Posts Tagged ‘e-readers’

Short Story eBook Templates

May 30, 2011 by · 1 Comment
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If you’re interested in publishing your short stories as ebooks, you might get confused by the different formatting requirements of the Word document for Amazon and Smashwords. After studying the Smashwords Style Guide, I came up with an ebook template suitable for both with minor modifications. The template files can be downloaded from below. Please [...]

Tallying Up Read An eBook Week

March 13, 2011 by · 1 Comment
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The Read An eBook Week (March 6-12, 2011) is now over. All my ebooks over at Smashwords were available for free with a special coupon code. I gave away 109 copies among seven titles, with an average 13 copies for six titles and 31 copies for one title. If these were actual sales, I would [...]

The Fiction Reprint Market Is Dead!

February 10, 2011 by · 1 Comment
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The most frustrating thing about being a short story writer is that the fiction reprint market is dead. A non-fiction writer can write an article for one magazine, change the focus of the article for other magazines, and have a back catalog of articles that can be sold over and over again as reprints with [...]

A Dead Tree Traditionalist Among E-Readers

June 23, 2010 by · Comments Off
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The big story this week is the price war among the various e-readers. Barnes & Noble cut the price on their current Nook 3G + Wi-Fi e-reader to $199 from $259, and introduced a new Wifi-only version for $149. Then Amazon followed with a similar price reduction for the Kindle, dropping the price to $189. That [...]