, and it's nice to see them on the ...

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 ...

Apple iPad dominates the tablet market in the US, Kindle Fire slips

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jun 5th, 2012)

A ChangeWave survey from May shows the iPad maintaining its dominance in the US tablet market. A survey of 2,893 consumers shows that 73 percent of people who plan to buy a tablet within the next 90 days will get an iPad, while only 8 percent want a Kindle Fire. The only other tablet with some ...

Dear Aunt TUAW: Where should I buy my George R. R. Martin fix?

by Erica Sadun (May 15th, 2012)

Dear Aunt TUAW, I want to buy "A Dance with Dragons" as an eBook and I am hesitating between buying it for Kindle or iBooks, the reason being the Kindle version will be available on my Mac, my iPhone and my iPad. Is it possible to do the same if I buy it for iBooks or will I be "stuck" with ...

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 ...

Amazon introduces Send to Kindle for Mac

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Apr 24th, 2012)

Amazon has released its Send to Kindle for the Mac, which allows users to drag-and-drop personal documents to an app that automatically sends them to their Kindle. It also adds the ability to use the print menu from any Mac application that has one to send a document to the Kindle. Users ...

Conde Nast to track iPad readership

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 16th, 2012)

It's been two long years for advertisers working with Conde Nast and their digital magazines. Until now, the publication has provided advertisers with only minimal details on its digital readership. An AdAge report suggests this is all about the change. Because of the newness of the medium, ...

Amazon Kindle app updated for Retina display

by Steven Sande (Mar 15th, 2012)

Several of the reviews of the new iPad were critical of apps that hadn't yet been updated for the ultra-sharp Retina display. For example, New York Times tech pundit David Pogue wrote that "After enjoying the freakishly sharp text in Mail and Safari, you'll be disappointed in the relatively crude ...

Inkling launches Inkling Habitat for textbook publishing

by Steven Sande (Feb 14th, 2012)

iBooks Author was announced last month to a lot of hoopla, but left many ebook publishers wanting a textbook authoring tool that would streamline the entire book publishing process and have more features. Today, Inkling announced their new online ebook publishing tool -- Inkling Habitat -- that is ...

Study: iPad holds value longer than Kindle

by Mike Schramm (Feb 13th, 2012)

Electronics retailer Gazelle has been calculating up the various values of used electronics, and the firm has found that the iPad will hold its value way better than the Amazon Kindle has so far. The Kindle e-readers have only held, at the most, about 33% of their price after a year of use, while ...

Amazon launches iPad-optimized Kindle store

by Steven Sande (Jan 10th, 2012)

You may remember the good old days when you could use Amazon's Kindle e-reader app for iOS to pop right into the online Kindle store to purchase ebooks. That feature went away in July of 2011 in order to comply with Apple's policies. Amazon today launched an iPad-optimized Kindle Store website ...

Daily Update for December 21, 2011

by Steven Sande (Dec 21st, 2011)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple stories by clicking the inline player ...

Kindle for iOS updated gives iPad users access to Kindle Fire's magazine collection

by Dave Caolo (Dec 21st, 2011)

The Kindle app for iPhone and iPad (free, universal) has been updated to version 2.9, giving iPad users access to the Kindle Fire's collection of more than 400 magazines and newspapers. You can buy individual issues or subscriptions, which will be delivered to the device when available. Note that ...