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iPhone & iPad

Do I App or do iBook?

Apple have followed Amazon’s lead and iBooks can now have audio and video embedded in them.

See my blog Do iPad or do I Kindle for more on this … and note that, somewhat ironically, Kindle Enhanced Editions (as Amazon called them) are only for Kindle Readers on iPhones and iPads not Kindles themselves.

So with increased functionality [...]

iPhone & iPad

Soulwave – a free Commutabook

Today’s World Book Day and I can’t think of a better way to celebrate it than to announce the publication of our latest iPhone app.

For World Book Day, this is completely free too!!

Soulwave is our latest Commutabook. At only 7000 words long, you can read the whole book in less than two journeys on your train.

Soulwave [...]

iPhone & iPad

100 Year of Ermintrude – an iPhone app

100 Years of Ermintrude is a wonderful example of how an author’s work can be re-purposed for different platforms.

It started life as a PDF download which raised a nice amount of money for breast cancer charity … and ended up with me walking around London in a bra with 15,000 women.

It then morphed into an MP3 [...]

Publishing

Author 2.0

Introducing the new paradigm for publishing and promoting your book …

I am thrilled to have come across this programme that outlines how any author can fully harness the power of Web 2.0 to make connections to promote and sell their books.

Irrespective of whether you are a published author or just starting out on your path, you [...]