How a writer reacts to the eBook explosion depends on a number of things: how old you are, how you cope with new technology, and how long you have been in the business of writing, to name but a few. Other questions to consider are: How big a backlist of print books have you got? [...]
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When you are writing a non-fiction print book, it’s essential to plan the structure and organization of your text with great care. In this article I want to set out a clear and straightforward way of doing this. eBooks are different from print, but the same basic principles apply to both. This post is based [...]
If you own the rights to a backlist title that has gone out of print, eBooks and print on demand are an ideal way to bring your title back into print and continue to earn income from it. This is what I decided to do with my book ‘Words’, one of the titles in the [...]
One of the things I find most depressing about many author-published books is that they look so dreary! Some of the most influential books on self-publishing – such as those by Morris Rosenthal, and Aaron Shepard – have the most appalling design and typography. These books contain mountains of brilliant information and advice, but they just [...]