Amy Rosen looks at how entrepreneurs are using ebooks to promote their services and vice versa. Read more at The Globe and Mail...
David Wogahn lists the potential benefits to authors of creating their own self-publishing imprint in terms of the impact on sales success. Though it is not always necessary, or even desirable, it is a decision that once made, cannot be changed without re-publishing your book...
Writing is hard and you had better like doing it because it’s going to take a lot of words before you see much in the way of earnings, says Lee Purcell at ePublish Yourself!...
Holly Jones on the options available to new (and established) writers outside of mainstream publishing...
Writer's Relief considers the pros and cons of self-publishing on the Wattpad online publishing (and social media) platform...
The process of publishing your own book can be both very simple and very complex. The actual mechanics of publishing an ebook, or even a print book, have become relatively easy, especially if you give yourself to the Amazon ecosystem...
Scams are rife, particularly when some authors can rake in thousands each month from the Kindle Unlimited program – but high-profile victims of plagiarism warn ‘day of reckoning is coming’...
Too many people are focused on the fact they can publish a book rather than wonder if they even should; authors need to follow through by giving their book the "royal" treatment if they choose to self-publish (good editing is essential) and focusing on marketing it once it's published...
There's room for all authors to be described as 'indie', argues Brooke Warner: "all authors who care about their books put their own money behind it, and all of us have read terrible traditionally published books alongside our best-loved books. And plenty of self-published authors are writing and publishing well-designed, gorgeously written, and award-winning books."...
In the 21st century the zero-law of publishing will be to understand mobile. Because without expert understanding of it, we may not be able to create the new audiences. That’s true for booksellers, for publishers, for writers, says Stephen Page, CEO of Faber & Faber...