Comments on: Creating e-books

By: MoJo

MoJo — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:32:08 +0000

Karlene, you bet. My first post is going to be concerning Smashwords, which is the super-duper easy way to do it if you don't have a lot of fancy formatting. Also, I duplicated this post over on Publishing Renaissance, and there are some more comments on the subject you might want to check out.

By: Karlene

Karlene — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:54:13 +0000

I’d love to read a series on this. I’m trying to learn how to do it. I’ve been out of publishing for awhile but have considered going back in on a limited basis…Pretend I’m a first-grader and write your articles at that level.

By: MoJo

MoJo — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 13:53:55 +0000

Sure, I’ll duplicate it from here to there, but it’s going to be very sporadic. It takes a while to prepare teaching posts that are that detailed.

By: Zoe Winters

Zoe Winters — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:09:26 +0000

Hey MoJo, will you consider sharing some of this on PublishRen too? Rae has gotten bogged down and is only now going to be able to do a blog once or twice a month. I’m going to have to start filling up the guest blogger calendar, or getting permission from peeps to “reprint” some of their blog posts on the group blog. Because I can’t post 3 and 4 times a week there. It’s too much.

By: Eva Gale

Eva Gale — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:31:07 +0000

Huh?

*g*

By: MoJo

MoJo — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 14:38:18 +0000

Morris, of course you are and welcome!!! (I’ve been following you for a while, so I’m flattered. ::cheesy grin::)

I’m am fervently against DRM and the only way I lock up my PDFs is from changing content—and I certainly don’t encrypt any of my other formats.

I’ve never heard of e-junkie.com. I’ll go check that out. Thanks again!!!

By: Morris Rosenthal

Morris Rosenthal — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 14:32:40 +0000

Moriah,

I’ve been pretty successful publishing ebook versions of my print books as PDFs without DRM, using e-junkie.com for the download service and PayPal for the credit card processor. Averaging a little over $1000/month net since I started this summer. The really fun part is I’ve already reached 45 or so countries (have to update my list this weekend).

I tried the DRM route years ago, used to have two of the top ebooks on Amazon that weren’t “adult” – but I was using Lightning Source to get them into Amazon, and Amazon dropped them for ebooks beflore they launched Kindle. I have one book with Kindle just for grins, the reader just isn’t suited to my larger format books.

Piracy is an issue, but one I’ve been living with. I file the occasional DMCA complaint when a blatant download service refuses to take down an illegal copy. Did a video about DRM issues once, though it has a couple speakos in it:-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shmc7hUKTI0

I think I’ve done three or four blog posts with exact numbers on the ebook progress this year.

BTW, I usually don’t comment on pubishing blogs but you have me on the sidebar so I figure I’m welcome…

Morris