Saturday, November 28, 2009

Self-Publishing an E-book

The following tip on self-publishing an e-book is from http://www.u-publish.com,
the Web site named for the compact guide to self-publishing and promoting books by Dan Poynter and Danny O. Snow.

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Newsletter Excerpt:

===> Lead Story: e-Books going wild?Recent developments in e-publishing suggest that the growth of e-Books seen in 2008 - 2009 continues to gain momentum. Consider these recent reports:Amazon has started selling the Kindle in Europe. There are reportedly now more than 3 million Kindles in use, and growing.The iPhone and iPod Touch jointly boast more than 50 MILLION users. In October 2009, the Apple "Apps Store" reported more downloads of book-related items than game-related items for the first time. Rivalsmartphones like the G3-Android and the Palm Pre will add millions moreusers, hungry for content to download, in 2010. Smashwords.com has announced new deals that will let its users sell theirbooks at Fictionwise.com (a Barnes & Noble property) and Amazon, although for now they lack copy protection. Lulu.com now allows users to upload EPUB files (as well as Word files, PDFfiles and other formats) then sell COPY-PROTECTED e-Books in Adobe DigitalEditions format from their site. For now, Adobe Digital Editions with copyprotection won't run on the iPhone, but...
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