How to Get Your E-Book Published: An Insider's Guide to the World of Electronic Publishing

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Summary: Quantity vs Quality
Review: A good all around beginner's guide, touching an about every subject from the Internet to HTML, from copyrights to vanity publishing. That's why there are 49 chapters with some only 2 pages long. But there are many references to additional information when something peaks your interest and you want to learn more.

If you are at all knowledgeable about on-line communications, websites, HTML and domain names it will be very rudimentary. But if you use it as a reference book, using the index and then looking up the URLs and book references cited, it's a good guide.

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Summary: All Aboard the Ebook Express.
Review: Curtis & Quick have presented a valuable service to authors who would like to get published on the ww web. They add as many warnings as they do hype the hopes for new authors. Although many people have lost their shirts betting on the growth of e-shopping, the authors cover all the bases for playing in this arena. ...

They add a list of all the internet sites that an author could hope to visit in his or her quest for publication. Their advice to open a personal web site and publicize it, for example, by adding a link in your four line e-mail signature is excellent. Very little is left out, for example, anyone can download the free Acrobat eBook Reader. Precise html web pages of many ebook publishers are supplied (even if these pages change the reader should be able to locate the new page). Regardless of how soon the info becomes outdated this is a five star effort.

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Summary: A good overview and reference resource
Review: How To Get Your E-Book Published covers a lot of material - some in-depth (some regrettably not) - and brings up a lot of things I wouldn't have thought of, and haven't seen covered in other e-publishing books. In the body of the book the authors list tons of helpful web links and recommended books. I bought a copy of this book (after originally reading a library copy) largely for this info alone.

The book does, however, have some curious shortcomings. For example, though the authors devote dozens of pages to marginally helpful subjects like the history of e-publishing and writer's agents, they completely skip much more useful information. There is, for example, nothing on how to copyright your work (except to list the website of the U.S. Copyright Office - buried in the back of book). And after having packed the book with so many links and book recommendations, the authors fail to compile these all into a more easily referenced format in the surprisingly scanty "Resources" section at the end of the book.

But overall this book is a valid addition to the library of any author (or potential author) considering e-publishing their work.

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Summary: At Last an Explanation for the Layman!
Review: How To Get Your e-book Published is a needed resource for writers who are considering the technology "plunge". Knowing the ins and out of e-publishing is essential, and an important area about which we writers should be savvy. This is a good reference and teaching manual.

Rating:
Summary: At Last an Explanation for the Layman!
Review: How To Get Your e-book Published is a needed resource for writers who are considering the technology "plunge". Knowing the ins and out of e-publishing is essential, and an important area about which we writers should be savvy. This is a good reference and teaching manual.