Today’s Archive Dive takes us to October 2010, when I offered a quick refresher on ISBNs.
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It’s hard to believe. With Halloween mere hours away, I’ve begun to receive notices from advertisers about preparing for holiday promotion.
And if you can’t beat them, I guess you have to join them.
To that end, in addition to a holiday-merchandise primer I offered a waaaaaay back in July(!), here’s something I implemented on my site this week that I’m tracking closely.
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As you may have noticed, uploading a JPEG to your WordPress site kicks off an automatic process in which the file is compressed about 80%. This is great for the run-of-the-mill blogger that consitutes WordPress’ bread-and-butter user. But for us artists? Not so much.
In our cases, we’ve already compressed the image to the degree that we’re comfortable with — and an additional compression on top of that can sometimes add artifacts that make our images look worse than we intended!
So how do you prevent this from happening? Philip M. “Frumph” Hofer, the creator of the ubiquitous webcomics theme Comic Easel, has a solution.
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This is the last of this year’s Hitch It / Ditch It Hot Seat series. The rules are simple: I go to your site and point of one thing you’re doing well, and one thing that might stand some improvement. The discussion goes on from there are the members join in with their thoughts.
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Today’s dive into the Webcomics.com archive is about a useful app that your readers can use to get better access to your digital downloads.
This is great news for people, like me, who were offering MOBI files directly to readers who own the Kindle Fire.
Previously, getting a file to a user’s Fire meant following a several-step process that was, needless to say, daunting.
Kindle has now released a simple, easy, drag-and-drop app named Send To Kindle.
I debated posting about this because it’s not directly comics-related, but I’ve used it so many times in the past month that I have to figure that it’s something that many of you might find handy, too.
Have you ever had a file on your iPhone that you couldn’t access? Maybe it’s too big to be e-mailed. Or perhaps it’s too large to be backed up to a server over WiFi.
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Q.: The books of yours on Amazon, are you doing that via Amazon Advantage or some other method? I was reading about Amazon Advantage and it SEEMS to make sense.
I think I also got spooked by this section of the Membership Agreement they ask you to accept:
12. Limited License Grant to Descriptive Materials
You grant to Amazon.com a royalty-free, nonexclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable right and license to (a) use, reproduce, perform, display, distribute and prepare derivative works from the Descriptive Materials (defined below) and (b) sublicense the foregoing rights.
“Descriptive Materials” means all available information about each Product, including without limitation artwork and text for the packaging (including for example, cover, jacket, jacket flaps, spine and front and back matter); promotional photographs and descriptions, blurbs, author bios, Library of Congress information, title page information, tables of contents, indices, complete Product descriptions, reviews and any other materials concerning the Product. Aside from those portions of each Product identified in the preceding sentence, for the purposes of this Agreement, Descriptive Materials does not include the internal content contained in the Products, such as the text of a book or the recording or musical compositions contained within a CD.
A. My books are distributed through Diamond Books (an offshoot of Diamond Comics Distributors), but that doesn’t mean the Amazon deal isn’t good. I’m still researching it, but it looks like a pretty decent deal. Let’s break it down.
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Comic Easel has added a handy new shortcode to help you place your comic into a page or blog post — and it will be already linked to that comic’s page in your archive.
Here’s a quick tutorial.
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For today’s Dive into the Webcomics.com Archive, we go to October 27, 2011, and a post about how to maximize Google AdSense.
The key to making money with Google AdSense is CTR (Click Through Rate). AdSense pays out every time someone clicks on an ad (as opposed to other ad services which might pay per view). So to increase your revenue, you have to increase your clicks. And that means you need to help Google deliver ads that your readers want to see.
This is the next installment in the current Hot Seat series. This one’s a Hitch it / Ditch it critique. In short: I go to participants’ sites and list something they could improve (and offer my thoughts on how they could do that), and then I talk about something they’re doing well.
As always, this is only the beginning of the discussion. Members are encouraged to share their thoughts on the matter in the comments below.
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