Read an E-Book Week, the annual event to educate readers and encourage them to “read an e-book,” is coming up the second week of March. If you’ve read my blog for any length of time, you know that I am a big fan of e-books. Check the series and related posts page for more information about … Read more
Dream or Destiny is now available at Amazon.com as a Kindle edition. This is exciting to me because I recently bought a Kindle: Amazon’s Wireless Reading Device and love reading on it. When the Kindle was first introduced, I wrote a post about it: What Will the Kindle Do for the E-Publishing Industry? Since I hadn’t seen … Read more
In the last post, we talked about self-publishing a children’s book on CD. This is the final installment in the answers to questions posted by a writer. Patti McQuillen wrote in answer to my follow-up questions: I don’t have a clue about making my children’s book available online as a download. I am working on … Read more
This is the second in a series of three posts answering questions posed in comments to an earlier post. Writer Patti McQuillen asked: I have a book I finished for encouraging kids to write. It is available on CD. I self published (my first one ever) and I know that phrase makes some people run! … Read more
Most people want to get comfortable when reading for pleasure (or even for professional development and education). Sitting at a computer to read a book doesn’t appeal to us. That’s why I prefer to read on an e-book reading device. There are a number of different devices on the market that are suitable for reading … Read more
Although many people prefer to read print, I always look for e-books. My poor vision makes it difficult for me to read most print books, but I can adjust the font on e-books to make them easy for me to read. People who associate e-books with short, often free, how-to and marketing books may be … Read more
For many people, the word e-book means a PDF or proprietary electronic (some type of .exe file) document that is usually a short how-to guide. Often these e-books are offered free as a marketing tool for the author. Many of these e-books are useful: I recommend Mihaela Lica’s SEO Book of WordPress Blogs, and Yvonne at … Read more
Project Gutenberg is a nonprofit organization that has provided free e-books on the Internet since 1971. This month, Project Gutenberg is sponsoring the World eBook Fair, bringing together several other e-book collections in addition to its own 20,000 titles. During the fair, more than 300,000 e-books are available in one place for free download. More than a … Read more
Writers are first of all readers. I ran across a blog post on Jolly Blogger – not sure how I got there … maybe from an e-mail or following links from another site. The post contains the text of C. S. Lewis’s introduction to Athanasius on the Incarnation, which makes an excellent case for reading older … Read more