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You Can Get on the Sunday Times’s Best-Seller List by Selling Fewer Than 2K Copies

21 July, 202023 July, 2020Self-Pub12 Comments

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...

Godaddy Shut Down Its Virb Site Builder Platform With No Notice – Here’s How to Pick Up the Pieces

12 July, 202012 July, 2020Self-Pub2 Comments

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...

PSA: Go Check Your Mailerlite Account

29 June, 202029 June, 2020blog maintenance, Self-Pub3 Comments

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...

Fastpencil Rebrands as Opyrus

18 June, 202018 June, 2020Self-PubLeave a comment

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...

Lulu Borked Their Platform in the April Update, and It’s Still Not Fixed

17 June, 202018 June, 2020Self-Pub4 Comments

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...

If Your Books Isn’t Shipping During the Quarantine, Here’s Why

19 April, 202020 April, 2020Publishing11 Comments

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...

Simon & Schuster is Up For Sale

4 March, 20206 March, 2020Publishing6 Comments

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...

The Authors Guild Rehashes Bogus Author Income Survey as a “New” Report

21 February, 202021 February, 2020DeBunking, The Authors Guild6 Comments

Earlier this week The Publishers Authors Guild released a report that “explores the factors leading to the decline in the writing profession. Alas, this report is...

Penguin Random House Pulls eBooks and Audiobooks From Netflix-Style Subscription Access Services

22 January, 202022 January, 2020Publishing4 Comments

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...

Publishers Object to Losing the Ability to Profit From Publishing Papers They Didn’t Pay For (And Research They Didn’t Fund)

22 December, 201923 December, 2019AAP4 Comments

I don’t say this enough but one of the problems in academic publishing is how journal publishers are exploiting the academic “publish or perish” imperative to...