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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...

Say Good-Bye to the Ten-Digit ISBN

3 December, 20193 December, 2019Publishing6 Comments

The Book Industry Study Group (BISG) announced last week that newly purchased ISBNs sold through Bowker will soon be sporting a 979 prefix. Bowker’s John Purcell...

Ten Tips for Authors Going to Their First Book Fair (updated)

17 November, 201917 November, 2019Conferences & Trade shows, Self-Pub4 Comments

Book fairs and other local events can be a great way for authors to connect with readers and make new fans. They are immensely valuable, but...

Kobo and FNAC Partner to Launch a POD Service

27 October, 201927 October, 2019Kobo, Self-PubOne Comment

Earlier this month Kobo partnered with the French retailer Fnac to offer a print-on-demand service through Bookelis. Authors who have their books in Kobo Writing Life can...

KDP Print Expands to Canada

22 October, 201922 October, 2019Kindle (platform), POD, Self-Pub4 Comments

Amazon’s POD service has expanded into the land of moose and snow. The retailer announced in the KDP support forums last week that KDP Print could...

ISBN Registrations Jump 40% After Createspace is Merged Into KDP Print

16 October, 201917 October, 2019Publishing8 Comments

Bowker, the private company responsible for issuing ISBNs in the US, released its annual report on the number ISBN’s sold last year. The data doesn’t tell...

Why Is It a Big Deal That HarperCollins Puts “Hundreds” if Titles in Kindle Unlimited When They Already Have “Thousands” in Scribd?

2 October, 20192 October, 2019Kindle (platform), Publishing8 Comments

The hot publishing news story this week has everyone talking excitedly, but it’s left me scratching my head. There’s a (paywalled) story over on The Bookseller...

Is Anyone Else Not Seeing the New Audiobook Section in Kobo Writing Life?

1 October, 20191 October, 2019Kobo, Self-Pub6 Comments

One of the more interesting news stories last week was Kobo’s announcement that Kobo Writing Life now distributed audiobooks (I didn’t expect this to happen until...

Washington Post Revises a Year’s Worth of Best-Seller Lists, Assures us the Problem Will Not Recur

28 July, 201929 July, 2019Best-Seller List8 Comments

It has long been acknowledged that getting on a best-seller list has little value to authors; it won’t help you sell more books, and is really...

Publisher Revenue Up 4.5% Through April 2019, eBook Revenues Down 2.5%

14 July, 201914 July, 2019AAP, ebook salesLeave a comment

For some reason I do not understand, I have fallen off the AAP’s mailing list. Here is a belated report on publisher revenues from the Association...

AAP: Publisher Revenue Up 6.7% in First Quarter, eBook Revenue Down 4.5%

18 June, 201918 June, 2019AAP, ebook salesOne Comment

The Association of American Publishers the March StatShot Monthly report which includes data for the first three months of 2019 on Monday. Among the highlights: Overall...

PRH Buys Half of F+W Media At Auction, Including Half of Writer’s Digest

8 June, 20198 June, 2019Bankruptcy, Publishing5 Comments

Do you know that story in the Bible where Solomon orders a baby cut in half in order to settle a dispute about who was the...

Amazon Launches Worldwide Full-Language Support for Traditional Chinese in Kindle eBooks

24 May, 201924 May, 2019Kindle (platform), Self-Pub2 Comments

Amazon first started selling Chinese-language Kindle ebooks in 2012, but only in China. Chinese expats or foreign-language learners either had to find another source or use...

KDP Reports Dashboard Now Has a Royalties Estimator

23 May, 201923 May, 2019Kindle (platform), Self-PubOne Comment

I have just heard via the 20Booksto50K group on Facebook that Amazon has added a new royalty estimator to the KDP Reports dashboard that launched last...