What is the relationship between author, artist, publisher and book cover? Getting the right look for a book is not all that straightforward. This post explains how some of this stuff works, sometimes. [Continue]

If you're writing and publishing ebook fiction, here are some quirks to avoid if you want to succeed. [Continue]

Here's a quick and dirty three-step strategy for publishing non-fiction ebooks. In the world of ebook how-to, this is one effective bare bones approach to get into the market and create quick sales. Advice to a friend, spawned from my own ebook [Continue]

Newspapers are vanishing from the print media landscape. A history of consolidation and breakdowns in journalistic quality were the precursors, now the digitial information shift is the driving force. As we lose journalistic outlets the burning [Continue]

Social publishing allows an author to make a book available for free in electronic form, and encourages readers to rate it, share it, even re-use it if released under a Creative Commons license. This appears to have great synergy with driving [Continue]

Pdfs are a vestige of analog thinking in a digital world. This persistance of the outmoded is a common pattern when pervasive technological change happens, but the blogosphere and altered information habits is forcing a change. [Continue]