Tag Archives: ebooks

To ePublish or not to ePublish – eBooks vs Traditional Print

I’ve got a lot going on this week, so I’m glad to welcome a couple of guest posters. Today, Daniel Brent Ruyter is going to chat about e-publishing versus the traditional model. If you get a chance, check out his … Continue reading

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Tweaking Your Ebook “Packaging” to Increase Sales

If you feel like you’re sending lots of visitors to your Amazon ebook pages, and it’s not resulting in many sales, you may want to make some changes. While you’re probably not going to tinker with the story itself (although … Continue reading

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Ebook Formatting with XHTML and Calibre by Paul Salvette

Last week, we had a guest post on a simple way to get your ebook formatted without worrying about dinking around with HTML or special software tools. Today, Paul Salvette is going to give us a more in-depth version for … Continue reading

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E-publishing 101: How to Get Started

Judging by the comments on this blog, there are lots of folks stopping by who are just getting into e-publishing (or thinking of getting into it), so I thought a basic checklist post might be in order. If you print … Continue reading

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Refunds for Amazon Ebook Sales, Should You Be Worried?

When I first started selling ebooks on Amazon, I don’t remember noticing a “refunds” column. Then, as I started selling more books, a number appeared there. What? Someone returned one of my ebooks? How could they? Actually, I just shrugged … Continue reading

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So, You Want to Sell More Books at Amazon… [Part 3: Reviews]

This is my third and last entry in my “So, You Want to Sell More Books at Amazon…” blog series. The first discusses how Amazon starts to promote your books internally once you sell enough copies and the second goes … Continue reading

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Pros and Cons of Writing a Series

If you’re an author and you started out thinking you’d publish traditionally (i.e. find an agent who would then find you a huge multi-book contract with a major publisher, thus ensuring you could quit your day job and write full … Continue reading

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Short Stories vs. Short Story Collections–Which Sell Better?

As we’ve discussed before, there are no rules about minimum word count when it comes to ebooks. You can publish a 150,000-word novel or you can publish a 5,000-word short story, and anything above, below, and in between is up … Continue reading

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