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How To Research Copyrights |
One of the most commonly asked questions in our self-publishing seminars is: "How can I research material and find out if it has an active copyright?"
We have recently uncovered information plus some great government sponsored websites that have the most comprehensive research information we've found |
How To Set An Effective Price for Your E-Book |
It explains, in detailed mathematical terms, why just slapping a price on your e-book may be the worst thing you can do because it takes it out of the realm of credibility, affordability, and desirability for the potential buyer.
With all the research I’ve done, this is the best thing I’ve found to give you an insight into what you need to look at before you offer your e-book for sale. |
Selling Books to Airport Shops |
Is there an opportunity for your to get you book into the airport bookstores?
Maybe yes – maybe no – but you need to try to be successful! If this sounds like kind of a non-answer, it might be but then again, it’s probably the most truthful because it doesn't promise anything other than reality. |
The Shelf Life of a Paper Book
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Predictions about the meteoric rise of E-Books are usually accompanied by dire forecasts that bemoan the demise of print books.
I’ll agree that the world of digital and tablet computing has created a meteoric rise in the number of e-books and readers but is paper really going away? |
The Hierarchy of Bookstores |
The objective of every author is to get their book seen by as many people as possible because the more people who see it, the more people are likely to buy it.
For this reason every author wants the most visible location. The problem comes from the fact that the book seller only has so much physical space and they want to fill that space with the books that sell the most, the fastest. |
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Free Translation Software and Considerations Before Using
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Language Translation Systems
Need to translate your workbooks, outline notes, or other printed materials to another language? Here are links to five (5) different FREE software translation systems that will convert over 60 different languages. |
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Plagiarism and how to avoid it
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Over the years while offering courses on self-publishing, e-publishing, web site design, and several others, I've often been asked about the legality of using other people’s work.
When I wrote Trademarks and Copyrights for the Clueless®, I included several somewhat specific guidelines but deliberately avoided citing the law, other than what I had included as direct references. The one thing that I know for sure is that there are ways to legally include the works of others in your own as long as you follow the current legal guidelines for doing so. |
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Library of Congress Catalog Number
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A Library of Congress catalog card number is a unique identification number that the Library of Congress assigns to the catalog record created for each book in its cataloged collections.
Librarians use it to locate a specific Library of Congress catalog record in the national databases and to order catalog cards from the Library of Congress or from commercial suppliers. |
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Instructions for publishing your e-book on Kindle
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Here are some guidelines and things for you consider about putting your book on the Kindle® system
For the current answers to virtually all of your questions about the specifics of pricing, discounts, royalties, and other aspects of offering our materials on Amazon.com, visit their Kindle Direct publishing site at: http://tinyurl.com/7bq684s |
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How To Sell Your eBook In The Apple iBook Store
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I’ve been informed by many of my E-publishing seminar attendees that apple has made it impossible for them to sell their e-books though the Apple IBook store.
This isn’t exactly true although they’re not the easiest on-line e-book seller to work with. To help stock the iBook store with plenty of titles, Apple has came up a way for you to sell your eBook in their iBook store! They’ll list your e-book for FREE, but you MUST comply with their guidelines for listing in the Apple iBook store (Like mandating that you must use a Macintosh® computer). |
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PDF Resources for your Books and E-Books
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If you want to lock your materials and make sure that what you send people is what they receive and can’t diddle with it or change it around, you’re a candidate for using PDF to send and receive your materials over the net.
If you’re going to be offering your materials in a pay-per-download format, you’ll most likely be required by the sites that list your material for sale to convert it to PDF format before you submit it. |
Selling your materials from your web site |
When you decide to sell your materials from your web site it’s most likely that the visitor/buyer will be using a credit card to make their purchase.
That means that you must have the ability to accept their credit cards in order to receive payment. This ability is known as “merchant account status” and traditionally it has been long, involved and complicated to obtain this status. |
Copyright and Fair use of materials |
In this report, I'm going to give you a condensed version of copyright, public domain, fair use, and Creative Commons to use as a guideline for other people's material.
I strongly suggest that you read and review the other material posted on Publishers Haven™ about trademark and copyright law as well as obtaining a copy of Trademarks and Copyrights for the Clueless®, so that you are well versed and are not in effect of misinformation. |
Creative Commons Licensing |
I'm constantly getting a lot of questions about what we can legally use of other peoples in our writing efforts including what we can put on our websites that was created by somebody else.
We'll get into a lot more detail later on in the copyright section about what you can legally do or not do with somebody else's material but in the meantime, it's important that we define and understand something that came into being in the last decade known as a creative Commons license. |
The Best Websites to Download Free
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The web has made it possible for us to have access to all of the great classic books at no charge PLUS a lot of other materials that people have elected to give away rather than sell.
Here are the best places we’ve found to search and own download thousands of books. |
How to find out if your images have been stolen |
If cou've created original art for your book or website or if you’ve paid to have it designed and created for you, you want to make sure that you’re the only one who’s using it.
Are you curious if your images and/or written works have been stolen? Recent additions to the world of web site tracking have made it quick, easy and inexpensive to see if you’re being ripped off. |
Check for plagiarism |
You sweated bullets to write your material and then you suddenly find out that some jerk is using your material and passing it off as his own!
So how do you find out if someone is using your material? Easy – Do what the major publishers and most successful authors and copywriters do - just use one of the following software packages to keep track of your material. |
Overcoming Procrastination |
OK. You’ve decided that you are going to write your book but
for some reason, it’s not getting done.
If you’ve found yourself putting off writing your book over and over again, you’re not alone. Lots of people procrastinate about their books to some degree – but some people are so chronically affected by procrastination that it stops them from ever getting their book done. |
The Marketplace Fairness Act
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Why passage of a federal Internet sales tax law could impact your E-commerce business
After nearly two years on the Congressional bench, the Marketplace Fairness Act (MFA) is again making the rounds. The MFA is an attempt by federal lawmakers to level the playing field for brick-and-mortar stores going up against ecommerce businesses. If the bill passes, states that meet tax code simplification requirements can opt-in to require out-of-state sellers to collect sales tax on purchases made online. |
Print on demand services Why do we recommend CreateSpace? |
Although there are dozens of print-on-demand (POD) companies (See list below), we utilize and recommend CreateSpace, which is part of the Amazon group of companies.
Over our years 30+ of publishing, we have utilized a long list of printers, both offset and electronic, and have concluded that there are some specific advantages, especially financial and quality, to utilizing CreateSpace and their POD services. |
Using Someone Else's Music on Your Website (Or other Products) |
As far as the music is concerned Copyright law doesn’t care whether you’re charging for the material or giving it away, the law still reads the same.
ASCAP and BMI are the grand poohbahs of copyrighted music and licensing generally goes through them. For the latest legal information, check out the ASCAP info |
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There is no specific measure of how much of a given song's lyrics you can use without triggering copyright.
Unfortunately, that has to be measured on a case-by-case basis. I have carefully researched your question and have your answer. To conduct this research I first searched the following terms: U.S. patent and trademark office |