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E-book improvements favour professional publishers - new formats require real skills

Site Admin — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:57:41 -0600

E-books are becoming more sophisticated. But you're going to need professional-level skills to take advantage of the improvements

Hacktivism: assessing the damage - what's the real significance of Anonymous and LulzSec?

Site Admin — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 03:10:36 -0600

Anonymous and LulzSec have hit the headlines with their hacking stunts, but is it possible that what they're doing has no real significance for information security?

Loota: sell the stuff you nicked - I think I've spotted a publishing opportunity

Site Admin — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 14:31:36 -0600

I think I've spotted a publishing opportunity

Electronic book or paperback? Why are some e-books more expensive than print versions?

Site Admin — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:35:26 -0600

In this guest blog, author Clare Le May asks why some e-books are more expensive than their print counterparts. Shouldn't they be cheaper?

Memo to NatWest: It's not the 19-fucking-80s

Site Admin — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:29:15 -0600

NSFW - if you work for NatWest

The Kindle pricing problem - why some of your e-book customers end up paying too much

Site Admin — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 14:13:48 -0600

When you publish on the Kindle, you set your own price. But some customers will end up paying much more

Getting the price right - with e-books, pricing is everything

Site Admin — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 14:08:58 -0600

E-books should be cheap - so why is that not always the case?

Creating ePub files with InDesign CS5 - output ebook files directly from Adobe's DTP software

Site Admin — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 17:56:04 -0600

InDesign CS5 does an excellent job of creating ePub e-book documents, but you might still want to do a little tweaking

Amazon passes the e-book tipping point - sells more e-books than paperbacks

Site Admin — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 11:14:48 -0700

Online retailer now sells more e-books than paperbacks

Drowning in choice - all bad: The web seems to make it harder to find decent clipart

Site Admin — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 00:58:17 -0700

The web seems to make it harder to find decent clipart

PubIt! misses the point: e-publishing is international, something Barnes & Noble seems to have overlooked

Site Admin — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 04:30:57 -0600

E-publishing is a truly international business - something Barnes & Noble seems to have overlooked

First few days with the third-generation Kindle

Site Admin — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:09:50 -0600

Okay, so I caved. I still think the Kindle is a dead-end technology. But I bought one anyway.

Creating e-books with iWork Pages - The recently updated Pages application now has an ePub export

Site Admin — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:55:24 -0600

The recently updated Pages application now has an ePub export — there's no simpler way to create your e-book.

Publishing workflow: e-books are easier with paragraph styles

Site Admin — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 19:57:28 -0600

One of the keys to success with an e-book workflow is getting your paragraph and character styles sorted.

What a cheeky phisher - Most scam emails are easy to spot and trash. But this one made me pause before hitting 'delete'.

Site Admin — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 01:24:23 -0600

Most scam emails are easy to spot and trash. But this one made me pause before hitting 'delete'.