Ebook design

This blog post isn’t about how to format your ebook (I’ll be writing one of those next week, now I’ve actually worked it out!), it’s about design. An ebook, like a print book, has several design elements besides the cover and the actual text,...

Table of Contents in Novels – Do We Need Them?

** Update: After a recent issue with scams on Amazon, a few people have had emails from Amazon because of their table of contents at the back of their novels. Amazon has publically said it is acceptable, but their style guild recommends putting them in the front...

Ebooks vs "Real" Books

With the huge growth of the ebook market, it’s a big controversy at the moment.  People either love ebooks or hate them.  Proponents of print books cite the feel and the smell as being reasons they would never buy an ereader.  Some, perhaps remembering the...