Free eBook Formatting Guides: Style, Marketing and Software Programs

Short list of FREE ebook formatting marketing and style guides, as well as top ebook formatting tools to Create, Promote and Market your ebook.

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Amazon Break Through Novel Award Contest

Sixth annual Novel Award contest offers a $50,000 advance and publishing with Amazon Publishing. 5 categories, 5 finalists. Contest Closes January 27th.

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Smashwords Direct – Smashwords Accepts epub file uploads

After years of wanting this feature, Smashwords launched (Dec. 2012) a much needed improvement to their system – Smashwords Direct allows the support of ebooks that “contain richer, more sophisticated formatting”. “Smashwords Direct allows you to upload your own professionally designed .epub file to Smashwords. You can use Smashwords Direct to replace a Smashwords Meatgrinder-generated [...]

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Smashwords Mark Coker talks about e-Publishing (March 2011)

Mark Coker, founder of Smashwords.com, talks about his ebook publishing and distribution platform. Smashwords makes it easy for any author in the world to upload a finished manuscript and instantly e-publish as a multi-format ebook to most of the major ebook retailers.

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Author Central: An Effective Marketing Tool for Authors

Many authors don’t take advantage of or are not even aware that Amazon provides a free author page (Author Central), not just on their .com site, but on their International sites as well.

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10 Tips for Publishing Success from Marketing Expert Penny Sanseveri

The difference between a successful published author and someone who just dawdles on the fringes of success lies in these tips from Marketing Expert, Penny Sanseveri

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Self Publishing and its Surprisingly Honorable History

One of the more enjoyable facets of taking on a writing assignment like this one for Suzanne is the discovery of one’s prejudices and errors in thought. I have now joined the list of self-publishing authors include many esteemed authors including Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Jane Austen, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Edgar Allen Poe.

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Booktango – Free eBook Publishing (Audio Podcast)

Booktango is the latest ebook publishing innovation from Author Solutions —a FREE one-stop self-publishing solution for authors: marketing, formatting and more…

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Are Free eBook Promos with KDP Select the New 99 Cent Price Point?

Is Free the new 99-cent price point for e-books? Here’s how one author effectively used KDP Select to reach a top ten position in Amazon Kindle Store.

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Is 99 Cent ebook Pricing a Wise Idea?

With the release of Amazon’s KDP Select program is selling your book for 99 cents a good marketing strategy? Although giving your book away for free sounds counter intuitive to making more sales, it is a fact that sales for a given ebook is directly connected to the level of visibility in Amazon’s Kindle store.

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Amazon KDP Select – good or bad

Amazon KDP Select program: My initial results (and opinion) from a 3 day freebie campaign with KDP Select. Is it good or bad? For me, the jury is still out.

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Ebook Formatting Kit 3.0

Ebook Formatting Kit includes a step-by-step guide, step-by-step videos, pre-made ebook templates, pre-made CSS PLUS LIfetime updates. Plus, code and templates for advanced formatting such as non-fiction endnotes and poetry.

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Amazon Kindle Singles

pamphlets

Kindle Singles are short stories, articles, posts or opinions that do not fall into the conventional space for magazine or print – typically 5,000 to 30,000 words.

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How to Publish a Free Kindle Book on Amazon and Earn Money: KDP Select

Amazon KDP Select

Have you ever wondered how to publish a free kindle book on Amazon? The $0 price point that was once exclusively for Publishers is now offered to anyone PLUS the option of earning money through Amazon’s Lending Library.

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25 Days to Publication

DAY1: 25 Days to E-Pubishing

The time for ePublishing is NOW! Thousands of e-readers will be given as Christmas gifts this year, so its time to get your polished manuscript epublished, marketed and promoted.

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