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Three Tips for Getting Your E-Book Off the Ground

Alex Frey | Posted 04.20.2012

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Alex Frey

My e-book on investing now regularly gets more downloads than books by Warren Buffett, George Soros and Peter Lynch. Here are three things that I learned in the process of getting it there.

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A Novelist Turns Himself In

Thomas Mullen | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Department of Justice Ebooks, Department of Justice Lawsuit, Department of Justice, Ebook Publishers, Department of Justice Settle, E-Book Lawsuit, E-Book, Satire, Comedy, Books News
Thomas Mullen

Writing does require quite a lot of time and effort and expertise, of course, but it's foolish to think such costs could be passed on to customers. In this digital age, we're told that information should be free.

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Jon Ward

Romney Campaign Discipline Prevents Embarrassments In New E-Book

HuffingtonPost.com | Jon Ward | Posted 11.30.2011

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WASHINGTON -- In Politico's new and highly anticipated e-book about the 2012 campaign, the most notable thing may be what's not in it: much of anythin...

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Jon Ward

New Book Says Newt Gingrich 'Bought Off' His Wife To Stay In The Race

HuffingtonPost.com | Jon Ward | Posted 01.11.2012

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WASHINGTON -- A new e-book on the 2012 election released Friday says that Republican candidate Newt Gingrich went on an ill-timed cruise to Greece thi...

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Alton Brown On Cookbooks: 'I Want To Go Where Nobody Has Gone Before'

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 12.09.2011

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By J.M. HIRSCH NEW YORK -- Alton Brown's next cookbook may be more like "The Matrix" than Food Network. That's because the host of the network's...

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Does an Author Really Need a Website? The Book Doctors Interview Annik LaFarge on How to Be a More Effective Author Online

David Henry Sterry | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Author, Bloggers, Writing, Books, Self-Publishing, Annik LaFarge, Websites, Author Websites, Seo, Editing, Print on Demand, Authors, Publishing, Authorship, Blog, Book Doctors, E-Book, Search Engine Optimization, The Author Online, Books News
David Henry Sterry

Annik LeFarge knows what she's talking about, so we asked her to share with us the benefits of author websites. She also shared with us her 10 ½ tips for being a more effective author online.

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Your Subaru's Bumper Still Knows the Truth

Benjamin LeRoy | Posted 05.25.2011

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Benjamin LeRoy

Longstanding barriers between authors and readers -- barriers of technology, finance, and distribution -- are crumbling faster than news stories can report.

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Amazon Kindle Playing Nice With Publishers?

nytimes.com | CLAIRE CAIN MILLER | Posted 05.25.2011

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Amazon.com said Monday that it would give magazine and newspaper publishers more of the revenue that it collects from the periodicals sold via the Kin...

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NookColor Won't Save Barnes And Noble

Forbes | Posted 05.25.2011

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It's not yet out, but on Wall Street, the announcement was greeted with a yawn. Meanwhile critics have already been generally unimpressed, and reactio...

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Another Novelist Sells A Million eBooks

GalleyCat | Jason Boog | Posted 05.25.2011

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Not to be upstaged by the Nook Color, Amazon revealed that James Patterson is the second novelist to sell more than one million Kindle books--joining ...

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Are Enhanced eBooks Actually Readable?

publishingperspectives.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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The idea is that you can "read, watch, and listen to an e-book at the the same time," in the parlance of Penguin's marketing materials in support of t...

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Why Do Students Still Cling To Paper Textbooks?

nytimes.com | LISA W. FODERARO | Posted 05.25.2011

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"The screen won't go blank," said Faton Begolli, a sophomore from Boston. "There can't be a virus. It wouldn't be the same without books. They've defi...

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Amazon Kindle 'Singles' To Launch

BusinessWeek | Posted 05.25.2011

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Amazon.com is betting that an uncommon length of reading material -- longer than a magazine article but shorter than a book -- will be a popular forma...

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iPad With A Manual Typewriter Keyboard?

frecklednest.blogspot.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jack Zylkin has invented a Typewriter Convertor process that turns any manual typewriter into a keyboard for your computer! He sells ready to purchase...

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Drunk Buying At The Kindle Store?

The Boston Globe | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Kindle changed my reading habits, because I now buy books pretty much only when I'm drunk, and late at night. I had a serious Agatha Christie drun...

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eBooks Enhanced With Sound And Video

Yahoo! News | Richard Carter | Posted 05.25.2011

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"In five years, books will be more often crossmedia products: with embedded sound, animated pictures, Internet links and ... possible a gaming compone...

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21st Century Serialization

USA Today | Posted 05.25.2011

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Today, instead of reading serialized stories in magazines, readers will pay $5.99 at mongoliad.com for a six-month app that gets them a chapter a week...

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Kindlerotica, 'Compromising Positions'

Slate Magazine | James Ledbetter | Posted 05.25.2011

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But as you scroll down the list of Kindle offerings, you can't help but notice all of the steamy writing that seems to be targeted at men--an emotiona...

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eBook Of The Future: 'Books Are Websites Written On Paper'

Forbes | Posted 05.25.2011

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While the false battle between e-books and print books will continue--you can read one on the beach, with no batteries; you can read another at night ...

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eReader Refusal: Does Clinging To Books Make You Old Fashioned?

Salon.com | Riddhi Shah | Posted 05.25.2011

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I couldn't see what she was reading, and it bothered me. I couldn't peer in that tiny window onto someone's interior world, or delight in the juxtapos...

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Apple Users Download 35 Million Books

mediabistro.com | Dianna Dilworth | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tech blog GDGT quoted Jobs as saying: "People have downloaded over 11.7 billion songs from iTunes, and we're just about to cross 12b. Over 450 million...

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Scribd.com Goes To The Dark Side

evilreads | Posted 05.25.2011

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Their "archive" process (scheme) works like this: after an unspecified "period of time," all free, publicly-viewable documents posted to Scribd.com ar...

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Can Technology FIX Publishing?

GigaOM | Posted 05.25.2011

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While paper books are still the norm, e-books now account for up to 20 percent of book sales in categories like romance and sci-fi. The shift in publi...

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Do eReader Users Read More Books?

Wall Street Journal | GEOFFREY A. FOWLER | Posted 05.25.2011

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A study of 1,200 e-reader owners by Marketing and Research Resources Inc. found that 40% said they now read more than they did with print books. Of th...

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Tea Party Rhetoric or Amazon Review?

Laurence Hughes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Big Short, Michael Lewis, Tea Party, Kindle, E-Book, Amazon, Books News
Laurence Hughes

A donnybrook has broken out between Kindle owners, angry that there's no e-book for Michael Lewis's The Big Short, and others taking them to task for "reviewing" a book they haven't read.

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