The End of Author Earnings Report, Redux
Writing over at TNPS, Mark Williams reported earlier this week that Paul Abbassi's (AKA Data Guy's) 5-year-old Author Earnings Report website had been down for a...Continue reading
Category: Publishing
AAP Reports eBook Sales Down 5% in January 2019
The Association of American Publishers reported Thursday that publisher reported revenue fell in the first month of 2019. Combined revenue for trade (consumer) books was $543.8...Continue reading
Writer’s Digest Parent Company F+W Media Files for Bankruptcy
I was hoping to present at the Writer's Digest Conference in NYC this August, but now it looks like the conference could be canceled. Forbes reports...Continue reading
Reedsy Launches a Book Discovery Service
In a time when many authors buy Facebook and Amazon ads to catch the attention of readers, Reedsy is launching a book discovery service called Reedsy...Continue reading
Books-a-Million is Shutting Down its Self-Pub Portal, BAM Publish
It's been hard to keep an eye on the USA's second largest bookstore chain, given that B&N continues to be such a distracting train wreck. You...Continue reading
Draft2Digital Now Distributes to Google Play Books
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...Continue reading
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...Continue reading
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)...Continue reading
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...Continue reading
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...Continue reading
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...Continue reading
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...Continue reading
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,...Continue reading
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...Continue reading
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...Continue reading