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How To: ePublish Through B&N PubIt!
Barnes & Noble’s PubIt! self-publishing system is extremely simple to use. You can, quite literally, have your book published in their system in minutes. For free. Just we showed with our How To: ePublish Through Kindle Direct article, the modern self-publishing portals are no more complicated than setting up a Gmail account. There are [...]
How to Use Your Blog
Recently, UWS completed a couple of websites for new clients. As always with such things there is a little training involved. Nothing complex, just some basics about how to use Categories and Tags, what widgets do, how the sidebars are set up. Things like that. One of those clients recently posted an article about how [...]
WorkFlowy: One List to Rule Them All
I like Workflowy. A lot. I found this little gem of a program when I was searching for a simple outlining tool. I started out by looking for an app for my iPhone, but couldn’t find anything I liked. As I tunneled down further into Google’s search results, I found WorkFlowy and started playing around [...]
The B&N Best Seller List Controversy
There’s been a recent little dust-up about the best seller list on B&N, especially their Nook best sellers. The accusation that’s floating around is that B&N is deliberately manipulating the data to artificially rank the more expensive main stream publisher books on the list, forcing out the cheaper Indies. I feel pretty confident when I [...]
How To: ePublish through Kindle Direct
Getting your book onto Amazon’s Kindle is ridiculously easy. All it requires is signing up for the service and uploading your files (ensure they are properly formatted!). If you have your information in place, the entire process will take approximately 15 minutes — no, I’m not kidding. You will need: 1) An Amazon Account 2) [...]