After all the comments and reactions to my article last week, ‘Finding Quality Ebooks’, I thought a follow-up post was in order as so much has happened since it was posted. Is this how fast things work in book publishing nowadays? Well, anyway, at the same time as I professed my acute knowledge in my…
I must credit one of my blog readers with making me think about the quality standard of ebooks. It is no great industrial secret that some ebooks are very badly written and edited, but there are also many that are well-written and of great value. So how do you find out which is which before…
While many of my readers will be familiar with my semi-skilled ability to scribble words down in a cunningly clever order, few may know that I have, in fact, a second remarkable skill. Part-time astronomer and astronaut. Although it is not something I brag about very often, I do take some degree of personal pride…
While reading a news article recently about dairy farming, I had one of those odd thought moments. It seemed to me that milk and words suffer a similar fate in the marketing process. They are both products at the very bottom of a long production chain. This means that the selling price for the raw…
It’s been a while since I posted one of my tried and true Vandal recipes. So in response to the overwhelming number of requests I have had (well one, maybe two), let’s get cooking. I love simplicity because it makes things a whole lot easier and as luck would have it, some of the greatest…
I have been astounded by the number of comments regarding yesterday’s post about books and ebooks. It certainly is a topic that has a number of factors at work and isn’t as simple as a preference for one or the other. In particular, I was most interested in the range of opinions, reasons, and practicalities…
