Mirador Direct by Mirador Publishing aims to provide indie authors services from selecting book covers to international book distribution.The advantage over other services such as Create Space or LuLu is the book will be published under a Publisher brand and get an ISBN number.
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Audiobooks on Scribd: The Biggest and Best Audiobook Offering
Scribd has added more than 30,000 audiobooks to its library. You can get access to new books and bestsellers for $9 a month subscription fee.
Stuff You Should Know About Stuff: Book Review
Stuff You Should Know About Stuff is funny and you will enjoy reading it. You should buy it because it can give you a tip or two about how to handle that tricky situation you always wondered about.
Book Cover Essentials for Non Fiction Authors
Book Covers! You just can’t afford to get them wrong. The first thing readers in bookstores or virtual stores lay eyes on is the book cover. Keep these basic factors in mind when you start designing your next book cover.
The Nazis Next Door: Book Release
In The Nazis Next Door, Eric Lichtblau claims that the US welcomed nearly 10,000 Nazis into the country to prevent them from going to the soviets during the cold war.
CapReader: Get Your Kids Reading Early
Capstone Young Readers is releasing its CapReader app for iOS. The app is free and includes options to read aloud as well as highlight the text as you read along.
A Step-By-Step Guide to Your First Blog: Book Release
This step-by-step guide about blogging covers both the strategic considerations in choosing a domain name as well as step-by-step instruction in buying and installing the blogging software.
The State of Ebooks and Print in the US
The initial upswing in adoption of ebooks and e-readers seems t have died down as roughly half the US population still reads only print books.
October top 10 books on Apple’s iBooks
A list of top performing books on Apples iBooks for the week ending October 20.
How Google Works by Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg
Everything Google does is different, and so is How Google Works. It is not one of those prescriptive volumes that will talk about Greek philosophers’ views on leadership or how to run a city. The book is a firsthand account of what has worked at Google and what Larry Page and Sergey Brin envisioned when they began the start-up many years ago. The book is written in a witty and humorous narrative style and you will struggle to put it down.