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Thoughts on Tools of Change

by Sabrina EBooks

I had the pleasure of attending the first day of the O’Reilly Tools of Change (TOC) conference this year. It’s an annual conference that mainly covers digital publishing, and it’s nearly as good as Books in Browsers. There were a lot of great talks and some interesting startups and companies on exhibit, but I’m going to focus this [...]

E-Book Review: Orphans

by Sabrina Book Reviews

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Orphans: Time is Running Out by Ian Dewar For centuries three humanoid species shared this world. One was eliminated, leaving two, ourselves and the vampires! Unlike those of legend, vampires live for the most part unseen alongside their human counterparts, sharing their likes and dislikes, loves and tragedies, their lust for blood controlled by the synthetic… until [...]

How Amazon Works

by Sabrina Publishing

Today is a day of posting links to really interesting articles. First up, Eugene Wei wrote an interesting analytical blog post about why Amazon’s business model is one that aims to have low margins: Amazon, Apple, and the beauty of low margins And secondly, The Guardian posted a piece on how Amazon struggles with its customer book [...]

Polishing a Self-Published Book

by Sabrina Design

I read a couple really helpful articles on Digital Book World that can help indie authors. The first gives some tips on how to design a cover optimized for Amazon, and all the other retailers where readers only see a thumbnail image. The second article gives a list of front matter and other tips on [...]

Promoting a Self-Published Novel

by Sabrina Self-Publishing

I recently decided to be more active on Quora, and today I stumbled across a really great question by a self-published author. The question was, “What are some ways I can promote my self-published novel?” There were some really great responses. One answerer recommended YouTube book trailers, Facebook pages, and Twitter handles. The Facebook page [...]

Trends and Startups in Book Publishing

by Sabrina EBooks

The last couple years have been a time of change for the publishing industry, and I expect this year to be the same. Every few weeks I’ve been hearing about new startups and ventures that expect to–and probably will–disrupt publishing. I think it’s worth sharing some of them here, and what their success could mean [...]

Living in a Sci-Fi World

by Sabrina Future

CES (Consumer Electronics Association) was last week, and companies demoed a lot of really cool gadgets. One I think is worth sharing is a product by Tactus, a company in California. Tactus developed a screen that can turn into a flat tablet into something with actual bumpy buttons, to make it easier to type. When [...]

Dealing With Negative Reviews

by Sabrina Marketing

Last summer, I dealt with my very first negative review. It was for the first book of my publishing company, a collection of flash fiction, and I had given the book away for free on LibraryThing in hopes of getting more reviews. Now, even though this was not my book in the sense that I [...]

Why Traditionally Published Authors Are Going Indie

by Sabrina Publishing

Read my first Huffington Post article, about traditionally published authors who have been publishing their own books. I’m thankful to have been able to interview such a talented and interesting group of people! Click here to read it. (Also posted on IndieReader and The Passive Voice).

The Coming of Age of E-Textbooks?

by Sabrina EBooks

I’m not as familiar with what’s going on with e-textbooks, but there seems to have been a lot of exciting developments recently. One thing I often hear about e-textbooks is that, despite the expectation that young people, particularly college students, would be the first to eagerly adopt all things digital, most students don’t like e-textbooks [...]

Smashwords: An upgrade to help indie authors sell better ebooks

by Sabrina EBook Conversion

On the last day of 2012, Smashwords made an exciting announcement: authors can now directly upload epubs to the site. This might not sound like a big deal, but it kind of is. According to the Smashwords blog, as of December 31, 2012, Smashwords became “the world’s largest distributor of ebooks from self-published authors and [...]

E-Book Review: A Child Lost in Flight

by Sabrina Book Reviews

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A Child Lost in Flight: Moving on after tragedy on Flight 229 by Mohan K A Child Lost in Flight is a first person account of a father coming to grips with the sudden death of his child on an international flight. The story is about his tragedy and the author’s experiences in recovering and moving on. [...]

E-Book Review: One

by Sabrina Book Reviews

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One by Ron Glick, illustrated by Pamela L Phelps For generations, the Gods have been at war. Two rival pantheons, the Old Gods and the New Order, have been vying for the faith of the mortal realm. Bound by the covenants between mortals and themselves, the Old Gods have all but vanished from the land. Now Malik, [...]

Radio Interview on The 13th Cycle

by Sabrina Fiction

Listen to my radio interview on Talk Story TV for The 13th Cycle! Thank you Julia, for such a wonderful experience. Listen to internet radio with Talk Story Radio and TV on Blog Talk Radio

E-Book Review: Golden Biker

by Sabrina Action-Adventure

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Golden Biker by Alexander von Eisenhart Rothe Brought together in India through a series of hare-brained adventures are Arthur, an old bohemian from Cologne; Albert, otherwise known as Bear, a snack bar owner who emigrated to Goa; Gerd, a German businessman with a mid-life crisis; and Sherie, a stunningly good-looking prostitute from Bombay. Together, they embark [...]

E-book Review: Letters I Wish I Had Sent

by Sabrina Book Reviews

Letters I Wish I Had Sent by Preston Randall Preston Randall isn’t trying to rewrite Twilight to suck up some of the left over teen money. He’s not pumping out that sequel to The Illiad that everyone is beating down the bookstore doors to get – heck he’s not even trying to concoct the great American [...]

The 13th Cycle has been published!

by Sabrina EBooks

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My novella, The 13th Cycle is now available on my website, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and Smashwords. Thank you to everyone who helped me write this book! I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. Find out more below: “The 13th Cycle” by Sabrina Ricci on Ganxy

How Readers Discover New Books

by Sabrina Marketing

A while back I attended an interesting webcast hosted by Digital Book World, titled “How Social Networks and New Media Are Changing the Ways Readers Discover New Books.” One thing I’ve learned from past webinars is that social media doesn’t really affect book sales. And according to the webcast, publishers only impact 7% of overall [...]

Interview on The 13th Cycle

by Sabrina Fiction

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Kris Sampler, author of Love Train, was kind enough to interview me on his blog for The 13th Cycle. Read it on his blog, at http://kriswampler.wordpress.com/2012/12/03/sabrina-ricci/. Find out more about my novella, The 13th Cycle, at http://www.sabrinaricci.com/books/shop/the13thcycle/.

E-Books v. P-Books

by Sabrina EBooks

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Wonderful infographic by http://www.teachingdegree.org/2012/11/26/ebooks-vs-print-books/ that shows how ebooks and print books can co-exist. The idea came from a study by the Pew Research Center about the rise of ebooks and people’s reading habits. According to the designers who created the infographic, a lot of the data showed how print books still dominate in a lot of [...]

Random House’s New Digital Imprints

by Sabrina EBooks

I got a good laugh today when I read Publisher Weekly‘s “Random House Launches New Digital-Only Imprints.” Why, you might ask? Well, because a group of friends and I had the exact same idea in 2011.

The Evolution of eBooks

by Sabrina EBooks

What will ebooks look like in the future? Every new medium has growing pains. At first, the structure tends to mimic whatever is familiar, but over time it expands in to new territory.

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