ePublishing in Audio Form

This is the fifth in a series of essays on electronic publishing. The others can be found here: Essay 1 Essay 2 Essay 3 Essay 4 Back in the first essay, when I defined the way I am using the term electronic publishing, I left the definition open wide enough… Continue reading

eBook File Formats

This is the fourth in a series of essays on electronic publishing. Previous essays can be found by following the links below. Essay 1 Essay 2 Essay 3 As the electronic publishing world expands, the number of file formats grows, too. We’ll look at three major file formats, PDF, ePub,… Continue reading

ePublishing Your Backlist

This is the third essay in a series on electronic publishing. The first essay is here, the second is here. In this emerging world of electronic publishing, everything is changing. For the traditional publishers, that may not be a good thing. For the authors, it spells opportunity. As I discussed… Continue reading

eBooks – Traditional or Self-Publish?

This is the second in a series of essays on electronic publishing. The first essay can be found here. With electronic books gaining traction, the entire publishing landscape is starting to change. These changes are happening with considerable momentum, like a big rig rolling down a gradual slope. It isn’t… Continue reading

eBooks – What Are They?

This is the first of a series of related blog posts on electronic publishing. There is a lot of discussion out on the internet about this, but I want to add my own voice and opinions on the subject. Before that, we need a working definition of eBooks so readers… Continue reading

I know it Needs Copy Editing

eBooks for the 21st-Centory Author needs a little copy editing, to be sure. I posted as-is because there were a few people who wanted a copy quickly. I expect that I’ll have a cleaner copy up by the middle of the week. I’ll call it version 1.1. By the way,… Continue reading

eBooks for the 21st-Century Author Released

I just uploaded the first version of my new eBook titled eBooks fo rthe 21st-Century Author. It is a tutorial intended for writers who want to make their backlist available in electronic form. The tutorial walks the reader through the creation of a PDF document, an ePub document, and a… Continue reading

New Story Available – Magnetic Monopoly

I’ve been preparing to start moving my short stories into the Kindle store, starting with the “How to…” series. For Kindle, I placed all three stories into one volume. That will also be available on my own web site soon. As part of Amazon’s agreement, I cannot sell anything available… Continue reading

More Progress

I’m positioning myself to open a Kindle account for my fiction. In process of that, I registered a new domain name to use in the publisher field. I now own www.entropy-central.net, which redirects over to www.ricknovy.com. (I also bougth www.entropy-central.info because it was under a dollar.  It redirects the same… Continue reading