Do Readability Scores work?
Some seventy years after its invention the Flesch readability test is used by marketers, policy writers and bloggers; but do Readability Scores work? …
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Working with Kindle Create
Amazon’s MOBI format for Kindle is strictly proscribed and validated whenever a file is uploaded to Amazon. Working with Kindle Create software should be the best route to a valid e-book file. But unless your book is the simplest, text-only layout, Kindle Create is a struggle. …
Not all EPUBS are alike
The electronic book comes in many different formats, from EPUB to PDF to Kindle’s MOBI and many others. You may not know that not all EPUBS are alike. …
The practicalities of Digital Rights Management
If you saw our rejection of Digital Rights Management, or DRM, the fundamental objections are practical. So what are the practicalities of Digital Rights Management? …
How to: Protect your downloadable content
How do you create web-accessible e-publications that are NOT downloadable and NOT printable for users who haven’t paid for them? …
Using Book2Look Page Preview
Interactive, page-flipping, previewing software is not new for publications, but we’re dipping into the Book2Look page preview software care of Neilsen so see what the latest generation has to offer. …
Seven Deadly Fears of Writing
What’s been stopping you from producing that magnum opus? Taken from the opening of Jurgen Wolff’s 2007 Your Writing Coach, what follows is our take on his Seven Deadly Fears of Writing. …
Outlining a book
Sixty, seventy, eighty thousand words or more. That’s your typical novel. Somehow you have to get to there from a blank page. Unless you’re an accomplished free-writer, outlining a book can help. …
The Art of the Good Cover: the Re-design
Back to where we started. Earlier this year we revamped The Art of Foil Fencing with a new cover because the original was, well, terrible. …
The Art of the Good Cover: Rules for good covers
Earlier this year we revamped The Art of Foil Fencing with a new cover because the original was, well, terrible. So what are the ‘rules’ for good covers?
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