Digital Publishing – Covering trends, ebooks, self-publishing, reviews, metadata, EPUB3

Jun 13

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Thursday

BookExpo America 2013

by Sabrina

I attended my last BEA as a resident of the east coast (though I’m sure I’ll find a way to get back there next year). Although I was pressed for time and unable to make any of the panels this year, I met some really amazing people, publishers, and startups. One of my favorite booths was Indie Bestsellers, [...]

May 13

27

Wednesday

E-Book Review: The Wizard in Wonderland

by Sabrina

The Wizard in Wonderland by Ron Glick, illustrated by Kayla Perisho Dorothy Gale has been to some strange lands, but none as unexpected as 19th century Oxford, England. Yet this is exactly where Dorothy meets Alice Liddell, a young woman with her own fanciful stories of a place called Wonderland. Alice finds herself pulled into Oz to [...]

Digital and Social Book Discovery

by Sabrina EBooks

Jellybooks Widgets for Book Samples

Digital Book World hosted an interesting webcast today, called Finding Books Without Borders: Discoverability in a Digital and Social World. Two fairly new companies, Jellybooks and Readmill, talked about how they tackle the issue in their own ways.

Write or Read is Launching!

by Sabrina Publishing

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After nearly a year in the making, an alpha launch, and an initial user base of over 2,000 people, I’m happy to announce that my co-founder and I will be launching the public beta of Write or Read this month. If you aren’t already familiar with Write or Read, it is a subscription site for self-published e-books. [...]

Immersive Storytelling

by Sabrina Future

Transmedia, apps, and other forms of immersive storytelling are getting more and more popular. For large worlds like Harry Potter, Star Wars, and Game of Thrones, to name a few well-known examples, immersive storytelling can be a great extension or better way to connect with readers.

Self-publishing, the Slush Pile, and Print Books

by Sabrina Self-Publishing

Self-publishing may be the new slush pile. In the past, the slush pile has been the pile of unsolicited manuscripts sent by aspiring authors in hopes of being picked up by a publisher. Now, some publishers are looking to pick up books that have already proven to be successful. They offer authors bigger advances and [...]

E-Book Review: Tarinel’s Song

by Sabrina Book Reviews

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Tarinel’s Song by Ron Glick, illustrated by Eda Christianson The world will end with the sounding of Tarinel’s Song – or so the prophecy claims. Yet when the prophecy is fulfilled and the world continues on, it becomes clear that there is more to the prophecy than is commonly known. The fate of the world rests upon [...]

Marketing Indie Books

by Sabrina Marketing

Marketing can be a tricky aspect of self-publishing. On the one hand, there’s really no limit to the amount of money you can spend doing it, but there are a lot of ways to be ineffective. Below are a few guidelines I’ve learned from experience and heard about from other writers on creating effective marketing [...]

Power Outages and Print Books

by Sabrina Musings

I’ve experienced a number of power outages the last couple years (interestingly, more so in the last two years than the rest of my life so far), and it got me thinking about e-books.

Bundling E-Books

by Sabrina EBooks

The concept of bundling books is not new. Many trilogies or series are bundled and sold as packages. But, bundling e-books is fairly new. Humble Bundle was the first one to do it, as far as I know, and they started with a package that offered books from Cory Doctorow, Neil Gaiman, and more. The interesting [...]

Building the Next Generation of YA Stars (Webinar)

by Sabrina EBooks

Last month I attended a webinar hosted by Publisher’s Weekly, called “Building the Next Generation of YA Stars.” The speakers included the editorial director of Disney-Hyperion and the executive editor of Harlequin Teen. Together they covered new marketing strategies for YA novels, trends, and what they look for when acquiring books. Marketing According to them, YA books have more [...]

Publishing as a Function

by Sabrina Future

Mike Shatzkin wrote an interesting post about how, ten years from now, people in publishing might not be working in publishing-specific companies. Instead, other companies may branch out to include publishing books as one of their strategies. And so publishing may become like an accounting job, where every company has publishing employees and theoretically you could [...]

6 Tips to Successfully Crowdfund a Project

by Sabrina Funding

Crowdfunding is hard. To do it successfully, and to be like the high profile projects on Kickstarter, Indie Go Go and other platforms and raise thousands, hundreds of thousands, and even millions of dollars means treating the crowdfunding process like a full-time job. Here are some tips I’ve learned the last couple years, both from experimenting with crowdfunding [...]

What Self-Publishing and Internet Marketing Have in Common

by Sabrina Information

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For those of you who don’t know, ClickBank is an affiliate marketing website. People can sign up to either sell their information products, or to promote products and receive a cut of the sale. Recently I was looking through ClickBank’s site, and I stumbled across their tips for Internet marketers. Many of their tips can also be [...]

Writing for the Holidays

by Sabrina Marketing

I’ve heard this from several writers, especially ones that self-publish children’s books: write books that revolve around a holiday. With St. Patrick’s Day coming up, I thought I’d post about it.

Grammar Humor

by Sabrina Grammar Mistakes

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A little chuckle to kick off a Friday… That’s a big truck–must carry a lot of AAA batteries *wink wink*!

What Do Authors Want?

by Sabrina Future

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Digital Book World hosted a webinar a while back, called “What Authors Want.” The webinar was meant to promote DBW’s survey of 5,000 authors. The survey was submitted to the Writer’s Digest community (whose writers tend to be female and over 35, and write fiction), as well as SFWA (mostly male fiction writers), Romance Writers of America (mostly female writers), and [...]

E-Books in the Global Marketplace

by Sabrina EBooks

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Last November, I attended an interesting webinar co-hosted by BISG and DBW, called E-Books in the Global Marketplace. Though this post is a little late, the information is still relevant, and I think it’s worth sharing some of the findings.

Book Discoveries and Recommendations

by Sabrina Information

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For self-publishers, after writing a book, the next biggest step is making people aware that it exists and is worth reading. But in such a saturated market, it can be hard to get your book discovered. Here are three book recommendation tools. Word of mouth is still the most effective way to make a book [...]

KYS Realm and Transmedia, the Future of Storytelling

by Sabrina Future

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Technology lends itself to new creative forms of storytelling. One example is transmedia, a new technique of storytelling that involves enhancing the experience through multiple platforms, such as books, videos, and even live events. The Elements Club is one such transmedia series, where every few months a new segment telling the tales of a quirky, yet [...]

More Resources for Digital Publishing

by Sabrina Information

I’ve extended my blog to include a large, hopefully helpful, list of resources that cover all aspects of digital publishing: agents, analytics, apps, associations, blogging, coding, contests/awards, design, distribution, ebooks, editing, entrepreneurial, funding, internships, jobs, legal, magazines, marketing, metadata, news, reading, reviews, self-publishing, startups, trends, video, webinars, and writing. (If I’ve missed anything, please let me [...]

Treasures of The Morgan Library & Museum

by Sabrina Publishing

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Last weekend, I finally visited The Morgan Library & Museum, which houses J.P. Morgan’s collection of art and books. The special exhibit currently on display celebrates the 100th anniversary of Du côté de chez Swann by Marcel Proust. Interestingly, Proust self-published his book in 1913 (with the help of a backer).

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