Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Publishing News and Tutorials Oh My!




Hi all, I've run across some newsworthy links and wanted to pass them on to all of you. The publishing world is changing again and you might find it interesting. Also, below are some great tutorials on indie publishing and formatting your own books for Kindle, Nook, and Kobo.

Enjoy the links!


Publishing News

Random House and Penguin Merger Talks
http://www.deadline.com/2012/10/random-house-penguin-merger-talks-publishing-report/#comments

Pearson Confirms Merger Talks
http://paidcontent.org/2012/10/25/pearson-confirms-penguinrandom-house-merger-talks/

Random House and Penguin Merger 
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/28/us-newscorp-penguin-idUSBRE89R06W20121028


In other news - 

Amazon Books Are Borrowed Not Bought
http://www.forbes.com/sites/suwcharmananderson/2012/10/23/amazon-ebooks-are-borrowed-not-bought/


Great How-To Articles - 

How to Create an eBook With Free Tools - A Tutorial
http://bolognaornot.wordpress.com/how-to-create-a-kindle-book-with-easy-and-free-tools-tutorial/


And 3 Related Articles on Indie Publishing -

Article 1 Releasing Your First Book
http://www.edwardwrobertson.com/2012/08/im-new-to-indie-publishing-and-this-is.html

Article 2 Building Your Floor
http://www.edwardwrobertson.com/2012/09/im-new-to-indie-publishing-part-2.html

Article 3 - Is Select a Long Term Answer?
 http://www.edwardwrobertson.com/2012/09/im-new-to-indie-publishing-part-3-is.html

Book Cover Contest - 

NovelScribe - enter your book cover in one of 5 categories
http://www.novelscribe.com/awards/


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http://www.appmakr.com/learn_more/


Chamberton News -

Chamberton Publishing is getting ready for a blog tour featuring our Golden Light Anthology series and we're looking for host blogs. We'd be thrilled to stop by your blog and present our new releases. Please let me know if you want to join the tour. Drop me a line here http://chambertonpublishing.com/Contact_Us.html  

Oh, and you could enter to win a Kindle Paperwhite!






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