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Want to sell downloadable e-books or audio books from a WordPress website using PayPal (not credit cards)? Then check out the easy-to-use and free WordPress plugin, Simple WP Shopping Cart. At Tips and Tricks HQ you can watch a video explaining how to set up this plugin, once it’s installed. To install the WP Shopping [...]
You don’t have to own a Kindle or Nook hand reader to use e-books. You can download a free Kindle or Nook application for the PC or Mac and use that to read e-books. Click on the links at the end of this post to download and install a Kindle or Nook reading application for [...]
Publishing your own e-book is a bit tedious, but not technically difficult, if you follow these ten steps: 1. Write your text: Type the text for your e-book. Don’t worry about how it looks. You’ll format it later. For now you’re better off using a simple text editor like Notepad ++ because it saves files [...]
About a year ago I got excited about the technical challenge of using photo illustrations in e-books. Some e-books for children use illustrations, but almost none do for adults. I especially wanted to see whether I could use photos well on a gray scale Kindle. The screen resolution of that model is not high, but [...]
This is Part I of a 2-post series about how to use black and white photos as illustrations in ebooks for the gray scale Kindle. The first post covers handling of the photos; the second covers how best to use them in the flow of content. As an avid Kindle reader I’ve admired the screen [...]
The ebook, How to Really Sell Ebooks, by Jon F. Merz, is a concise, detailed guide for marketing your ebooks through Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble by using Twitter to reach thousands of potential customers. His book is so concise that if I put many details into this review I’ll be stealing the author’s thunder. [...]
In a recent CyberKen post I told how to find and download free ebooks using your Kindle and the Gutenberg Project file called the Magic Catalog. A CyberKen reader asked whether he could employ the PC version of Kindle (which is free) to use the Magic Catalog. The answer is YES! Here’s how to do [...]
If you go to the Kindle Store by way of your Kindle’s wireless connection and type “free ebooks” into the search store window, you’ll discover a couple of not-free ebooks on how to obtain free ebooks! I was amused by the irony of this. There is, however, an absolutely free way to find and download [...]