Publishing

Nate’s Big List of Writing, Marketing, and Publishing Podcasts

23 September, 2018 // 5 Comments

What do you call a group of 3 or more adults under 40? (a podcast) Podcasts are now so widespread that they inspired me to write the above joke, but that prevalence is also a curse. There are so many [Read More ...]

Instafreebie to Rebrand as Prolific Works

17 September, 2018 // 13 Comments

The free ebook distribution service Instafreebie announced on Monday that they rebranding the company on 1 October in anticipation of a pivot to provide new services. Instafreebie sent out an email [Read More ...]

Infographic: How Authors can use Infographics to Connect with Readers

18 August, 2018 // 2 Comments

Infographics are a popular marketing tool in the business world because they are a great way to get a company's name out in front of potential customers. A popular infographic could be shared [Read More ...]

Amazon Changes Payment Terms for German Distributors

14 August, 2018 // 2 Comments

Amazon has quietly changed the terms offered to several German ebook distributors, bringing them into line with most other ebook distributors. SelfPublisherBibel.de reports that ebooks distributed [Read More ...]

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 ...]

How to Upload a PDF to the Kindle Store, and Sell It

3 August, 2018 // 2 Comments

In my morning coffee link post this morning I included a post on The Book Designer where a so-called "expert" made various claims about PDFs, including that PDFs aren't ebooks and that PDFs "can’t [Read More ...]

A Kindle Unlimited Content Mill Has Been put up for Sale – Got $2.5 Million?

2 August, 2018 // 3 Comments

How would you like to be the next Hardy Boys? A friend has brought my attention to a new listing on the Empire Flippers business marketplace (thanks, Isobel!). It seems one of the content mills [Read More ...]

Nook Press Opens Its Doors to Authors in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand

26 July, 2018 // 0 Comments

Barnes & Noble's publisher portal sent an email yesterday to authors announcing that it wasn't dead - in fact, it even started accepting authors from outside the US. From KBoards: Dear Publisher, [Read More ...]

AAP Estimates US Book Publishing Industry Generated $26 Billion in Revenue Last Year

21 July, 2018 // 0 Comments

The Association of American Publishers released its annual StatShot estimate on Friday. You can buy the report from the AAP, or find the press release below. There isn't much detail in the public [Read More ...]

Updated: Tor Books is Now Windowing Library eBooks

19 July, 2018 // 12 Comments

Tor Books has just demonstrated that the decision makers at Macmillan are surprisingly ignorant on the basic principles of microeconomics in general. Earlier this weeks Tor Books informed libraries [Read More ...]

Want a Sword, Get Well Card, or Coffee Mug With That Book?

16 July, 2018 // 0 Comments

Earlier today The Book Designer published a post where I argue that authors should invest in swag to give away or sell to their fans. This is still be a rather controversial idea in the indie author [Read More ...]

Five Ways Authors Can Use Alexa

12 July, 2018 // 5 Comments

Amazon has been shipping the Echo smart speakers for several years now, but the tech is still new to some of us. For example, I just got my first Echo, an Echo Dot. I'm still finding out what it can [Read More ...]

Amazon Updates KDP Rules to Discourage Book-Stuffing

12 July, 2018 // 3 Comments

Amazon has finally taken steps to squash the cheating in Kindle Unlimited once and for all. They just updated the KDP content guidelines with new rules about compilations, collections, and other [Read More ...]

Book Funnel Launches Download Codes

10 July, 2018 // 1 Comment

Book fairs and trade shows are a couple of the only times that print books have a clear advantage over ebooks. It's really hard to give away or sell ebooks to the person standing in front of you [Read More ...]

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