September 2012
Beginner
312 pages
7h 7m
English
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Comparing Different E-Book Readers
Before publishing your e-book, become familiar with at least one e-book reader, and preview your own book to ensure that it displays correctly. You can also see how the device operates and how to purchase e-books directly from the relevant online store.
If you don’t already own an e-book reader, consider buying for your own use one of the devices I describe in the following sections. Doing so is a helpful way to test your e-book, and you gain crucial experience in seeing how readers interact with online stores and with the books they sell. I recommend the Kindle because it’s the most popular and it has a 3G version (handy for travel). Any other brand of black-and-white e-reader gives you a similar reading experience. A basic e-reader costs about $120. All the major e-reader brands use some form of e-ink technology, which means that the display is designed to mimic the experience of reading on paper. This means that e-readers are much easier on the eyes than reading on a computer screen.
Whichever e-reader you have, sample (or buy) at least a few e-books on it to gain a sense of how e-books look, what information is best placed at the start of your e-book to form part of the sample, and what sort of material is currently popular in your genre or niche. In Chapter 2, you can read success stories about independent authors who have sold hundreds of ...
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