Thank you to Andy Hunter for starting bookshop.org and presenting at our January meeting. (Members can see the video of his presentation here.) If you missed it, here’s the distilled version. Andy Hunter started bookshop.org as a public benefit … [Read more...]
“Scrivener: What’s All the Fuss?” — a Conversation with Vanessa Kier
Have you been curious about software tools for writers, specifically Scrivener? I had been intrigued by the notion of software to support and organize my writing for quite a while, and finally delved into Scrivener recently while working on a middle … [Read more...]
Footnote Format
If you're seeking guidance on footnote format, I found Citation Machine very helpful for books and websites. Put a book title or ISBN in, and it will pull author, publisher, etc. Put in a URL and it will pull information about it—title, author, … [Read more...]
All Things Amazon —Takeaways from the July 9 BAIPA Meeting
BAIPA board member John Byrne Barry collected some information to share from the July meeting There was a lot of great information shared at the July BAIPA meeting, “All Things Amazon,” more than we can possibly include in this blog post, but here … [Read more...]
Updated Agenda for Our Upcoming "Everything Amazon Day"
David and I are really looking forward to presenting key points about the most important Amazon services for independent authors on September 12th during our presentation—Everything Amazon. We have refined our list and here’s the latest agenda for … [Read more...]
Book Apps
By Joseph T. Sinclair Apps (applications) are programs that run on a smart phone. They are typically dedicated to a specific and narrow purpose. For instance, an app might do nothing more than condense 10 steps on the Web into one tap on the phone … [Read more...]
The Book App — Part II
By Joseph T. Sinclair In a prior article entitled The Book App, I reported that Kindle Fire has outsold iPads. I remembered that incorrectly from the statistics, and I should have reported out-polled. The source I read had reported not sales but the … [Read more...]
For the Digiliterati
By Joseph T. Sinclair There are three trade shows coming up in the Bay Area in which authors and publishers of book apps may be interested. These conferences tend to be very expensive, as they present many educational sessions over a multiday … [Read more...]
The Book App
By Joseph T. Sinclair The author of The Mobile Wave, Michael Saylor, states that five billion people out of seven billion worldwide now have cell phones. Soon the one billion people who now have smart phones will be five billion people as cheap … [Read more...]