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Now that your book is finished, what happens next? We're here to guide you through the publishing process, from editorial to distribution and sales.

Mark Coker: Introduction to Ebook Publishing

by Laura Dawson
Bowker | Mon Jul 1, 2013

Mark Coker, founder of Smashwords, has shared his primer on ebook publishing with SelfPublishedAuthor.com. In this presentation, Mark discusses the trend of digital reading, self-published author success, and the nuts and bolts of what you need to publish an ebook. Follow the link below to read Mark's slides.

Introduction to Ebook Publishing from Smashwords, Inc.

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Beyond the Giants: An Introduction to Emerging E-Retailers

by Allison Horton
Bowker | Thu Jun 20, 2013

For any author—and publisher—navigating the sea of digital-book retailers is no easy feat. Amazon, iBookstore, and Barnes & Noble are the well-known giants, together accounting for an estimated 95% of the ebook market. But what about those other e-retailers making a splash: Kobo, Samsung, Sony, Google Play, and Baker & Taylor? Below we dive into these emerging markets:

Kobo

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More on Digi-Rights Self-Clear©

by Robert Kasher
Bowker | Tue Jun 18, 2013

Digi-Direct℗ a new service from Bowker, found on its MyIdentifiers site, gives independent authors access to the first patent-protected, automated, comprehensive Rights Management solution. Digi-Direct℗ helps you:

Get a Rights Assessment on Your Manuscript
Clear Rights and Permissions
Register Your Rights for Others to See and Access
License Your Rights to the Global Marketplace

This will help you avoid legal problems, make your content ‘rights compliant’, as well as generate new potential sources of revenue. Rights compliance is important as more and more libraries, educational institutions and other organizations - including some distributors - are requiring some type of rights audit to insure that content from Independent authors is valid and cleared.

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Going Digital? Don’t Make These Ebook Errors

by Matt Cavnar
Bowker | Mon Jun 17, 2013

Ebooks have revolutionized self publishing; opening the door to authorial success for anyone with a keyboard and an Internet connection. A myriad of marketplaces, each with their own special requirements, can raise some complications for the first-time digital author. So when first putting a title up for sale, it’s critical to make sure your ebook renders well across all devices. Save yourself from nasty comments criticizing poor formatting by easily avoiding these three big errors (learned through Vook’s own experience creating thousands of ebooks):

Error #1: Only designing an ebook for a specific device

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Beyond the Giants: An Introduction to Emerging E-Retailers

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Going Digital? Don’t Make These Ebook Errors

Pages

Getting Started

Create a Culture of Quality in Your Publishing Company

FAQs about ISBNs

How to Write a Business Plan as Narrative (Part 2 of 2)

A Novel Planning Technique for Book Publishers (Part 1 of 2)

Do You Have the Write Stuff?