Publishing

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 ...]

Guest Post: What Tech Startups Can Teach Authors About Marketing

28 April, 2018 // 2 Comments

by Evan Gow In the world of Startups, Dave McClure is a boss. He’s invested in 5 unicorns (a moniker for startups worth over a billion dollars), something very few people have done. Besides being [Read More ...]

Thirty Minutes a Day is All It Takes to Automate Your Social Media Activity, But I Don’t Recommend it

23 April, 2018 // 6 Comments

As I am sure you know, there aren't enough hours in the day to get all your work done. This is why we are always looking for new ways to automate tasks. Sometimes, however, the automation is [Read More ...]

Tech Tools for Authors #4: Social Media

11 April, 2018 // 2 Comments

Authors have to juggle a lot of balls in today's book industry. Not only do they have to write that next book, they also have to market it, balance the ledgers, woo their fans on social media, do [Read More ...]

“New” J R R Tolkien Novel, “The Fall of Gondolin”, Is Coming Later This Year

10 April, 2018 // 5 Comments

Terry Pratchett may have avoided ghouls robbing his literary estate after his death, but other authors were nearly as lucky. Some authors (for example, Harper Lee) were still alive when the ghouls [Read More ...]

AAP Reports Trade Revenues Up 1% Through November 2017

4 April, 2018 // 2 Comments

The Association of American Publishers reported on Wednesday that publisher revenues fell 5.5% in the month of November while staying up for the year. Revenues from the YA segment were up 3% through [Read More ...]

Amazon Has Shadow-Banned Romance Titles from the Kindle Store

29 March, 2018 // 105 Comments

The ebook market owes its existence to the romance genre. eBooks gave authors a chance to sell the stories readers wanted to buy rather than the stories the gatekeepers wanted to publish, and without [Read More ...]

Smashwords Adds Audiobook Distribution via Findaway Voice

21 March, 2018 // 0 Comments

Smashwords has partnered with audiobook distributor Findaway to help authors turn their ebooks into audiobooks via Findaway's ACX competitor, Findaway Voices. This announcement comes about 9 months [Read More ...]

Updated: Simon & Schuster’s Vanity Press Launches Writing Contest to Exploit More Authors

15 March, 2018 // 4 Comments

Update: This post was originally published in November 2017, and was updated in March 2018 to reflect S&S's ongoing exploitation of authors. Of all the major publishers, Simon & Schuster is [Read More ...]

UK’s Book Industry Communication Criticizes Misuse of Metadata Fields for Marketing

12 March, 2018 // 6 Comments

Misusing a book's metadata is a well-known blackhat marketing technique. Amazon knows this, which is why for a decade now they have enforced a strict list of rules on what publishers and authors [Read More ...]

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