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Washington Post Revises a Year’s Worth of Best-Seller Lists, Assures us the Problem Will Not Recur

28 July, 201929 July, 2019Best-Seller List8 Comments

It has long been acknowledged that getting on a best-seller list has little value to authors; it won't help you sell more books, and is really...

Publisher Revenue Up 4.5% Through April 2019, eBook Revenues Down 2.5%

14 July, 201914 July, 2019AAP, ebook salesLeave a comment

For some reason I do not understand, I have fallen off the AAP's mailing list. Here is a belated report on publisher revenues from the Association...

AAP: Publisher Revenue Up 6.7% in First Quarter, eBook Revenue Down 4.5%

18 June, 201918 June, 2019AAP, ebook salesOne Comment

The Association of American Publishers the March StatShot Monthly report which includes data for the first three months of 2019 on Monday. Among the highlights: Overall...

PRH Buys Half of F+W Media At Auction, Including Half of Writer’s Digest

8 June, 20198 June, 2019Bankruptcy, Publishing5 Comments

Do you know that story in the Bible where Solomon orders a baby cut in half in order to settle a dispute about who was the...

Amazon Launches Worldwide Full-Language Support for Traditional Chinese in Kindle eBooks

24 May, 201924 May, 2019Kindle (platform), Self-Pub2 Comments

Amazon first started selling Chinese-language Kindle ebooks in 2012, but only in China. Chinese expats or foreign-language learners either had to find another source or use...

KDP Reports Dashboard Now Has a Royalties Estimator

23 May, 201923 May, 2019Kindle (platform), Self-PubOne Comment

I have just heard via the 20Booksto50K group on Facebook that Amazon has added a new royalty estimator to the KDP Reports dashboard that launched last...

Nine Tips for Authors Going to Their First Book Fair (updated)

19 May, 201914 July, 2019Conferences & Trade shows, Self-PubOne Comment

Book fairs and other local events can be a great way for authors to connect with readers and make new fans. They are immensely valuable, but...

Google Play Books is Cutting Out the Middleman, Now Wants a Direct Relationship with Authors and Publishers

16 May, 201916 May, 2019Google Books, Self-Pub10 Comments

Many authors and publishers use a company such as PublishDrive or Draft2Digital to handle their distribution to smaller ebook retailers. They trade a small cut of...

Amazon: Over 1,000 Authors Each Earned Over $100 Grand in Royalties in 2018

7 May, 20197 May, 2019Amazon, Self-Pub3 Comments

Amazon released an advert a report on Tuesday concerning its impact on small and medium businesses. Or as Amazon put it: Amazon today published the...

DC Public Library Wants to Add Local Self-Published Authors to Their Catalog

18 April, 201918 April, 2019Library eBooks, Self-Pub2 Comments

A couple weeks ago I shared a link to a DCist post about the DC Public Library launching a program where local indie authors can submit...

AAP Reports Publisher Revenue Up 7.2% in February 2019

17 April, 201918 June, 2019AAPOne Comment

AAP just issued the February StatShot Monthly report which includes data for the first two months of 2019. Among the highlights: Overall participating publisher revenue was $754.0...

Exclusive: Bookbaby to be Spun Off Following Acquisition of Parent Company AVL Digital Group

31 March, 201931 March, 2019Self-PubOne Comment

Here's an important piece of ebook news from last week that literally no one has noticed yet. The parent company of Bookbaby, AVL Digital Group,...

B&N Press Now Offers eBook Coupon Codes

30 March, 201930 March, 2019Barnes & Noble, POD, Self-Pub2 Comments

B&N Press continues to add features, lending credence to rumors about an impending sale of the Nook division. I just got an email from B&N, informing...

The End of Author Earnings Report, Redux

29 March, 201929 March, 2019Self-Pub, statistics13 Comments

Writing over at TNPS, Mark Williams reported earlier this week that Paul Abbassi's (AKA Data Guy's) 5-year-old Author Earnings Report website had been down for a...

AAP Reports eBook Sales Down 5% in January 2019

14 March, 201914 March, 2019AAP, ebook salesOne Comment

The Association of American Publishers reported Thursday that publisher reported revenue fell in the first month of 2019. Combined revenue for trade (consumer) books was $543.8...

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