Self-publishing enhanced eBooks gets easier every day. One new advance is the Vook publishing platform, a comprehensive, cloud-based tool that allows authors and publishers to turn any document into a professionally styled eBook, complete with embedded images, videos and other multimedia. Vook's platform then makes it easy to distribute the finished e-book to Amazon, iBooks and BN.com. Another is Demibooks Storytime, a new e-reader app for the iPad that offers a multipublisher retail marketplace for interactive children’s books created using the Demibook Composer eBook platform. The Storytime app means retailers have another outlet besides the Apple store, which can be difficult to search. The app is integrated with Facebook and allows users to share content.
Both these companies are helping self-publishers and small presses create content and market on par with the big houses. If you're even considering publishing your own eBook, take a look. And stay tuned for the next big thing, which is surely coming soon.
