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Want to make your own ereader cover? Here are 50 ideas to get you started
The blog ebookcases.org has put together a fairly exhaustive list of DIY cases, covers, wraps and sleeves for your Kindle. (But really for any of the current major ereaders.) If you’re feeling up to a little hot glue and scissors … Continue reading
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Dehydrated books, or how to make money off of fan fiction and unauthorized sequels
Imagine that this evening I follow a friend’s link to a new Harry Potter book, one that essentially replaces “The Sorcerer’s Stone” in the canon with a Year 1 adventure that’s darker and closer in tone to the final few … Continue reading
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Tagged amateur, copyright, digital, fanfic, fans, ideas, infringement, publishing, technology, tools
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Harkaway's four strategies for digital publishing
On Futurebook.net, the digital blog launched by UK magazine Bookseller, Nick Harkaway just published two insightful pieces on digital publishing. Maybe I think they’re insightful because they speak to my own prejudices, but I do think he makes clear, logical … Continue reading
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Tagged apps, business plans, digital publishing, drm, ebooks, ideas, windowing
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Creating anthologies on demand
What if you could visit Amazon or Barnes & Noble and create your own anthology about any topic you want? Why can’t you already? Continue reading
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Tagged customized, digital, ebooks, hypothetical, ideas, pod, predictions, print on demand, printing, texts, user experience narratives
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Brainstorming the future of ebooks
What will the future of digital publishing look like? Here are some ideas on how publishing may evolve in the coming years, as ebooks continue to grow in popularity. Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, digital, e-books, e-ink, ebooks, eink, forecasts, future, ideas, ideation, industry, kindle, opinion, publishing, suggestions
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How Kindle’s new Public Notes could change the way we read ebooks
Someone else may have already noted this, but it took me four days to realize the game-changing potential of the upcoming Public Notes feature Amazon is bringing to the Kindle. If authors and celebrities take to it the way they’ve … Continue reading →