Category Archives: e-books
One Micro-Publisher’s Book Sales
I spent some time this week analyzing our book sales over the past seven quarters (from January 2010 through September 2011). I knew our total sales had increased a lot and that eBooks had become the majority of our sales. I just didn’t realize quite how significantly things had changed in what is essentially a short span of time. The first, gratifying, news is that we are selling a lot more books. Continue reading
Get My eBooks Autographed!
Although I still don’t really see the point in having an “inscribed and autographed” copy of an eBook, particularly when it is not really in the author’s real handwriting, I have succumbed and posted three eBooks on Kindlegraph. Continue reading
Filed under e-books, Walt's books
New Novel Releasing First as E-book
My new book Once a Knight: A Novel of Aerial Combat & Romance in World War I will release beginning this week, first on Amazon Kindle. I just uploaded it and clicked on the Kindle Publish button on Amazon, so … Continue reading
Filed under e-books, Walt's books
Digital-Only Books Are Cultural Suicide
I suppose many people would read that headline and consider it heresy. Others probably don’t see a connection between e-books and the survival of a culture. So, bear with me a bit. This is something that’s been bugging me for … Continue reading
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Do You Want Your Books in Google’s Cloud?
There is an interesting article in Book Business magazine concerning Google’s vision for the future of books. Here’s a partial quote from comments made by Google’s Engineering Direction Dan Clancy: Part of Google’s vision, he noted, is that the digital … Continue reading
