Book Essentials Blog

With the popularity of Kindle, iBooks and other eBook formats, there's a growing interest in just how to get the format right. This article provides some good resources for how to publish your book to the Kindle format.

In the past a book was defined as anything printed between two covers. A list of telephone numbers was called a book, even though it had no logical beginning, middle, or end. A pile of blank pages bound with a spine was called a sketchbook. It was unabashedly empty, but it did have two covers, and was thus called a book.

Today the paper pages of a book are disappearing. What is left in their place is the conceptual structure of a book -- a bunch of text united by a theme into an experience that takes a while to complete. [Read Full Article at kk.org]

LibreDigital provides a wide range of digital publishing services to 7 of the top 10 US trade publishers. These services include distribution to e-book marketplaces, marketing and discovery tools, managed conversion services, and sales reporting and analytics through LibreDigital Business Intelligence. The new portal allows small to medium publishers to sign up online for distribution and conversion services online and achieve the quality levels that are necessary to gain distribution to over 50 global marketplaces. Distribution services are provided on a revenue share and file conversion services can be charged to the publisher's credit card based on the costs of converting from the original source.

 

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The book publishing industry is dead and they don’t know it. Its like how the typewriter industry died. And how companies like Blockbuster and Borders can’t survive. And the entire music industry is dying. And broadcast television might be on the way.  And the tablet industry is the first sign that companies like DELL might be in major trouble. And companies like Sirius mean the radio industry is dead.

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A digitally formatted book can be read on popular e-reading devices such as the Amazon Kindle, the Barnes & Noble Nook, and the Apple iPad. A recent survey shows 20 million people read e-books in 2010. The Association of American Publishers reports e-book sales toped $70 million in January 2011, a stellar 115.8 percent increase above the $32 million in sales logged January 2010. While there has been an upsurge in e-book sales, it still represents only about 9 percent of the overall book market which hit $805 million in total sales. [Read Full Story at inc.com]