Self-publishing makes it easy to get your words out there – the tricky part is ensuring that your work gets read. That requires self-promotion. Three authors share their tips on how best to accomplish this in an ever-shifting landscape...
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...
Britain’s Booksellers Association has teamed up with the Society of Authors to produce a free guide for UK indie authors showing them how to get their books into bricks & mortar bookstores...
Jack Preston King proposes that the first step in the reader-reconditioning process is for indie authors to agree among themselves to hold to a sane eBook pricing model for independently published work...
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...
Don't for one second think all you have to do is to keep writing. You have to treat your writing as a business. Take a course. Read up. And then you keep writing, yes, but also keep producing, keep learning, keep growing, keep up. Good advice from Brooke Warner...
If prices rise, authors with royalty deals don’t get paid more for e-books with higher prices. They make less as sales fall. Publishers, it seems from the data, are making less, as well. So, why are the big guys still raising e-book prices?...
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