Author Blog

Before you create your ebook or print file, follow these easy steps for preparing your manuscript to ready it for importing it into your formatting program of choice.

Many people think that a PDF is the same as an ebook, or that a PDF works on an ereader just as well as an ebook does. But this is not the case. So what are the differences? And when it comes to ebook vs PDF, which is better for an ereader?

Length for print books mattered a lot, but what about ebooks? Take a peek at what does matter and what length is selling more books!

Deciding where to publish your ebook can be difficult—there are so many ebook vendors out there! We would like to share with you some facts, as well as our recommendations, to help you make this decision.

Barnes & Noble is one of the big ebook publishing sites. So if you’re planning a promotion, how do you discount your ebook on Barnes & Noble? Let’s take a look.

Price is an important element that we review when considering submitted books, and one popular site for ebook distribution is Smashwords. So how do you discount your ebook on Smashwords? Here’s how.

Discounting your book on iTunes might look complicate, but here are some simple steps to get you ready for your next My Book Cave promotion.

It’s time to publish the novel you have worked so hard and long on, but which ebook software should you use to create a beautiful ebook that will impress your readers?

Subscriber magnets are a fabulous way to build your newsletter lists and ultimately sell more books. If you need help putting up your subscriber magnet, this tutorial will walk you through it step-by-step.

How do you discount your ebook on a big vendor like Amazon? There are a few ways to discount your ebook on Amazon, depending on whether or not your book is just published through KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing) or published through KDP AND enrolled in KDP Select.

Need to add a watermark to your ebook? You can do it in Jutoh by following these simple steps.

Are your ebook images too large? Avoid common mistakes and make sure you have the best image size for ebook.

Have you tried using drop caps to set your ebook apart? This tutorial explains what drop caps are and how they can be accomplished, as well as some of the pitfalls you’ll encounter.

Using custom fonts to set your ebook apart is easy to do. We’ll show you how to do it with Jutoh software. But be aware that there are some pitfalls.

Images or dingbat fonts made into images can make great scene break icons, but making a scene break look good in your ebook and on vendor previewers can be a challenge if you don’t know about resolution.

Having an audio version of your book often helps your overall book sales, and anything that helps authors market their ebooks and earn more cash is something My Book Cave is very interested in.

Change the speed that Microsoft Word’s “Speak” feature uses to dictate text back to you. It’s possible to do—and pretty easy, too. But it’s buried in your Windows settings, not in your Word program. Read on and we’ll tell you how to do it.

So, who cares about formatting? It all reads the same. Well, yes and no. Many books are read on phones these days, and that extra spacing between paragraphs can be irritating. But there are other reasons, so read on.

How to add em dashes (—) to your Wordpress blogs and pages using functionality already built into Wordpress. It’s easy, really, but not immediately obvious.