by Lee Purcell | Feb 10, 2015 | Create
The early Internet was a dreary, gray, text-based world, constructed at a time when slow bandwidths prevailed and web browser standards hadn’t coalesced. Today, visuals are integral to effective web communication, setting the tone and tenor of the accompanying...
by Lee Purcell | Jan 4, 2015 | Discover
The list of wildly successfully authors who initially accumulated piles of rejection slips from publishers is a long one. Count J.K. Rowling, James Patterson, Stephen King, Agatha Christie, and James Lee Burke among the members of this elite group. Some took to...
by Lee Purcell | Jan 2, 2015 | Interview, Meet
When Connie Brooks and her husband founded Battenkill Books in 2009 in the small village of Cambridge, NY, the determined move was accompanied by a fair amount of trepidation. At the time, the economy was in the midst of a serious recession, the popularity of ebooks...
by Lee Purcell | Jan 2, 2015 | Feature, Interview, Meet
In a field that is still too young to have many luminaries, Joanna Penn stands out as a prolific, talented author of both fiction and non-fiction work; a popular speaker and educator with a friendly, engaging style; and a crusader for independent authors seeking to...
by Lee Purcell | Jan 2, 2015 | Beginner, Sell
In a BookBaby post from last month, Chris Robley weighed in on the ebook piracy issue, discussing an NeoMam Studios produced infographic that also appeared in an Encremento story. The bottom line: fears about ebook piracy are vastly overstated. Among the raft of...
by Lee Purcell | Dec 31, 2014 | Beginner, Meet
View image | gettyimages.com On the occasion of accepting an award from the National Book Foundation—the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters—Ursula K. Le Guin offered some cautionary words on the future of publishing and some inspiring words on...
by Lee Purcell | Dec 31, 2014 | Beginner, Discover
The ebook subscription service Scribd has just expanded its catalog offerings with a mountain of audiobooks—30,000, if you’re counting. This is a small fraction of the existing Scribd ebook catalog, which now surpasses 500,000 titles, but it represents a...
by Lee Purcell | Dec 29, 2014 | Learn
Unlike those books lining the shelves in your living room, the ownership of books in the amorphous digital realm is much less clearcut. As Michael Kozlowski points out in this article for Good E-Reader, “When Amazon sells you an eBook for the Kindle, they have...
