Publishing

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 ...]

Draft2Digital Now Distributes to Kobo Plus

9 May, 2017 // 5 Comments

Shortly after Kobo launched Kobo Plus in February, Draft2Digital announced that it would soon be adding the ebook subscription service as a distribution channel. That day has arrived: Draft2Digital [Read More ...]

Book Publishers Are Whining About Amazon Giving the Buy Button to the Seller w\ the Lowest Price

8 May, 2017 // 15 Comments

Publishers are furious (and The Authors Guild is livid) that the copies of books that publishers had sold off cheap are now getting preferential treatment on Amazon.com. Starting about two months [Read More ...]

Milo Yiannopoulos to Sue Simon & Schuster, Self-Publish Memoir

8 May, 2017 // 10 Comments

After getting fired and losing a book deal when he espoused a pro-pedophilia position, Milo Yiannopoulos has announced that he is self-publishing the memoir that was dropped by S&S. From The [Read More ...]

Indie Author Day is on 14 October 2017

1 May, 2017 // 2 Comments

Indie Author Day is a one-day international event for authors to collaborate with their local libraries. Last year, nearly 10,000 authors and 300 libraries across the United States and Canada [Read More ...]

Pronoun Adds Local Pricing, “More by This Author”

30 April, 2017 // 0 Comments

Remember a couple weeks' back when one author claimed Pronoun had added a link spam section to the end of his book? I could not find any evidence to support the claim at the time, but apparently [Read More ...]

99Designs Now Makes eBooks

26 April, 2017 // 1 Comment

99Designs has made a name for itself as a market where artists compete to win projects. Now it is expanding into book design. I just got a press release this afternoon with the news that publishers [Read More ...]

Lessons Learned from “Google Eating a Business Whole”

25 April, 2017 // 3 Comments

The Outline published a story last week on CelebrityNetWorth.com and what happened after Google appropriated the site's work for Google's search results. That is the focus of the article, but as I [Read More ...]

AAP Reports Print Up, eBooks Down 16.2% Through November 2016

14 April, 2017 // 2 Comments

The Association of American Publishers reported on Friday that its members had just about managed to supplant their ongoing decline in ebook sales with print sales. great job at treading water, guys, [Read More ...]

Bonnier Launches New Digital Imprint, Bookery

30 March, 2017 // 1 Comment

The Swedish publishing conglomerate Bonnier has launched an ebook subscription service and a self-pub service, but that doesn't mean they have lost sight of the legacy industry. Bonnier launched a [Read More ...]

AAP: Trade Book Sales Down a Percent, eBook Sales Down 17% Through October 2016

22 March, 2017 // 2 Comments

Some segments of the legacy book publishing had good news in the AAP's latest month report, but overall the news was bleak. Trade book revenues were down 7.5% in the month of October, and as a [Read More ...]

Amazon Author Insights Has Tips for Indie Authors

21 March, 2017 // 4 Comments

There are many experts who can help authors get published, and now Amazon has gathered all that advice on a single site. Currently in beta, Amazon Author Insights features the advice of many [Read More ...]

Cory Doctorow Launches a Bookstore Where Authors Sell on Behalf of Publishers – Wait, What?

16 March, 2017 // 15 Comments

Cory Doctorow just announced his support for an ebookstore platform that has me scratching my head. It's not just that he has apparently abandoned his support for free Creative Commons-licensed [Read More ...]

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