eBooks

Authorship and Collaboration with L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories

May 11, 2011 | Yvette M. Chin | 3

Mulholland Books teams up with Rockstar Games to produce L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories.

Ebook MarketView: Kindle Bestsellers Shift Toward Price Extremes

May 4, 2011 | Dan Lubart | 15

Dan Lubart | There’s little place left at the top of the bestseller lists for $9.99.

Anatomy of a Successful Ebook Giveaway, Continued

March 25, 2011 | Carolyn McCray | 23

Carolyn McCray | Implementing a successful ebook giveaway and achieving four measurable marketing goals.

The Anatomy of a Successful Ebook Giveaway

March 22, 2011 | Carolyn McCray | 31

Carolyn McCray | Crafting an effective marketing strategy with four measurable goals

Best Practices For Amazon Ebook Sales

March 15, 2011 | Carolyn McCray | 213

Carolyn McCray | Reimagining book copy in the digital “storefront”

How the Ebook Reader’s Bill of Rights Benefits Authors

March 10, 2011 | DBW | 23

Andy Woodworth | What are a reader’s rights and how that affects authors.

Can Publishers Compete on Tech’s Cutting Edge?

February 11, 2011 | DBW | 14

Mary Kole | “It sure is sharp and fun up there, but it’s easy to lose one’s footing.”

Does Print Fit in a Digital Book World?

February 11, 2011 | Richard Curtis | 3

Richard Curtis | “POD is ideally suited for a book industry based on preordering – what might be called the Amazon model.”

What Happens When an Ebook Gets Updated?

February 7, 2011 | DBW | 15

India Amos | “It’s all fine and nice to mouth off about the importance of QA, until you’re responsible for it…”

InDesign to Ebook: Resources

January 13, 2011 | Colleen Cunningham | 34

Colleen Cunningham | “ePub Resources and Tools for Beginners”

The Power of the Quiet Social Book

January 12, 2011 | DBW | 17

Kathy Meis | “Publishers can try it all. But they know, if Martha next door tells her friend Mary to read Franzen… sold!”

CES 2011: Tablets, Tablets Everywhere

January 11, 2011 | Eric Freese | 7

Eric Freese | “What new reading devices can publishers expect to see their books on later this year…?”

Agency Abroad and the Limits of Technology

December 31, 2010 | Emily Williams | 6

Emily Williams | “Not even Google could pull off a launch in more than one country at a time.”

Electric Literature and the Digital Future

December 20, 2010 | Guy LeCharles Gonzalez | 13

Guy LeCharles Gonzalez | “If your core pitch is your ‘innovative’ business model and not what you publish and for whom, your 15 minutes are almost up.”

Indies to Agency Five: Where’s the Love?

November 23, 2010 | Emily Williams | 6

By Emily Williams | “Publishers are not seeing those lost sales because the lift in eBook sales in general masks the disaffection.”

Dark Horse Circumvents iTunes, Plans to Sell Direct

October 18, 2010 | Guy LeCharles Gonzalez | 9

By Guy LeCharles Gonzalez | “No licensing fees to Apple means we can pay our creators more while offering readers lower prices.”

If Libraries are Screwed, so are the Rest of Us

October 15, 2010 | Emily Williams | 31

By Emily Williams | “All this is happening as taxpayers are having to decide what municipal services they can live without.”

Does Ebook Growth Mask Market Share Declines?

October 14, 2010 | Guy LeCharles Gonzalez | 18

Guy LeCharles Gonzalez | “And if it does, how would you know?”

Reversal of Royalties: A Modest Proposal

October 1, 2010 | DBW | 19

By Bob Mayer | “This is a win-win situation. The author makes more money. The publisher makes more money.”

Digital Natives and Ebooks: Missing the Point

September 30, 2010 | Guy LeCharles Gonzalez | 23

By Guy LeCharles Gonzalez | “It’s not about the technology or the format, it’s about giving readers multiple options to engage.”

Local Library, Meet the World Wide Interwebs

September 27, 2010 | Emily Williams | 15

By Emily Williams | “Libraries will have to think about how they’re going to compete with an organization like Starbucks.”

Image Rights Slow Transition from Print to Ebook

September 6, 2010 | Emily Williams | 22

By Emily Williams | “Stripping away​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ the paper form has revealed ​​​​​​​​the true nature of books: they are complicated bundles of copyrights.”

Copyright, Ebooks and the Unpredictable Future

August 27, 2010 | Emily Williams | 35

By Emily Williams | “Where will ebook rights​​​​​​​ end up?”

An Optimist-Pessimist’s Guide to Avoiding Ebook Armageddon

August 10, 2010 | DBW | 37

By Heather McCormack | “We have to establish once and for all that ebooks do belong in public libraries.”

Goodreads Takes Next Step in Social Reading

August 6, 2010 | Guy LeCharles Gonzalez | 26

By Guy LeCharles Gonzalez | “We have 13,000+ authors on the site and many of them want to reach readers directly.”

Where’s the “Kindle Killer”?

July 27, 2010 | DBW | 10

By Walt Shiel | “Will the iPad result in fewer eBooks being sold by Amazon? I sincerely doubt it.”

eBook Revolution: Random House vs. The Jackal

July 26, 2010 | Richard Curtis | 12

By Richard Curtis | “Publishers are loath to sue authors (or the widows and children of authors).”

eBook vs. Hardcover: Beyond the Headlines

July 20, 2010 | Guy LeCharles Gonzalez | 47

By Guy LeCharles Gonzalez | In the midst of the Kindle hype, Bezos made a point of noting that “our hardcover sales continue to grow.”

Google Editions: What We Know (and Don’t Know)

July 19, 2010 | Eric Freese | 31

By Eric Freese | “Partners, formats, prices… and the gPad?”

From Print to ePUB: Exporting Sidebars

July 6, 2010 | Colleen Cunningham | 7

By Colleen Cunningham | “Are there better ways to set off sidebar content in an ePUB file besides text size, indents, and white space?”

From Print to ePUB: Transforming Your Workflow

June 28, 2010 | Colleen Cunningham | 19

By Colleen Cunningham | “The designer must be able to let go of some design control and put content first, before design.”

Taming (or Not) the Textbook Market

June 21, 2010 | DBW | 11

By Mark Long | “The simple truth is that neither publishers nor bookstores can survive on the margins from selling POD books.”

iPad Revisited: 5 Topics for Publishers to Consider

June 11, 2010 | DBW | 29

By Samir Kakar || “The new tablet device has undoubtedly changed the publishing industry’s focus on eBooks.”