Second annual Global eBook Awards deadline is being extended from March 12 to April 30, 2012. We discovered that judging eBooks is different from evaluating paper books. With paper books, the books are usually shipped to the judges all at the same time in one large carton. With eBooks, judges download them one-at-a-time. When they [...]

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February 18, 2012 The market for children’s books is huge: Consumers buy $3.1 billion children’s books annually. Now, with e-books and apps taking off, there are new opportunities to turn traditional story books into interactive experiences. Guest host Mary Louise Kelly talks with Dan Poynter, consultant and publisher at Para Publishing, and Roxie Munro, an [...]

In our second year of promoting great ebooks, we have decided to use Smashwords to help our contest. And so you may ask, “Why Smashwords?” For the judges and for you is the answer. Why for the judges? In 2011, we required that PDFs be sent to us for distribution to the judges. Many authors [...]

Children’s picture books are about to become easier and less expensive to produce while becoming more versatile and more fun to read. The reason? Children’s books are going from print to electronic. This is great news for both the author and the reader. Thousands of people have written children’s picture books that will never be [...]