BiblioCrunch | Self-Publishing Resouces

Last week on #IndieChat we discussed the pros and cons of ebook subscriptions.

You did it!  You finally finished your book and it is a masterpiece!  Now, all you have to do is get people to read it.  It’s time to take off the author hat and put on the marketer hat.  You have a book description to write.

After you finish writing your ebook, you are anxious to share it with the world and the process can prove frustrating when you are forced to hit the brakes in order to first create a viable marketing strategy.  It’s the old hurry up and wait ploy.  Ahh!  I feel your pain.

I would like to start this off by saying that I’ve been staring at my screen for…oh…twenty minutes trying to figure out what to write.

Kobo Inc. is the company that makes the Kobo eReader, and its headquarters is in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

We were excited to have Hugh Howey, author of Amazon bestseller, Wool, as our guest  on Tuesday’s #indiechat on 3/4/14.  Transcript is up!

Thinking about self-publishing and wanted to know about the biggest retailers for your digital and print books? We break it down for you in our easy to navigate guide below. A few years ago you had to use a distributor to get your books into all the major retailers.  Now, most retailers allow authors to […]

A question that I always get is what types of files do I need to create to get my book ready for book publishing.  If you’re going to hire a formatter we recommend three main filetypes for distribution to the major online retailers.

A few weeks ago we had EPUB mavens Colleen Cunningham (@bookdesigngirl) and Iris Febres (@epubpupil) from FWMedia join us on #indiechat. Colleen and Iris gave us an overview of the eBook production process and also shared best practices for QA’ing an eBook. Use their tips to make sure the eBook you put out into the […]

Are you tired of buying eBooks that are poorly formatted and designed? A lot of other readers are too. Proper interior design and packaging of an eBook is relatively easy and cheap compared to writing, editing, marketing, and the cover design of a book. However, eBooks on the market continue to have formatting errors that […]

As many of you may know we took over the twitter chat #indiechat. #Indiechat is held every Tuesday at 9pm EST. You can check out our previous chat logs on BiblioCrunch Storify. This week on #indiechat Kate Tilton (@Froze8) will be will be hosting from the BiblioCrunch twitter account (@BiblioCrunch) with guests Colleen Cunningham (@bookdesigngirl) and Iris Febres […]