May 9, 2014
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What is DRM? Digital Rights Management, or DRM, is, theoretically, a way to protect the creator of digital content, like music, documents, films and e-books, against piracy and illegal copying. We are all aware that piracy is a big problem. … Continue reading
May 6, 2014
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In our previous post on this topic, we explained how to publish your book through KDP and how do pricing and royalties work. In this part we will take a look at the tax withholding on royalties for US And … Continue reading
May 2, 2014
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Given its huge customer base, authors, established or new, all covet the idea of their books being listed on Amazon. Besides Kindle is the most popular e-reader in the market. Amazon is a big company and it is still growing. So, … Continue reading
April 29, 2014
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An e-book writer has a growing number of options for how to get his/ her book out to the public. Publishing your e-book has never been easier. but that can present many challenges. With so many e-book platforms—old, new, and … Continue reading
April 25, 2014
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You have written a book. A romance, a thriller, a mystery or a self-help book!. You have created your blog, website and social media presence. Now what? Just because you built it does not mean they will come. Now comes … Continue reading
April 22, 2014
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InstaScribe’s co-creator Jaya Jha tried Kindle for Samsung. — Samsung and Amazon have released a galaxy-only
February 20, 2014
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We had written about an issue we were facing while uploading our files to Kindle through KDP. We have been able to resolve that now. The older renderers for Kindle had weak support for some CSS features. The “Look Inside” … Continue reading
February 12, 2014
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It seems the older versions of Kindle and “Look Inside” features do not support descendant CSS selectors well. We are now trying to flatten the CSS and retry. Hopefully that should resolve the issue our e-books have with “Look Inside” … Continue reading
February 3, 2014
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We have talked about ebook reading devices like Kindle, Nook, Sony Reader and Kobo eReader on this blog. We have also discussed their corresponding reader apps. But this is not where the choices end for readers. There are a bunch of … Continue reading
January 20, 2014
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The most important reason EPUB and Mobi came up as the widely accepted formats for e-books is their support for reflowing of text. This makes it easy and comfortable to read the content on devices of different screen sizes. Since … Continue reading