Publishing

How to Lease a Virtual Mac Online to Upload eBooks to iBooks

1 July, 2018 // 12 Comments

Apple is notorious for the ridiculously pointless rule that if you want to sell ebooks on their platform, you have to use their app and their hardware to do so (or go through an aggregator). While [Read More ...]

Edie Bryant, Hayden Hunt, and How to Turn One Novel Into Two By Changing the Pronouns

27 June, 2018 // 12 Comments

Authors are always trying to get more books written faster. It's not just that more titles equals more sales, but also that Amazon's algorithms reward authors who publish the most often. That's why [Read More ...]

The Authors Guild Launches an Amazon/Author Dispute Resolution Channel

9 June, 2018 // 2 Comments

The Authors Guild has a well-deserved reputation for being a puppet of legacy publishers. This group has never missed an opportunity to bash Amazon and spread FUD (even though Amazon does more [Read More ...]

Book Printer File For Bankruptcy, Stiffs Customers on Outstanding Orders

8 June, 2018 // 1 Comment

When book printer Edwards Brothers Malloy announced last week that it was winding down its operations and would complete all outstanding jobs. It's with heavy hearts we announce that Edwards Brothers [Read More ...]

Authors, Don’t Be Taken in by the Blockchain/Bitcoin Hype

4 June, 2018 // 7 Comments

If you have been following tech news then you've probably heard the term blockchain mentioned more than once. This word is rarely explained in non-technical terms, but it is thrown around a lot by [Read More ...]

Grow Your Author Mailing List with These 7 Essential Tools

3 June, 2018 // 0 Comments

You've heard over and over that the best way to promote your author career is a robust mailing list. This is true no matter the product, the business model, or the industry. A mailing list is [Read More ...]

AAP Reports Trade Revenues Up 6.3%, eBook Revenues Down 3.2% in First Quarter

28 May, 2018 // 0 Comments

The American Association of Publishers reported a surprising jump in trade revenues on Friday. Overall revenues rose 6.2% ($143.2 million) while trade revenues were up 6.2%, to $1.59 billion. In [Read More ...]

Nate’s Big List of Email Service Companies

26 May, 2018 // 11 Comments

Social media and crowd-funding may be getting all the hype, but frankly the most effective way to make a sale or build an audience is through mailing lists. You can maintain a mailing list in your [Read More ...]

Seven Drop Dead Simple Ways Authors Can Grow Their Audience in 20 Minutes or less

21 May, 2018 // 1 Comment

One of the first - and possibly the most important - things authors learn about developing their writing career is that marketing is not something you can just do once and then forget about. Instead, [Read More ...]

Nate’s Big List of eBook Market Analytic Tools

15 May, 2018 // 6 Comments

Finding the right niche / genre / keywords to market your book, and then parsing the sales data once your ebook is on the market, can mean the difference between a best-seller book and one no one has [Read More ...]

Internet Archive Wants You to Turn Your Site Into a Pirate Site

13 May, 2018 // 4 Comments

The Open Library is a free web library slash pirate site run by the Internet Archive. It lends ebooks, and can be used by anyone online. A recent update added a new option where anyone with a website [Read More ...]

AAP: Publisher eBook Sales Fell almost 5% in 2017

9 May, 2018 // 3 Comments

The Association of American Publishers has released its end of year revenue report for the legacy publishing industry. As expected, trade revenues were essentially flat (a 1.3% increase), while ebook [Read More ...]

Amazon is Beta-Testing New Author Pages

9 May, 2018 // 4 Comments

I just read in the 20Booksto50K Facebook group that you can now find a couple different author pages on Amazon.com. The old page, which is shown below (link), features different styling from the [Read More ...]

Cockygate: Faleena Hopkins Has Registered a Trademark on Cocky, and is Using it to Threaten Other Romance Authors

5 May, 2018 // 81 Comments

Trademark bullying is a pox on industries ranging from breweries to whatever over-priced junk Monster Cable is making this week. A trademark bully's ostensible goal is to keep consumers from getting [Read More ...]

What All the Coverage Missed About Amazon’s New Prime Book Box Service

3 May, 2018 // 3 Comments

Amazon's new book of the month club replacement, the Prime Book Box, got a lot of attention when it was announced on Tuesday, but so far everyone (including me) seems to have missed the important [Read More ...]

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