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Category: Publishing
Amazon: Over 1,000 Authors Each Earned Over $100 Grand in Royalties in 2018
Amazon released an advert a report on Tuesday concerning its impact on small and medium businesses. Or as Amazon put it: Amazon today published the 2019 SMB Impact Report...Continue reading
DC Public Library Wants to Add Local Self-Published Authors to Their Catalog
A couple weeks ago I shared a link to a DCist post about the DC Public Library launching a program where local indie authors can submit their books for consideration...Continue reading
AAP Reports Publisher Revenue Up 7.2% in February 2019
AAP just issued the February StatShot Monthly report which includes data for the first two months of 2019. Among the highlights: Overall participating publisher revenue was $754.0 million in February 2019,...Continue reading
Exclusive: Bookbaby to be Spun Off Following Acquisition of Parent Company AVL Digital Group
Here’s an important piece of ebook news from last week that literally no one has noticed yet. The parent company of Bookbaby, AVL Digital Group, announced last Wednesday that...Continue reading
B&N Press Now Offers eBook Coupon Codes
B&N Press continues to add features, lending credence to rumors about an impending sale of the Nook division. I just got an email from B&N, informing me that B&N Press...Continue reading
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 couple weeks. Williams notes...Continue reading
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 million in January 2019,...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 that F+W Media filed...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 Discovery. Throwing humility to...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 would be forgiven for...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 authors, D2D now supports selling...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 to be confused with...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) and also posting them...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 Press team is still...Continue reading
