Epubchat is ready for your new books
Snug right up to your readers — they want to know about your books. #EPubChat on Twitter is every Friday now, so that’s twice as many days you can come announce your new books and give us links we can share. Like everything ePub Clubs are about, we are using these tools to collaborate and [...]
Tracking the Familiar
Characters: Global Brain Human Brain Google+ #OTable The global brain is our playground, fueling a growing structure of community and commerce. This article asks the question: “Have we overshot the limits of social expansion?” The subquestion might be: “What does it mean that we seek the familiar in our online interactions?” Global brain In the [...]
Amazon keeps Kindle burning bright
Thank goodness for our many reporters of Amazon news. I rely a lot on Steven Lewis, who is @Rule17 on Twitter and the creator of several excellent tools for writer/publishers using Kindle. His blog, Taleist, covered the most recent Amazon developments so I don’t need to do that here. The gist of these latest shiny [...]
Kindle authors report selling thousands of ebooks each month
The Kindle Author’s Checklist is included in The 4-Hour Publisher The hot question writers ask in all our discussions about Kindle is “just how many books are authors selling?” This hasn’t been documented until just a few months ago. I don’t have a spreadsheet of historical information on every author in this list, but I [...]
Writers who publish collaborate here
I’d like to invite you, writers who publish, to a new collaboration. We’re combining traditions which still work with innovations our readers are already using. ePub is short for modern publishing. It’s also a format when you put the dot in front of it: .epub. To get a good feel for the new landscape, I [...]