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...
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AAP: Publisher Revenue Rose by 4.6% in 2018
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...
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KDP University
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...
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Barnes & Noble Launches Ad Portal in B&N Press
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...
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How to Set Up and Edit Your Amazon.com Author Profile
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...
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USA Today: The US Book Industry Lost More Jobs in the Past Decade
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...
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Amazon Continues to Ignore the Hacking of Createspace Accounts
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....
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Amazon Launches a New Reports Site for Authors – KDP Reports
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...
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Draft2Digital Adds POD (beta)
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...
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Bowker’s ISBN Site Has Been Down for the Past Week
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...
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Data Guy Unmasked on LinkedIn as Bookstat CEO Paul Abbassi
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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Guest Post: Five Things Readers Consider When Choosing Their Next Book
For many authors, the best way to get your book to sell can sometimes be a mystery. Everywhere you look, different people suggest different things; making it hard to...
Continue readingB&N Press Now Offers Print Pre-Orders, ARC Sales
Whatever subcontractor is now running B&N Press on behalf of Barnes & Noble sure is doing a bang up job. They just announced a bevy of new features, including: Print...
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The Four Bios Every Author Needs
If you Google author bios you will find a million different articles, each with their own recommendation. Be short and too the point. Use the third person. Simply say...
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Nate’s Big List of Free Courses for Authors
Between marketing, social media, ads, writing, and book formatting, there are a million and one skills authors and other creators need to learn over the course of their career....
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