Publishing

Bookbaby 2017 Self-Publishing Survey Report Now Out

13 July, 2017 // 3 Comments

Last November Bookbaby conducted a survey which polled authors on everything from what genres they are publishing to how they're promoting their books. I just got an email today with the news that [Read More ...]

O’Reilly Responds to Customer Outcry With Explanation, Promise Restoration of PDF Editions

1 July, 2017 // 9 Comments

When news broke this week that O'Reilly Media was closing its ebookstore in favor of Safari Books Online and distributing to retailers like the Kindle Store, customers, fans, and supporters reacted [Read More ...]

JellyBooks Shuts Down Its eBook Discovery Service

29 June, 2017 // 0 Comments

JellyBooks has announced that it is shutting down its ebook discounting service as part of its pivot to focus on reader analytics. In March 2012, we started a service to help readers discover books. [Read More ...]

AAP Reports Trade Revenues Flat, eBook Revenues Down in 2016

15 June, 2017 // 4 Comments

The Association of American Publishers has released its end of year revenue report. The data is supplied by 1,200 member publishers, and reflects the net annual revenue of somewhere under half the [Read More ...]

Draft2Digital Adds Audiobook Distribution via Findaway Voice

14 June, 2017 // 3 Comments

With its universal book links, mailing list and ePub creation services, and broad distribution network, Draft2Digital has positioned itself as an upmarket alternative to Smashwords. Now D2D is [Read More ...]

Amazon Overhauls its Publishing Portal With New Dashboard

9 June, 2017 // 6 Comments

Amazon has quietly updated the KDP dashboard this week, giving users a new way to track their sales. The KDP reports section has been overhauled and gained a chart that displays recent activity [Read More ...]

Reedsy Partners with Blurb

8 June, 2017 // 1 Comment

The services marketplace Reedsy has announced a partnership with distributing services company Blurb to provide an end-to-end option for authors to take their work from manuscript to This [Read More ...]

Pronoun Now Distributes eBooks to Libraries

7 June, 2017 // 0 Comments

Macmillan-owned ebook distributor Pronoun announced today that it was now distributing ebooks to OverDrive and Biblioteca (formerly 3M Cloud Library). Pronoun offers a free distribution service that [Read More ...]

Authors Are Earning Less, And Other Hogwash

5 June, 2017 // 3 Comments

Literary agent Chip MacGregor is back this week with more baseless doom and gloom about the ebook market. When last we looked at MacGregor, he made various improbable predictions like we would soon [Read More ...]

Publishers Are Becoming More Like Movie Studios Every Day

23 May, 2017 // 15 Comments

It has long been said that the major trade publishers are beginning to act more and more like big Hollywood studios in that the publishers only care about best-seller/blockbuster titles now and not [Read More ...]

Ingenue-Washing Book Covers is the Hot New Thing

22 May, 2017 // 6 Comments

The book publishing industry is notorious for white-washing book covers by replacing the minority main character with a white (and sometimes male) figure who might not even be in the book. Now Tara [Read More ...]

Will Indie Authors Benefit From Amazon’s New Buy Button Policy?

18 May, 2017 // 12 Comments

When publishers collectively noticed a couple weeks back that Amazon was now giving its coveted buy button to whichever third-party seller offered the best deal on a title (as opposed to using it to [Read More ...]

Dutch Writing Community Sweek Reaches 100,000 Users

11 May, 2017 // 3 Comments

The writing and reading community Sweek reached a new milestone this week: 100,000 users. From the press release: Readers and writers from over 100 countries are already using Sweek. Both aspiring [Read More ...]

Never Write for Exposure, and Other Illogical Advice

10 May, 2017 // 8 Comments

If you are an active part of just about any community of writers online you ill surely have heard the bad advice that one should never write for exposure. As the falsism goes, writers should [Read More ...]

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