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May 6th, 2008

Write an eBook in 12 Steps

Over at Just Make Money Online has an article called: 12 Steps to Make Money Online with eBooks (and Other Ideas)
She sums it up pretty well, and even suggests you can take her steps and turn them into an ebook… well guess what? I wrote at an ebook called: Yes, YOU can make money with […]

By Anne Wayman -- 2 comments

April 24th, 2008

Ebook Readers - A Problem I Hadn’t Thought Of

Sigh! I suppose it should be obvious, but until I read Joe Wikert’s story called Kindle Book Conversion: One Author’s Story that I realized there would, of course, be formatting problems when it came time to get your book, or mine, into shape for whatever ebook reader I wanted to be able to sell it […]

By Anne Wayman -- 0 comments

March 25th, 2008

Do You Write Music?

Although most of the readers here are writing words, my hunch is at least some of you are also writing words for music or even the tunes themselves. Shai Coggins, who blogs at Just Make Money Online (http://www.justmakemoneyonline.com) has a post called: Make Money from Online Music Sharing with Grooveshark.. As a listener you can […]

By Anne Wayman -- 1 comment

December 26th, 2007

Writing and Publishing eBooks

The blog, allbookmarketing.com, has a post called: The Benefits of Publishing E-books.
The entry has a good list of reasons to publish (and write) ebooks, but one of the entries says this: People will often pay significantly more for an e-book from an industry expert than a print book. Why? Because they want the instant gratification. […]

By Anne Wayman -- 0 comments

December 20th, 2007

Beyond the Book

Just Make Money Online points to a podcast where Jason Van Orden tells how he makes $70,000 a year with his podcasts and blogs. So I ran up freerice.com
It’s excellent, if not earth shaking marketing advice. But it got me thinking…
In today’s market there’s a whole lot more you can do with the content of […]

By Anne Wayman -- 3 comments

December 9th, 2007

Kindle Dust Still Settling

There’s still lots of talk about Amazon’s Kindle.
For example, if:book talks about how the dollars might work for ebooks in a post called: kindle maths 101
Mashable talks about the problems with wireless, the Kindle and certain parts of the country in Moving To Montana? Forget About Your Kindle!
Then there are all sorts of sites that […]

By Anne Wayman -- 5 comments

December 4th, 2007

Your Book - It’s More Than Writing

Bringing your book to market requires a whole lot more than just the writing. While it’s true, nothing happens if you don’t write, once you’ve got a completed manuscript, there are at least 10 things that need to be completed before your finished:
1. Addition of front and back matter - title page, copyright notices, index, […]

By Anne Wayman -- 0 comments

November 21st, 2007

The Amazon Kindle – Ebook Reader Breakthrough?

Yesterday Amazon launched its much touted Kindle. Called a “wireless reading device” it’s what may be the next step in ebook readers.
What interests me most about this one is the screen. Amazon says: Utilizing a new high-resolution display technology called electronic paper, Kindle provides a crisp black-and-white screen that resembles the appearance and readability of […]

By Anne Wayman -- 7 comments

November 15th, 2007

Is Print Dead?

Joe Wikert has an interview with Print Is Dead (both a book and a blog name) author Jeff Gomez. It covers a lot, including:

Ebooks are too much like print books
Questions (and some answers) about pricing
Some speculation about what we, as authors, should be doing about all this

If you’ve got any interest at all in writing […]

By Anne Wayman -- 1 comment

November 5th, 2007

More Ebooks on Cell Phones

According to Publishers Weekly, publisher Houghton Mifflin has signed a deal to get at least some of its books on cell phones. Initially, the books will only be available on Embarq, Qwest, Orange UK and Bell Mobility (in Canada), but more carriers are said to be coming online soon.
Sigh – it looks like I’ll have […]

By Anne Wayman -- 0 comments

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