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Great News from Google+

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Google+ is the only Social Media site where your posts, comments and likes are directly transferred to their search engines. That’s not the only reason Google+ is the number one networking site, writers and publishers should choose and participate in. Read in this article about another new, great benefit of using Google+ and how it can improve your online visibility and credibility and maybe let your posts go viral.

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More Than Just Increasing Search Engine Rankings

Hereare just some of the ma...

8 Tips for Checking Your Professionally Formatted Files

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Self-publishing can betricky. There are so many ins and outs to learn if one wishes the finished product to look professional. Since I have recently published the secondedition of my first book in both print and digital format, the process of formattinghas been on my mind.

Formatting is the process of converting the basic, original (word processed)manuscript file to one that can be read on digital readers, or published in print. For instance: mobi files are for Kindles; epub format is for iP...

4 Things You Might Not Know About Queries

Author Lori L. Schaefer: “There’s plenty of great advice out there on how to format, write and submit query letters. What I want to discuss in this article are the aspects of querying that I would have liked to have known before I began the process myself – those small but important details that the professionals sometimes neglect to include.”

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1. Often, you won’t even receive a response. I am sure there’s a great deal of variation based on the query, the book, the genre, the writer, the agen...

How to Let Readers Pay With a Tweet

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The Ebook Doctor Mailbag – Epub and Pdf – the differences.

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Part II of the series by David Cronin explains EPUB and PDF formats.

Simply put, an Ebook is a ‘packaged’ website, and an E-reader is a hand-held web browser.

The EPUB format was introduced in 2007 as a format to enable viewing of electronic documents in a completely different way.

The Ebook contains a series of connected web pages which can be displayed using a browser. The pages are stored inside a “Package” or “Container”. For EPUB this has the .epub file extension.

What is very different with Ebooks is that they are designed to be “reflowable”. The text size and fonts do not come from the EPUB file itself but, just like on a computer, the available fonts are stored on the E-reader and the user can choose the default font type, font size, page margins etc.

Originally posted on Smorgasbord - Variety is the spice of life:

Since the introduction to the new series we have received a number of questions about the process -most will be covered over the coming weeks but since this was in one of the comments I decided to do a post.

http://sweetyshinde.wordpress.com/ Dr. Sweety Shinde asked this question this morning and since it is a question that comes up quite frequently David has put together an overview.

I am still old school of thought – preferring the paperback version to Kindle. However, I do doff my hat at evolution. Could you clarify the difference between ePub and pdf version? Are they really different? Goodreads asks for ebook in ePub version, while excerpts can be in pdf version.

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Although both Epub and PDF formats can be read by most Ebook readers they are completely different formats and each delivers the content in a completely different way.

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The Ebook Doctor – Making your own Ebooks by David Cronin – Part One.

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We can be forgiven for believing that all we have to do to create an Ebook is to write the text and then click a few keys and ‘Hey Presto’ we have an Ebook for sale on Amazon. In the most literal sense this is true. But will the Ebook look good, and will it ever sell? The answer is YES, but you need to take a step back and take a little time to learn a bit about how your Word Processor and Ebook conversion software can help you turn your manuscript into a good looking Ebook that will sell. How long did you spend writing your book, carefully crafting and re-crafting sentences, characters and book structure? A little more time spent on the final presentation is well worthwhile if you are going to make an impact.

In this short series of articles David Cronin will show you the steps that you need to take to make your Ebook look good and pass through the “gateways” of the big Ebook retailers.

Originally posted on Smorgasbord - Variety is the spice of life:

Over the coming weeks David Cronin will be giving a step by step guide to formatting your Ebook for both Mobi and Epub.  Although Moyhill is a Self-publishing company we are also aware that many authors wish to do the entire process themselves and we have always been very happy to assist those with that level of commitment.  Our philosophy is that the better all Ebooks look and read the more credibility Indie publishing will achieve.  It benefits our own authors if the reading public and critics have a healthy respect for self-published books.

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Now that we can see vigorous growth in the Ebook market even more of us ‘closet writers’ are going to come out and publish our own books without the ‘help’ of either Mainstream publishers or Self-publishing support services. With so many new books hitting the market it is even more important today to make…

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How New Writers are Taken in by Author Solutions and Penguin

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How Author Solutions / Penguin Squeezes Newbie Writers

Customers are captured through a variety of deceptive means – such as fake “independent” websites which purport to review all the self-publishing options available to writers (but only compare the various Author Solutions imprints); fake social media profiles pretending to be writers or “publishing consultants” (who only recommend Author Solutions companies); and, a “bounty” to various unscrupulous parties to deliver Author Solutions fresh blood.

Obviously, Author Solutions needs to use such deceptive measures because authors who have used its services aren’t recommending it to their fellow writers. Instead, they are warning them away.

Once Author Solutions has a writer’s contact details, it moves fast – endlessly harassing them by phone and email until they cave and purchase an overpriced publishing package…. read more:

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Penguin Random House is speeding up the international expansion of its vanity press operations, while also seeking to integrate them more closely with the traditional side of the business – hoping to counteract flat growth for Author Solutions at a time when self-publishing is booming.

Author Solutions launches a new self-publishing service company for the Spanish market next Tuesday – MeGustaEscribir – which contains the usual mix of crappy publishing packages and ineffective, overpriced marketing services, as well as some extremely questionable practices such as reading fees (more on that below).

The way the Author Solutions scam typically operates is detailed exhaustively in this post, but here’s a brief summary.

How Author Solutions Squeezes Newbie Writers

Customers are captured through a variety of deceptive means – such as fake “independent” websites which purport to review all the self-publishing options available to writers (but only compare the various Author Solutions…

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