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How do I use Google AdWords to lead potential readers to my WattPad story?
I have a 90k word story that I want to publish on WattPad, and I plan to "religiously" follow all their promotion guides.
I don't see using Google AdWords anywhere in the guide. How can I ...
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Text size on images for pdf ebooks
I have designed an ebook using very specific formatting and graphics that need to be maintained. As such, I am converting the individual pages into image files, and then publishing the complete book ...
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Do I have to attribute Apache font license when using it for e-book and print book?
I'm currently in the process of writing a book, and I'm using mostly OFL fonts in it, but I also find some Apache licensed fonts very attractive and would like to use them.
The condition for using ...
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What should I know to publsh a new paperback from KDP
For the past few days I have had zero access to CreateSpace; nothing else under createspace.com has given me a webpage, even an error page.
What is going on now?
How good or bad are Amazon KDP for ...
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Page numbering. Empty pages for notes include in page numbering?
I have a few questions about the page numbering of the last few pages of my book.
I have a section with further resources. It contains one page with information about a site and three more pages with ...
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Is it better to self-publish or get a real publisher for a 100page humor/comedy ebook?
I plan on writing an ebook that's exactly 100 pages in length.
This book will be comedy, basically my humorous take on situations.
I think it's adequate as an ebook since ideally you'll read a page on ...
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Publishing an e-Textbook
My father is a professor at a local university, and he writes his own textbooks. He wants to start self-publishing them in an e-book format. The issue is that he wants to publish them so that the ...
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Is a QR card linked to the PDF of a book a good idea?
This is a publishing question. The idea is: someone with a smartphone gets the card, scans the QR code printed on it, and downloads the PDF of your book off the web. I would have thought that a PDF ...
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For Sci-Fi books, what is the purchasing split between regular and ebooks?
I can get the data for ALL books. But can anyone direct me to regular/ebook purchasing data broken down by genre (specifically sci-fi)?
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How do I create a book on iBookstore without having a Mac?
I use Linux, and I'd like to format a book for the iBookstore. When I go to signup to iTunes Connect to upload my books, it
says:
3. Download iTunes Producer
Download our delivery application, ...
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Kindle self-publishing, automatically update
I have a couple of small ebooks available on Amazon via Kindle direct publishing - I've just found a mistake in one of them so I fixed it and have reuploaded the file. I'm assuming that everyone who ...
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What is the business model for Creative Commons books?
I notice that a lot of computer and programming books are now licensed under various permutations of the creative commons license. Half of the books published by No Starch Press and Apress (at least ...
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of digital rights management for self-published authors?
DRM (digital rights management) is being used in just about every electronic format, including files used in electronic readers. My question is whether this is a good thing or a bad thing for writers, ...
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Why do ebooks often mimic the layout of the printed page?
I was recently editing a novel destined to be published primarily in e-book form, and made a list of pre-press instructions, to be followed when the final text is agreed upon. Some of these ...
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Is it wise to publish a novel as an e-book, and how would I do it?
I'm considering publishing my novel as an e-book (since I'm very techy) before I take the usual "paperback" route. Is this a wise choice?
Also what would I need to do? (steps).
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ePublishing Conference Proceedings
We have an annual conference, and as part of this conference, we have a curated collection of papers published. Circulation is pretty minimal, so we are working on getting out of dead tree land and ...
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Will e-books prevent books from going out of print (and rights from reverting)?
In the old days, books went out of print shortly after it stopped being profitable for the publisher to print new runs. My understanding is that good contracts had clauses that caused the rights to ...
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Publishing for Kindle
I am very keen to get into writing, and have come up with several outline plots for short stories, novels and even trilogies. However, one hurdle, which I expect is not uncommon for most new authors, ...
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