Category Archives: E-Hanced Book News

Kindle Tablet – More Opportunities for Enhanced Ebook Authors & Designers

It appears that it’s now more than rumor that Amazon will soon release a Kindle tablet.  Tech blogger, MG Siegler reported on TechCrunch that he has actually laid hands on the Kindle tablet. What Will a Kindle Tablet Offer to Authors & Designers of Enhanced Ebooks? The sky is opening up for designers and authors […]

The Demise of the Dust Jacket at the Dawn of Digital Books

There are many things to celebrate and some to lament regarding the emerging digital book technology and the vanishing printed book art. One thing I’m beginning to look upon nostalgically is the demise of dust jackets. The cliché, ‘don’t judge a book by its cover’ is only partly true part of the time. Publishers of […]

Post 9-11 Rosebowl – Remembering the Victims and Responders

Self-Publishing – Ten Steps to Completing Your Book – Part 1

Technology has made self-publishing relatively accessible to everyone. This is especially true of e-books. The big question now is, “How do I complete my book?” Have you ever awaken from a dream that self-published on your mind. You probably didn’t ask for that dream, it just showed up one night. If you didn’t write your […]

Self-Publishing a Book. Are E-Books Right for Me?

Choosing the right vehicle to self-publishing a book should be given serious consideration. There are so many self-publishing options available today that it can be either a blessing or a hassle to pick the right one. Hopefully, you’ll begin to have a better understanding from this moment forward. I mustn’t assume that everyone reading this […]

God’s Water Falls in the Hands of Friends

Here’s an update on my e-book, ‘God’s Water Falls’. I completed the artwork in the third week in August. I assembled it all on my iPad on a soon-to-be-released-app called ‘Book Creator, which I’ve had the pleasure to beta test. I’ll tell you more about the app once it is in the Apple’s App Store […]

Why We Don’t Need Another Killer Tablet

Before a new e-reading device makes its way to consumer wish lists, tech journalists start asking, could this be the (insert name here) killer tablet. The name most often wedged between the parentheses is the iPad.  Unless some developer/manufacturer leaps five years into the future, it appears that the best any of them can do […]

iPad: A Publishing Platform for E-Books & Interactive Book Creators

The iPad is fast becoming a publishing platform. It will bring with it a type of gold rush for independent content creators of e-books and interactive books. That’s right, books will be created on the iPad. That will be especially true of fixed-layout coffee table-type books and picture-laden books. We’ll look deeper into that, but […]

Build Your Own iPad Book App

What would it take to build your own iPad book app today? Upon hearing the rumors and eventually reading some facts from reliable sources about the coming release of the original iPad 1 in 2011, I set out to design an app and have it ready for the launch of the tablet. Designing the app […]