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Amazon Releases Word Doc Templates for Making Better POD Books

9 June, 2017 // 3 Comments

When Amazon first launched KDP Print in beta last year, it asked publishers and authors to trust that Amazon could take any ebook and turn it into a good-looking POD book. Now Amazon is offering a [Read More ...]

Amazon Overhauls its Publishing Portal With New Dashboard

9 June, 2017 // 1 Comment

Amazon has quietly updated the KDP dashboard this week, giving users a new way to track their sales. The KDP reports section has been overhauled and gained a chart that displays recent activity [Read More ...]

Morning Coffee – 9 June 2017

8 June, 2017 // 0 Comments

Here are a few stories to read this morning. Buying houses in cash and selling millions: meet self-publishing's 'hidden' authors (The Guardian) A Brief History Of The Strand, As The Legendary [Read More ...]

Users Protest Amazon Ending its Unlimited Cloud Storage Plan

8 June, 2017 // 1 Comment

Amazon's $60 unlimited plan for Cloud Drive was one of the better deals for cloud storage (unless you managed to get it when it was $5). Now that plan is going away. Starting today, Amazon has [Read More ...]

Reedsy Partners with Blurb

8 June, 2017 // 0 Comments

The services marketplace Reedsy has announced a partnership with distributing services company Blurb to provide an end-to-end option for authors to take their work from manuscript to This [Read More ...]

Onyx Boox Prometheus 2 Android eReader – $422

8 June, 2017 // 2 Comments

Onyx has a number of cutting-edge gadgets like the Onyx Typewriter, Onyx Boox Monitor, and the Boox e-Note in the pipeline, but that doesn't mean they've stopped releasing regular ereaders. The [Read More ...]

New York Libraries Are Promoting Reading on the Subway

8 June, 2017 // 0 Comments

The New York Public Library's second annual subway reading promotion kicked off this week. Last year the program was called Subway Reads, and included Penguin as a named partner (they paid for the [Read More ...]

Morning Coffee – 8 June 2017

7 June, 2017 // 1 Comment

Here are a few stories to read this morning. The Stockholm Syndrome Theory of Long Novels (The Millions) Audible launches £10,000 writing grant (The Bookseller) KCI passengers asked to remove all [Read More ...]

Pronoun Now Distributes eBooks to Libraries

7 June, 2017 // 0 Comments

Macmillan-owned ebook distributor Pronoun announced today that it was now distributing ebooks to OverDrive and Biblioteca (formerly 3M Cloud Library). Pronoun offers a free distribution service that [Read More ...]

Audiobook Sales Up 18.2% in 2016, to $2.1 Billion

7 June, 2017 // 1 Comment

The Audio Publishers Association posted a few of the result from their annual consumer survey today. The APA is estimating that audiobook sales totaled more than $2.1 billion in the US in 2016, up [Read More ...]

Textbook Publishers Now Fight Piracy With Seals of Approval

7 June, 2017 // 1 Comment

Publishers have been raising textbook prices for so many decades and have driven the price of textbooks so high that they have created a profitable opportunity for counterfeiters. There's serious [Read More ...]

Petty Inconvenience is Next to Godliness

7 June, 2017 // 2 Comments

Today I learned that petty inconvenience is next to godliness. Amy Koss called upon the strain of puritanism that runs through American culture and penned a screed in the LA Times which describes [Read More ...]

Morning Coffee – 7 June 2017

6 June, 2017 // 0 Comments

Here are a few stories to read this morning. 10 Banned and Challenged Comics for Summer Reading! (Comic Book Legal Defense Fund) The Incredible Shrinking BookExpo: A 2017 Recap From An Indie [Read More ...]

Amazon Gave Your Notes & Highlights a New Home on the Web

6 June, 2017 // 4 Comments

For many years now Amazon has enabled Kindle users to manage and share their annotations via a website at Kindle.Amazon.com (just one of many ways you can curate your notes). Now Amazon has launched [Read More ...]

Amazon Offers Prime Discount for Some US Customers Receiving Government Aid

6 June, 2017 // 3 Comments

Amazon is now discounting Prime for customers receiving certain types of government aid. (Corporations, farm subsidy recipients, and mortgage holders will not benefit.) On Tuesday Amazon said it [Read More ...]

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Allen F on Amazon Releases Word Doc Templates for Making Better POD BooksGood timing on this bit as I just gave my second book over to my editor and I'll have time