The hot news in the publishing world today is that one of the world’s largest media conglomerates just got a little bigger. Bertelsmann, the parent company of Penguin Random House,...Continue reading
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Amazon Launches New Author Portal
About three years back Amazon started beta-testing a new author portal called Amazon Author (not to be confused with Author Central). That new portal officially launched this past week with...Continue reading
How to Find and Use Images in Your Blog Posts
There’s a problem with how a lot of writers approach writing online; they focus on words. This is a problem because modern web design is based on the idea that...Continue reading
How to Sell eBooks on an Author Website: The Beginner’s Guide
When I launched my Author Website in a Box project last June, one of the first questions that came across my inbox was how to build a bookstore on the...Continue reading
Sargent Out at Macmillan
John Sargent is being let go from his position as CEO of Macmillan, and it probably has to do with the policies he set for ebooks. Sargent is leaving Macmillan...Continue reading
Boook.link Lets Authors Create “Universal” Book Links (Including to Libraries and GoodReads)
Are you familiar with Draft2Digital’s Universal Links feature, the tool which helps authors find and link to all the stores where their ebooks (and audiobooks) can be found? I have...Continue reading
You Can Get on the Sunday Times’s Best-Seller List by Selling Fewer Than 2K Copies
I know everyone is upset that Mark Dawson has publicly admitted to buying his way on to a best-seller list, but I for one was surprised to learn that the...Continue reading
Godaddy Shut Down Its Virb Site Builder Platform With No Notice – Here’s How to Pick Up the Pieces
Here’s some frustrating news for authors and industry freelancers. It seems Godaddy has seen fit to turn off the lights on one of its website builders, Virb. According to...Continue reading
PSA: Go Check Your Mailerlite Account
My weekly email with blog posts did not go out this morning, and we have Mailerlite to blame for that. The mailing list provider updated their platform late last week,...Continue reading
Fastpencil Rebrands as Opyrus
Fastpencil sent out an email yesterday, informing us that it was re-branding as Opyrus. We are very excited to announce that FastPencil, a leading all-in-one solution for creating, distributing and...Continue reading
Lulu Borked Their Platform in the April Update, and It’s Still Not Fixed
The publishing services provider Lulu has been in something of a tizzy these past few months. The company updated its platform on April as part of launching its new services...Continue reading
If Your Books Isn’t Shipping During the Quarantine, Here’s Why
Everyone knows that the current quarantine is throwing a wrench in the book publishing works, but what does that really mean? Earlier this month an editor with a leading SF...Continue reading
Simon & Schuster is Up For Sale
It looks like the Big Five is about to become the Not-So-Big-Four. Variety reports that ViacomCBS (or whatever they are calling themselves today) is considering a sale of its book...Continue reading
Penguin Random House Pulls eBooks and Audiobooks From Netflix-Style Subscription Access Services
PRH is backing out of its contracts with ebook and audiobook subscription services. Last week they pulled their ebooks from several Europe-based Kindle Unlimited competitors, and now they are pulling...Continue reading
Say Good-Bye to the Ten-Digit ISBN
The Book Industry Study Group (BISG) announced last week that newly purchased ISBNs sold through Bowker will soon be sporting a 979 prefix. Bowker’s John Purcell and Pat Payton said...Continue reading