Shantanu Bala, creator of Ebook Glue, a new tool for creating eBooks
Interview Starts at 18:15
A lot of writers are already formatting their content and arranging their content for their blogs and for their websites. To me, it doesn’t really make sense why they should have to re-do that entire process for another device. It really should be an automatic thing, and it’s definitely possible. It just takes a little bit of work in figuring out how to make it happen really well.
Show Notes and Links:
Barnes & Noble’s press release reporting declines in holiday sales
eBook Ninjas podcast Episode 93 with Jeremy Greenfield of Digital Book World
“Amazon Kindle Fire gains Web usage market share on iPad loss” by Steven Musil in CNET – Jan. 2, 2013
“iPad Tablet Web Share Falls 7.1% Following Christmas Holiday” by Chitika Insights – Jan. 2, 1013
Valerie Easton’s interview with Sarah Sara Nelson, editorial director of books and Kindle for Amazon.com
So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading by Sara Nelson – $12.99 on Kindle
Amazon’s Best Books of the Month, selected by Sara Nelson and her team
“Chrome Browser Extension Encourages Amazon Searchers to Head to Their Library” by Matt Enis at Library Journal via Stephen’s Lighthouse and Tom Semple
Library Extension Chrome Extension
“Voice Guide” and “Explore by Touch” Coming to Kindle Fire and Kindle Fire HD 7″ Early Next Year” - Amazon press release Dec. 6, 2012
Shantanu Bala’s curriculum vitae
“Turning Blogs Into E-Books: Meet the founder of Ebook Glue” by Dan Eldridge in TeleRead
Ebook Glue website
Center for Cognitive Ubiquitous Computing at Arizona State University
Newsweek subscription page
Newsweek App for Android at Amazon
The Impact Equation: Are You Making Things Happen or Just Making Noise? by Chris Brogan and Julien Smith – $12.99 on Kindle
Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named “Well, You Needn’t.” This version is “Ra-Monk” by Eval Manigat on the “Variations in Time: A Jazz Persepctive” CD by Public Transit Recording” CD, courtesy of IODA Promonet.
Next week’s guest: Seth Godin, author of The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly?
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Len, see if you can interview the creator of Sigil EBook Editor used by many authors and formatters in the USA.
Posted 05 Jan 2013 at 5:03 pm ¶I will check this out, Tom. Thanks for the suggestion.
Posted 05 Jan 2013 at 5:48 pm ¶Works great for text-only blogs, but it trips over graphics and embedded videos. Nice product anyway and very useful. However, I would rather use something that gives me more control over the output rather than a “black box”.
Posted 07 Jan 2013 at 5:18 am ¶Richard, I agree Ebook Glue is only a beginning and hope Shantanu is able to refine it to its full potential. Thanks for trying it!
Posted 07 Jan 2013 at 5:26 am ¶Very few blogs are of high enough consistent quality to merit being converted to an ebook to generate additional revenue stream. And the blogs that can merit ebook conversion have a whole professional staff behind it to do this type of work (such as the Washington Post or NY Times blogs). In EBook Glue’s current state the potential is limited. However, this young man has tons of potential.
Posted 07 Jan 2013 at 8:30 am ¶I just did a quick conversion of my blog, a monthly calendar which includes an image and text. The process was fast and easy. I look forward to what Ebook Glue offers as it develops.
Posted 23 Jan 2013 at 5:34 pm ¶I’m glad it worked, Bette. Thanks for the report!
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