Publishing

Bonnier to Launch Type & Tell Services Provider in the UK

8 March, 2017 // 0 Comments

Authors have many ways to bring their books to market. On the one end of the spectrum are distributors like Draft2Digital which have no upfront charge but collect a cut of incoming royalties. At the [Read More ...]

HarperCollins Vows to Fight Back in Canadian eBook Price-Fixing Case

7 March, 2017 // 1 Comment

HarperCollins was the only one of four major Canadian trade publishers to sit out the negotiated settlement with the Canadian Competition Bureau in January. This week it announced that it would [Read More ...]

AAP: Trade Sales Up, eBook Sales Down Through September 2016

24 February, 2017 // 1 Comment

The Association of American Publishers reported on Friday that trade publishing revenues rose a fraction of a percent in the first three quarters of 2016, to $4.99 billion. At the same time, ebook [Read More ...]

Draft2Digital is Adding Kobo Plus as a Distribution Option, But Not Smashwords

22 February, 2017 // 5 Comments

Kobo's new subscription ebook service is currently available only in the low countries, and authors can only put their work into it via Kobo Writing Life. That is quite limited, but I can now report [Read More ...]

Authors Can Learn a Lesson from the YouTubers Who Keep Imploding

22 February, 2017 // 8 Comments

Inspired by the recent self-destruction of Youtuber PewDiePie, Polygon published a long editorial yesterday which looked at why Youtube stars keep imploding. According to the insider who wrote the [Read More ...]

Milo Yiannopoulos Loses Book Deal Over Pro-Pedophilia Position

20 February, 2017 // 45 Comments

Simon and Schuster was fine with signing a $250,000 book deal with Milo Yiannopoulos even though he is a transphobic, misogynistic, anti-semitic troll who likes to hurt people. But once everyone [Read More ...]

On Hiring ‘Sensitivity Readers’ to Flag Potentially Offensive Content

18 February, 2017 // 20 Comments

The Chicago Tribune published an article earlier this week which, ironically enough, might have benefited from exactly the assistance described in the article. Before a book is published and [Read More ...]

Audiobook Sales Up at HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Hachette

16 February, 2017 // 1 Comment

Three different trade publishers released their financial reports in the past week, and while the ebook news ranged from bad to nonexistent, the reports of audiobook sales were generally positive. [Read More ...]

Samhain Publishing to Close on 28 February 2017

9 February, 2017 // 15 Comments

Romance publisher Samhain Publishing has just told its customers that it is shutting down at the end of the month. Greetings, Samhain Readers. It's with a heavy heart that we announce Samhain [Read More ...]

Attention, Authors: SFF.net is Shutting Down on 31 March

9 February, 2017 // 2 Comments

Launched twenty years ago, SFF.net is one of the oldest science fiction and fantasy communities as well as the home of many author websites. And in two short months, it is all going away. Jeffry [Read More ...]

Pronoun One-Ups CreateSpace, Now Lets Authors Control Their ISBNs

8 February, 2017 // 2 Comments

When it comes to recruiting authors away from the competition by offering competitive terms, ebook distributor Pronoun doesn't think small. Last month it increased its income split from a [Read More ...]

Draft2Digital Drops Minimum Payment for PayPal & US Direct Deposits

7 February, 2017 // 9 Comments

eBook distributor Draft2Digital sent its clients an email this morning with the news that it now offers automatic monthly royalty payments: We are excited and proud to announce that there will no [Read More ...]

Books-a-Million Outsourced Its Self-Pub Unit to an Iffy Services Company

6 February, 2017 // 2 Comments

When Books-a-Million launched its self-pub division, BAM Publishing, in 2015, it outsourced the actual work to FastPencil, a respectable publishing services company. FatPencil was still the tech [Read More ...]

Exact Editions Launches Single Publisher Subscription Plans

26 January, 2017 // 1 Comment

Exact Editions has developed a platform where publishers can bundle their content and sell access to consumers through an annual subscription. As founder Adam Hodgkin explained on Medium, the first [Read More ...]

AAP Reports Publisher Print Sales Up, eBook Sales Down 18.9% Through August 2016

25 January, 2017 // 3 Comments

In a result which was far from expected, the latest monthly publisher revenue report from the Association of American Publishers showed a continued decline in ebook revenue and a simultaneous slight [Read More ...]

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Anthony Pero on Kindle Unlimited Funding Pool Grew in July 2017 as the Per-Page Rate DroppedI'm not sure it is more relevant. It might be equally relevant.
Allen F on Kindle Unlimited Funding Pool Grew in July 2017 as the Per-Page Rate DroppedThose that stay will thank those promising to leave. No horse in this race, but it's fun to watch.
Marion Gropen on Kindle Unlimited Funding Pool Grew in July 2017 as the Per-Page Rate DroppedDo you have a list of the per-page rates, historically. Isn't that more relevant than the total pool?
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BDR on Self-Centered Bookseller Demands Amazon Subsidize Indie BookstoresDo you suppose that buggy whip sellers demanded compensation from Henry Ford?