Author, journalist Russell Snyder moved to Finland from California in 1982. He has spent over 30 years exploring and enjoying the Nordic country. He has traveled far and wide searching for experiences, but has uncovered many cultural treasures right in … Read the story...
Tag: ebook
Ebooks news digest: writer-editor relationship, travel stories from tourist perspective, changing role of agents
Ebook news digest February 4, 2017
A Storyteller’s Guide to Travel and Photography
(Wandering Educators)
Perhaps it is every professional travel photographer’s dream to be able to publish a book full of beautiful photos from exotic places. Travel … Read the story...
A publisher caught loaning its own ebooks from library for profit
In some countries, like Sweden, public libraries have an advanced system for citizens to loan ebooks. All parties, libraries, citizens and publishers have been happy to the system, because it works, allows budgeting for libraries, and enables some business for … Read the story...
EU confirms that libraries can lend ebooks provided authors are fairly compensated
Ebooks have been, and are being, lended by public libraries in many EU countries, but on November 10th, 2016 the EU Court of Justice decided that libraries really have the right to do so. The court regarded that the principles … Read the story...
Ebook news digest: improve your writing, become a Kindle master, avoid these travel photo mistakes
Ebook news digest August 1, 2016
The importance of dissatisfaction to writing (The Irish Times)
Every writer has his or her own motivation for writing. It is lonely work that tends to continue in the author’s head even … Read the story...
Ebook news digest: tips for aspiring writers, Instagram book deal, ebook subscription success
Ebook news digest July 24, 2016
8 things I wish I’d known before writing my first novel (Marie Claire)
Author Kate Mosse shares a few tips for aspiring writers, and although her tips focus on novels, they are … Read the story...
Ebook news digest: best reading apps, tips from The Atlantic, unique travel photography
Ebook News Digest June 12th, 2016
Five e-reader apps for smartphones and tablets: from Wattpad to Scribd (EveningStandard)
– We would like to add FBReader and Kindle to the list of ereading apps as well.
Lemonade and Sketches … Read the story...
Top 10 trends and challenges in book publishing 2016
Relative to the population, the number of new book titles published each year in Scandinavian countries is big. Books and reading are appreciated in the region, where the number of book publishers is relatively big as well. Each country, however, … Read the story...
The importance and complexity of ebook cover design
Three elements require careful consideration before a book is ready to be marketed at an online bookstore: title, cover design and book description. The fourth element – price – is equally important, but it is a business decision, unlike the … Read the story...
If you read PDF ebooks, you may want to try out this Onyx ereader
Practically all new ebooks are being published in EPUB and Kindle formats so that they are easily accessible on all tablets, ereaders, smartphones and computers (independent of their screen size). A number of books published years ago in print may … Read the story...
People who read a lot is the biggest customer group for ebooks and ereaders
Ebook retailer and ereader device vendor Kobo recently published a survey that confirms many assumptions we have had about people who read ebooks. Who are they? Young or old? Men or women? The Kobo survey tells us that the typical … Read the story...
Spaghetti and Sauna is a survival guide to Europe’s vastly different cultures: Italy and Finland
Finns are from Neptune and Italians from Mercury – that is what someone moving from Italy to Finland (or vice versa) might think. The differences in culture, behavior and socializing – not to mention weather and food are so great … Read the story...