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  Lulu Launches new Epub Creator

  3490 readersThe POD service Lulu pushed further into eBook distribution today with the relaunch of its Epub Creator. This tool, which we last reported on a couple weeks back, is an automatic converter which functions something like the Meatgrinder converter that SmashWords uses. But Lulu’s tool includes several useful features that place it several steps above the

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  Lulu Releases eBook Creator Guide

  6455 readersThe self-publishing service Lulu is trying to expand its eBook publishing arm at the moment, and yesterday David Woodward posted an updated copy of the Lulu eBook Creator Guide. Lulu accepts PDF, Epub, and DOC files, but as you may know DOC files need to be converted to a real eBook format before they’re sold.  Conversion

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  Lulu Announces a One-Click Publishing App

  1418 readersThe self-pub service Lulu got ahead of the pack this week when they announced their new publishing options available via Google Drive. The Lulu One-Click Publishing App is a Chrome applet that, when tied into your Google Drive and Lulu accounts, lets authors and publishers collaborate on documents in Google Drive and then submit the documents

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  Lulu.com Adds New Ecommerce Functionality

  1763 readersOnline publishing community has launched a new ecommerce platform that will help self-published authors sell their eBooks. Powered by a company called Elastic Path, the new platform lets readers checkout without creating a registration and has international support for checkout in different languages and currencies. In addition, there are new marketing tools for authors. Authors

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  Diane Duane seeks information about Young Wizards Canadian e-book sales

  1516 readersWhen I mentioned the Young Wizards series here a time or two in recent memory, one TeleRead commenters complained, “Why can’t we buy them in Canada?” Duane has now posted to her blog that she is in the process of getting ready to beard her publisher about this, and would like help from Canadian readers

• Print Book and E-Book Sales Feed Into Each Other, Says Lulu.com

  1399 readers According to self-publishing site Lulu.com, more of its users produce e-books, but more of its users’ sales come from print book. At the same time, selling both “each of the two types of formatting tends to help fuel the sale of the other,” says Lulu.com in the statement below. Just how this is so is

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  Will The New Apple Partnership Inspire Publishers?

  1720 readersAfter years of battling over trademark, today Apple Corps and Apple came together to sell music by The Beatles. With this long battle finally settled into partnership, it raises questions for what this type of partnership could mean for digital publis...

• Brain Hive Expands on-Demand E-Book Service for K-12 Market

  230 readers [Press Release]  Brain Hive Expands On-Demand eBook Service for U.S. K-12 Schools Titles from Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, Annick Press, and August House Now Offered MINNEAPOLIS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Brain Hive, LLC, a private Minneapolis-based education company, announced today that its on-demand eBook lending service for schools has expanded with highly acclaimed and award-winning children’s titles from Little, Brown

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  How Kobo Kicked Google’s Butt

  111 readersIn the first month of selling ebooks with Kobo, indie bookstores sold more ebooks than in two years selling them in a similar partnership with Google.   The key to Kobo’s success? Devices, say about a dozen bookstore owners we interviewed for this story. Having a device to sell in the store makes it easier

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  Amazon Announces New Program to Help Young Adults Find eBooks to Read

  2140 readersToday Amazon announced Essentials in Young Adult Books, a new way for parents and teenagers to discover interesting new books. The goal here, of course, is to help young readers expand their horizons. “We’re not sure which statement is truer: that teens can be insatiable readers or that they’re