Manuscript to Ebook: A Cleaning Guide
By David Kudler Over the last couple of months, I’ve been talking about just what an ebook is, and four basic methods for creating them. This month, I’m going to get a bit more into the nitty-gritty —...
View Articlee-Book Cover Design Awards, August 2015
Welcome to the e-Book Cover Design Awards. This edition is for submissions during August, 2015. This month we received: 104 covers in the Fiction category 8 covers in the Nonfiction category Comments,...
View Articlee-Book Cover Design Awards, September 2015
Welcome to the e-Book Cover Design Awards. This edition is for submissions during September, 2015. This month we received: 115 covers in the Fiction category 14 covers in the Nonfiction category Guest...
View Articlee-Book Cover Design Awards, October 2015
Welcome to the e-Book Cover Design Awards. This edition is for submissions during October, 2015. This month we received: 111 covers in the Fiction category 19 covers in the Nonfiction category...
View Articlee-Book Cover Design Awards, November 2015
Welcome to the e-Book Cover Design Awards. This edition is for submissions during November, 2015. This month we received: 109 covers in the Fiction category 17 covers in the Nonfiction category...
View ArticleThe Ebook Retail Universe
I realized after my last post (looking at ebook conversion tools) that in my excitement in finally getting to the nuts and bolts of ebook creation that I’d skipped over online conversion tools. Most of...
View Articlee-Book Cover Design Awards, December 2015
Welcome to the e-Book Cover Design Awards. This edition is for submissions during December, 2015. This month we received: 85 covers in the Fiction category 21 covers in the Nonfiction category...
View Article2015 eBook Cover Design Winners
The first edition of the eBook Cover Design Awards came out in August, 2011. Since then we’ve published thousands of covers and critiques, skewered the covers that seemed wanting, and praised the...
View Articlee-Book Cover Design Awards, January 2016
Welcome to the e-Book Cover Design Awards. This edition is for submissions during January, 2016. This month we received: 157 covers in the Fiction category 27 covers in the Nonfiction category...
View ArticleWhy a PDF Isn’t an Ebook
When I started my series on ebook conversion, the first post was What IS an Ebook. I made the point that, for my purposes and those of the series, an ebook was an ePub file — what I called a website in...
View Articlee-Book Cover Design Awards, February 2016
Welcome to the e-Book Cover Design Awards. This edition is for submissions during February, 2016. This month we received: 103 covers in the Fiction category 20 covers in the Nonfiction category...
View Articlee-Book Cover Design Awards, March 2016
Welcome to the e-Book Cover Design Awards. This edition is for submissions during March, 2016. This month we received: 86 covers in the Fiction category 18 covers in the Nonfiction category Comments,...
View ArticleThe Convertible Cloud: Ebook Conversion Online
Previously, I’ve compared some of the computer apps that you can use to convert your manuscript into an ebook. This month I’ll talk about online conversion tools — all of the ones I’m going to discuss...
View Articlee-Book Cover Design Awards, April 2016
Welcome to the e-Book Cover Design Awards. This edition is for submissions during April, 2016. This month we received: 96 covers in the Fiction category 14 covers in the Nonfiction category Comments,...
View ArticleLaying Track: Tracking Ebook Links on Google Analytics
I planned on posting a brief intro to the HTML and CSS that a beginner should know to work on an ebook, but I’m in the middle of launching my YA historical novel Risuko this month, and so I need to...
View Articlee-Book Cover Design Awards, May 2016
Editor’s note: There was a “glitch” in the processing this month, resulting in The Awkward Ozarker being miscategorized. This was not detected until after publication. To make up for this we’ve decided...
View Articlee-Book Cover Design Awards, June 2016
Welcome to the e-Book Cover Design Awards. This edition is for submissions during June, 2016. This month we received: 104 covers in the Fiction category 17 covers in the Nonfiction category Comments,...
View Articlee-Book Cover Design Awards, July 2016
Welcome to the e-Book Cover Design Awards. This edition is for submissions during July, 2016. This month we received: 74 covers in the Fiction category 16 covers in the Nonfiction category Comments,...
View ArticleEbook Anatomy: Inside the Black Box
Over the next three posts, I’ll be showing you how ebooks are coded and formatted. You’ve heard me call an ebook a website in a box. This time we’re going to talk about what’s inside the box. First...
View Articlee-Book Cover Design Awards, August 2016
Welcome to the e-Book Cover Design Awards. This edition is for submissions during August, 2016. This month we received: 116 covers in the Fiction category 16 covers in the Nonfiction category Comments,...
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