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Amazon Changes Payment Terms for German Distributors

14 August, 2018 // 2 Comments

Amazon has quietly changed the terms offered to several German ebook distributors, bringing them into line with most other ebook distributors. SelfPublisherBibel.de reports that ebooks distributed [Read More ...]

Where to Go for Author Services without CreateSpace

7 August, 2018 // 2 Comments

by Esther Park of Kirkus Reviews In late November of 2016, the world of independent publishing was surprised by the news that Amazon had announced plans to close its CreateSpace fulfillment center in [Read More ...]

How to Upload a PDF to the Kindle Store, and Sell It

3 August, 2018 // 2 Comments

In my morning coffee link post this morning I included a post on The Book Designer where a so-called "expert" made various claims about PDFs, including that PDFs aren't ebooks and that PDFs "can’t [Read More ...]

A Kindle Unlimited Content Mill Has Been put up for Sale – Got $2.5 Million?

2 August, 2018 // 3 Comments

How would you like to be the next Hardy Boys? A friend has brought my attention to a new listing on the Empire Flippers business marketplace (thanks, Isobel!). It seems one of the content mills [Read More ...]

Nook Press Opens Its Doors to Authors in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand

26 July, 2018 // 0 Comments

Barnes & Noble's publisher portal sent an email yesterday to authors announcing that it wasn't dead - in fact, it even started accepting authors from outside the US. From KBoards: Dear Publisher, [Read More ...]

Want a Sword, Get Well Card, or Coffee Mug With That Book?

16 July, 2018 // 0 Comments

Earlier today The Book Designer published a post where I argue that authors should invest in swag to give away or sell to their fans. This is still be a rather controversial idea in the indie author [Read More ...]

Five Ways Authors Can Use Alexa

12 July, 2018 // 5 Comments

Amazon has been shipping the Echo smart speakers for several years now, but the tech is still new to some of us. For example, I just got my first Echo, an Echo Dot. I'm still finding out what it can [Read More ...]

Amazon Updates KDP Rules to Discourage Book-Stuffing

12 July, 2018 // 3 Comments

Amazon has finally taken steps to squash the cheating in Kindle Unlimited once and for all. They just updated the KDP content guidelines with new rules about compilations, collections, and other [Read More ...]

Book Funnel Launches Download Codes

10 July, 2018 // 1 Comment

Book fairs and trade shows are a couple of the only times that print books have a clear advantage over ebooks. It's really hard to give away or sell ebooks to the person standing in front of you [Read More ...]

Five Tools for Better World-Building For Your Next Book

9 July, 2018 // 1 Comment

When it comes to world-building, some authors just make up a world as they write the story, while others take the time to invent cultural rules defining gremlin marriages and divorces. No matter [Read More ...]

Kobo: Keep Your Book Description Shorter Than 4,000 Characters Or It Will Be Excluded From Walmart.com

7 July, 2018 // 2 Comments

I am currently following a discussion over on KBoards about Kobo and Walmart, and one author just dropped a useful nugget of information that authors might find useful. Kobo is telling authors who [Read More ...]

How to Lease a Virtual Mac Online to Upload eBooks to iBooks

1 July, 2018 // 12 Comments

Apple is notorious for the ridiculously pointless rule that if you want to sell ebooks on their platform, you have to use their app and their hardware to do so (or go through an aggregator). While [Read More ...]

Edie Bryant, Hayden Hunt, and How to Turn One Novel Into Two By Changing the Pronouns

27 June, 2018 // 12 Comments

Authors are always trying to get more books written faster. It's not just that more titles equals more sales, but also that Amazon's algorithms reward authors who publish the most often. That's why [Read More ...]

Authors, Don’t Be Taken in by the Blockchain/Bitcoin Hype

4 June, 2018 // 7 Comments

If you have been following tech news then you've probably heard the term blockchain mentioned more than once. This word is rarely explained in non-technical terms, but it is thrown around a lot by [Read More ...]

Grow Your Author Mailing List with These 7 Essential Tools

3 June, 2018 // 0 Comments

You've heard over and over that the best way to promote your author career is a robust mailing list. This is true no matter the product, the business model, or the industry. A mailing list is [Read More ...]

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