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Where to Go for Author Services without CreateSpace

7 August, 2018 // 2 Comments

by Esther Park of Kirkus Reviews In late November of 2016, the world of independent publishing was surprised by the news that Amazon had announced plans to close its CreateSpace fulfillment center in [Read More ...]

Guest Post: What Tech Startups Can Teach Authors About Marketing

28 April, 2018 // 2 Comments

by Evan Gow In the world of Startups, Dave McClure is a boss. He’s invested in 5 unicorns (a moniker for startups worth over a billion dollars), something very few people have done. Besides being [Read More ...]

Guest Post: The Importance of Actually Unplugging on National Day of Unplugging

8 March, 2018 // 4 Comments

by Jamie Gruman Instead of a smartphone, I have an old school cellphone. I can’t use it to check social media sites to see what my friends are up to. It won’t help me avoid traffic jams. And if [Read More ...]

Top Trends in Book Cover Design Forecast for 2018

6 December, 2017 // 9 Comments

By Lindsey Vontz, 99designs Grabbing a reader’s attention isn’t easy when there are hundreds of books on the shelf. But one way to make a book stand out? A great cover. A great book cover should [Read More ...]

The Book of My Enemy Has Been Remaindered

4 December, 2017 // 0 Comments

Editor's Note: The following poem was written by Clive James. I haven't been able to reach the author and secure permission for posting it here, so I will simply share the first of 4 stanzas and link [Read More ...]

Guest Post: B&N Needs to Get Over Its Fear

21 August, 2017 // 3 Comments

by Randy Lea I live in Vancouver, WA, with Powell's Bookstore in Portland about 40 miles away. I was thrilled when the B&N stores opened in the area, they were a lot smaller than Powell's, but [Read More ...]

How To Easily Proofread And Edit Your Own eBook

7 July, 2017 // 7 Comments

You've finally written the last word of your manuscript, and it's all done and dusted. You're now a fully fledged writer! However, after the writing comes the editing, and that's where some writers [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 ...]

Apple Launches HomePod Speaker to Bring Siri Into the Living Room

5 June, 2017 // 6 Comments

Apple is finally taking Alexa, which is available on a wide variety of hardware, seriously. On Monday Apple introduced the HomePod speaker to compete with Amazon.com Inc's Alexa assistant and Echo [Read More ...]

Apple Set to Expand Siri, Taking Different Route from Amazon’s Alexa

5 June, 2017 // 0 Comments

With its broad device support and constantly expanding skill set, Alexa its beating is competitors Cortana, Siri, and Google Home in the virtual assistant market. But it is still early days yet, and [Read More ...]

Amazon B&M in New York City

28 May, 2017 // 6 Comments

by Rickard Hollick Amazon’s new bricks and mortar store in Manhattan is on the third floor of the Time Warner Center. A few years ago we had a large Borders bookshop in this building, but of course [Read More ...]

Amazon Trounces Rivals in Battle of the Shopping Bots

12 May, 2017 // 2 Comments

Knowledge is power. This truism is why everyone in publishing reads the Author Earnings Report, and it is also why online retailers use bots to track their competitors' prices. Or rather, why they [Read More ...]

Amazon Cuts Free Shipping Minimum to $25

9 May, 2017 // 5 Comments

Amazon.com said on Tuesday it cut the threshold for free shipping to $25 from $35, upping the ante against Wal-Mart in a hotly contested battle for e-commerce supremacy. Amazon already offers free [Read More ...]

Amazon Sweeps US Market for Voice-Controlled Speakers: Study

8 May, 2017 // 0 Comments

The tablet market may be following the ereader market into a semi-permanent decline, but the smart home appliances market is still growing. And Amazon is in the perfect position to take advantage. [Read More ...]

EU Accepts Amazon eBook Commitments to Settle Antitrust Case

4 May, 2017 // 2 Comments

The most-favored-nation clause is a tool invented by Apple and used by Amazon to prevent being undercut by price competition. It is on house arrest in the European ebook market for the next five [Read More ...]

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