How to Publish an eBook

David Carnoy has written about "How to Publish an eBook" in CNET Reviews on July 26, 2010. To quote:-

A while back I wrote a column entitled "Self-Publishing: 25 things you need to know," which was mostly about how to create and sell your own paper book. Since then a lot of folks have asked me to do something similar for e-books, so I have.
I begin with one caveat: The whole e-book market is rapidly evolving and a lot of self-publishing companies are offering e-book deals bundled into their print book publishing packages, which makes them harder to break out and evaluate. It's all quite complicated, and in an effort to sort through the confusion, I've decided to offer a few basic tips and present what I think are some of the best options out there for creating an e-book quickly and easily. As things change--and they will--I'll do my best to keep this column up to date.

Tips

• It's gotta be good


• Create an arresting cover


• Price your e-book cheaply


• Avoid any outfits that don't let you set the price


• Marketing is all about creating awareness for your e-book

Design Patterns: Faceted Navigation

Peter MORVILLE and Jeffery CALLENDER have written about Faceted Navigation in "A List Apart magazine" on APRIL 20, 2010. To quote:-

Also called guided navigation and faceted search, the faceted navigation model leverages metadata fields and values to provide users with visible options for clarifying and refining queries. Faceted navigation is arguably the most significant search innovation of the past decade.[2] It features an integrated, incremental search and browse experience that lets users begin with a classic keyword search and then scan a list of results. It also serves up a custom map (usually to the left of results) that provides insights into the content and its organization and offers a variety of useful next steps. That’s where faceted navigation proves its power. In keeping with the principles of progressive disclosure and incremental construction, users can formulate the equivalent of a sophisticated Boolean query by taking a series of small, simple steps. Faceted navigation addresses the universal need to narrow. Consequently, this pattern has become nearly ubiquitous in e-commerce, given the availability of structured metadata and the clear business value of improving product findability. Faceted navigation is being deployed rapidly across an impressively wide variety of contexts and platforms. In the world of search, faceted navigation is everywhere.