It’s been a very long time since I wrote a blog post on this website, it’s partly because I am really busy formatting books that I don’t have a lot of time to talk about formatting them. So in this very brief message, I am still here, drowning in many books to format… and if you’re […]
Mar 18, 2013
FAQ: How to Upload your eBook to Amazon Kindle
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I get asked quite a bit how you upload your finished (and formatted) eBook to Amazon Kindle. Well in this blog post I am going to try and run through the process in very easy terms and screenshots so you can see exactly what you need to do. First things first you need to sign-up […]
Jan 21, 2013
Self Publishing & eBooks – 5 Most Popular Posts
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I haven’t been blogging for long on this blog, but I thought I would do a stats post today, just in case you have missed some of the more popular posts. Number 5 Do’s & Don’ts of eBook Formatting I originally posted this on my other blog, but when I launched this new blog I […]
Jan 14, 2013
12 Steps to Format an eBook
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After formatting books for some time now I decided that I would create a very simple Microsoft Word template which authors can use to write their books (for those who like writing in Word obviously). It’s basically a blank document, but the styles I have set-up are all ready to be used to create a […]
Jan 8, 2013
How are eBooks Evolving?
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Do you own any eBooks which have ‘extras’? By extras I mean similar to a DVD when they have the bonus features, or maybe video or animation. Like everything else these days, eBooks are evolving as I speak and I have already had an enquiry this year about placing video within an eBook. I found out that […]
Jan 4, 2013
Paperback or eBook?
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Enquirers sometimes ask me whether they should publish a paperback or an eBook, so I thought I should let you all know my opinion on this subject. eBooks are very easy to publish now we have the likes of Amazon KDP and Smashwords. You write your book, get it proofread, format it yourself or get […]
Dec 10, 2012
The Importance of Being Ernest About Editing
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By James A Bresco James A Bresco. A well traveled and freedom loving adventurous male. James, a confirmed bachelor, closer to sixty than ever before, is passionate about writing and sailing, loves cooking; and thrives on Asian food, James lives aboard his boat and has no plans of going ashore, just yet. The day my […]
Nov 29, 2012
Poll Results: How much do you pay for eBooks?
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A slightly delayed results post from a poll I conducted on my other website in February this year about how much you pay for eBooks. The good thing about leaving it so long to publish the results is that the polls have picked up a fair amount of votes in that time – not a […]
Nov 16, 2012
eBook Formatting – Creating a Linked Table of Contents Manually
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eBook Formatting Tips Series – Video 1 When I started to think about having a channel on YouTube I wasn’t really sure what sort of videos I would create. After having had a steady stream of eBooks to format over the last couple of months and many people on my social media networks asking me […]
