Google sent out an email today, bringing our attention to their new sales data page. Dear Partner, We’ve redesigned how sales data appears in your Google Play Books Partner Center account. In the...Continue reading
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Google Play Books Now Offers Promo Codes
Google just gave us another reason to set up an author/publisher account in their bookstore: Promo Codes. The ad network giant sent out an email via the Google Play Books...Continue reading
Google Play Books Now Pays a 70% Royalty in 60+ Countries
Back in July Google started testing new royalty terms in the US, Canada, and Australia, and now they are expanding the terms to cover all markets. Google sent out an...Continue reading
Google Books Ngram Viewer Updated – Now Includes Books Published as Late as 2019
I was just reading on a mailing list for editors, Copyediting-L, that Google has updated the Ngram Viewer. Here’s the original announcement from Twitter: The Google Books Ngram Viewer has...Continue reading
Google Play Books is Now Renting Novels Published by Open Road Media
A reader just tipped me to a new section in Play Books that contains around 200 ebooks you can rent (Thanks, Tom!). All the ebooks appear to have been republished...Continue reading
Google is Beta-Testing Custom Shelves, Search Features
Do you like trying the newest features before anyone else? I prefer tools that work, but for those who are more adventurous, Google announced a new Beta Features option for...Continue reading
Google Play Books Ends Discounting in Canada, Australia, and USA – Now Pays a 70% Royalty
Remember a couple months back when I reported that Google was insisting that authors sign up for an account with Play Books even though the author’s ebooks were distributed through...Continue reading
How to Erase Your Google History (Yes, All of it)
Like Facebook, Google makes most of its money from selling ads, and like FB one way Google tries to make the ads more effective is by tracking what you do...Continue reading
Google Play Books is Cutting Out the Middleman, Now Wants a Direct Relationship with Authors and Publishers
Many authors and publishers use a company such as PublishDrive or Draft2Digital to handle their distribution to smaller ebook retailers. They trade a small cut of their revenue for less...Continue reading
Fourteen Amazing Google Docs Hacks to Make Writing Your Next Novel Easier
Google Docs is a popular word-processing tool that lets you access your documents and files from any internet-connected device. I for one have found it to be immensely useful as...Continue reading
How To Write A Book In Google Docs (video)
The above video is the work of Stefanie Newell. It came across my desk courtesy of The Book Designer’s Carnival of the Indies monthly link post, and I thought it...Continue reading
Google Play Books 5.1.9 Adds Audiobook Download Quality Settings, Custom Skip Duration Settings
When Google started selling audiobooks last January, the Play Books Android app made the experience so frustrating that only masochists would try it more than twice. Google has slowly been...Continue reading
Did You Know Google Now Limits Search Results to Only 300 to 400 Links?
Here’s something new I learned at the Computers in Libraries conference this week. Google may claim to have indexed a million or more results for the term you’re searching for,...Continue reading
Google is Sending Out Reminder Emails About Google Plus
Google has been warning users for a couple months now that they plan to shutdown their social network on 2 April, but I guess not everyone has gotten the word...Continue reading
Google Plus is Shutting Down on 2 April
When Google announced last October that they were sunsetting Google+, they didn’t tell us when they were going to turn off the lights. According to the emails Google started sending...Continue reading