Anti-viral writings for financial resilience, location independence and meaningful relationships.
First and foremost, I have to tell you that this article has more than 2000 words. So, if you’re after the “quick and easy guide on how to write a successful ebook”, well, you’re in the wrong place. It’s not gonna be even remotely “quick”, and I have my doubts about “easy”. Sorry about the … Read more
As of today, the Kindle exclusivity – required by the enrollment in the Kindle Select program – is over. Which means that the book “How To Self-Publish On Amazon, Kindle And iBookStore” is available as a PDF download too. [Later update: it was just approved as an iBook too in iBookStore] For those of you … Read more
Almost a year ago, I wrote an article about self-publishing. It was roughly a personal story about my own struggles with the process, a few detailed descriptions of some of the most intricate stages and a bit of an evaluation. Fast forward a year: today, the article has more than 350 comments. It was mentioned … Read more
It had to happen. After giving it a lot of thought (and a few hours of fiddling with the interface of Appscend.com) I decided to publish a portable version of this blog on the AppStore. If you’re the “just give me the link and save the blah-blah” type, here it is: DragosRoua.com – the portable … Read more
It was a bit of a roller coaster in here lately, with a lot of stuff coming up to my plate. We had the first major release at WPSumo for this year, which includes the long awaited child theme documentation (among other superlicious things, of course) and so I was a bit behind the schedule … Read more
As I suspected, after the first promotion post, I got a few emails about some of the promo codes not working. Of course they work, only the one I’ve published were already taken. Bummer! So, here I am, with the second round of promo codes. If you don’t know yet what these promo codes are, … Read more
A few weeks ago, Apple introduced promo codes for iBookStore. A long time veteran of the AppStore, the promo code was probably the most used marketing technique for app promotion. As an Apple developer myself, I can certainly vouch for this affirmation. So, it isn’t surprising that I instantly jumped the ebooks promo code train, … Read more
Recently, Apple allowed authors with books published on their iBookStore to use promo codes. A stable and very popular feature for iOS developers who published their apps in AppStore, promo codes were unavailable for iBookStore until now. I confess I was a bit confused on how to use these promo codes, since there is no … Read more
