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AAP Reports eBook Sales Down 5% in January 2019

14 March, 201914 March, 2019AAP, ebook salesLeave a 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 million in January...

Writer’s Digest Parent Company F+W Media Files for Bankruptcy

11 March, 201911 March, 2019Conferences & Trade shows, Publishing5 Comments

I was hoping to present at the Writer's Digest Conference in NYC this August, but now it looks like the conference could be canceled. Forbes reports that F+W Media...

Reedsy Launches a Book Discovery Service

4 March, 20194 March, 2019Marketing, Self-Pub6 Comments

In a time when many authors buy Facebook and Amazon ads to catch the attention of readers, Reedsy is launching a book discovery service called Reedsy Discovery. Throwing humility...

Books-a-Million is Shutting Down its Self-Pub Portal, BAM Publish

27 February, 201927 February, 2019Self-PubOne Comment

It's been hard to keep an eye on the USA's second largest bookstore chain, given that B&N continues to be such a distracting train wreck. You would be forgiven...

Draft2Digital Now Distributes to Google Play Books

27 February, 201927 February, 2019Self-PubOne Comment

Draft2Digital announced on Tuesday that they're beta-testing a new distribution channel that will help authors reach more readers. According to the email going out to authors, D2D now...

AAP: Publisher Revenue Rose by 4.6% in 2018

12 February, 201912 February, 2019AAP, ebook sales4 Comments

The Association of American Publishers has published its annual revenue report for the 1,375 publishers who submit their revenue data to the AAP. This info is not to be confused...

KDP University

7 February, 20197 February, 2019Self-PubOne Comment

Chris McMullen has brought my attention to one of Amazon's educational programs for publishers. Amazon is now holding webinars online (there's even one scheduled for later today) and also posting...

Barnes & Noble Launches Ad Portal in B&N Press

22 January, 201922 January, 2019Barnes & Noble, Marketing, Self-PubLeave a comment

Barnes & Noble sure likes to send mixed messages. They may have stopped promoting the Nook with in-store signage, but at the same time the B&N Press team is...

How to Set Up and Edit Your Amazon.com Author Profile

6 January, 20196 January, 2019Kindle (platform), Marketing, Self-Pub2 Comments

KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing) is widely seen as a self-publishing portal. This is funny both because publishers use it to manage their titles in the Kindle Store, and also...

USA Today: The US Book Industry Lost More Jobs in the Past Decade

18 December, 201818 December, 2018PublishingLeave a comment

The internet has made many jobs redundant in much the same way that the word processor made the typing pool a thing of the past, and nowhere is that...

Amazon Continues to Ignore the Hacking of Createspace Accounts

21 November, 201821 November, 2018Amazon, Security & Privacy, Self-PubLeave a comment

As I am sure you have read both here and on The Book Designer, for the past seven months hackers have been targeting accounts on Amazon's POD service, Createspace....

Amazon Launches a New Reports Site for Authors – KDP Reports

14 November, 201814 November, 2018Kindle (platform), Self-Pub5 Comments

Word is circulating through KBoards and Facebook today that Amazon is testing a new site where authors can track their sales data. It's called KDP Reports, and looks something...

Draft2Digital Adds POD (beta)

30 October, 201830 October, 2018POD, Self-PubLeave a comment

From the D2D blog: Right now we are beta testing our new print on demand (POD) service, finding and eliminating any bugs and technical challenges, and making this a...

Bowker’s ISBN Site Has Been Down for the Past Week

30 October, 20182 November, 2018Publishing10 Comments

It's not just you. MyIdentifiers.com, the site in charge of ISBN registrations and sales in the US, has been down for the past week. What was originally planned to...

Data Guy Unmasked on LinkedIn as Bookstat CEO Paul Abbassi

25 October, 201825 October, 2018Self-Pub12 Comments

For the past few years one of the most widely known "secrets" was the identity of Data Guy, the pseudonymous creator of the Author Earnings Reports (at right). Many...

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