eBook Writing Made Easy

You Can Now "Create Your Own E-Book Without Ever Writing One Word"...

You can now have your ebook written for you without ever writing one word yourself, and still put your name on it as the author!

Getting it written: Traditionally, ghostwriters have been and are still today hired by celebrities to write autobiographies when the celebrities are not talented writers.

Print, beware! Publishers are "on the road" to pure digital

The American Chemical Society found that most subscribers to its academic journals no longer want the print version, and the group's VP of Web strategy says it's only a matter of time before print fades away completely.

Google's Book Plan for Publishers

In an effort to help book publishers generate revenue through the Google Book Search program, and deter from any copyright issues, books that are now part of the Google Publisher program will be offering publishing houses the opportunity to sell their book titles online.

Amidst eBook Frenzy, Print-On-Demand Is Quietly Thriving (The Huffington Post)

What's Your Reaction? Despite all the talk that most Americans read fewer books these days, e-books have become one of the retail world's hottest topics. The publishing industry now trembles on the brink of the same massive digital disruption that's still rocking the music business.

Adobe InDesign Celebrates a Decade of Publishing Innovation (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

SAN JOSE, Calif.----Launched in late 1999 and created as a successor to Adobe® Pagemaker® software, Adobe InDesign® revolutionized the publishing industry with its unrivalled technology and features.

Two New Ebook Surveys Highlight Interesting Trends (Information Today)

HighWire Press, a division of the Stanford University Libraries, has released the full results of a fall 2009 survey of librarians on their attitudes and practices related to ebooks (http://highwire.stanford.edu/PR/HighWireEBookSurvey2010.pdf). The survey was conducted as part of HighWire's ongoing exploration of the fast-growing scholarly ebook market. A recent survey ...