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Discount ebook deals mailing list BookBub finally adds audiobooks. Launches...
One of the biggest gripes about Amazon’s ACX, the self-publishing arm of Audible and very much the go to place for indie authors to distribute their audiobooks, is that Amazon calls the shots on...
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Has Data Guy’s Author Earnings Report finally been laid to rest?
It’s been well over a year since the last Author Earnings Report was released by Data Guy, the data analyst who preferred to keep how own identity hidden while making controversial claims about ebook...
View ArticleStreetLib partners with Paris-based IP platform Nakiri to offer authors and...
Italy-based digital books distributor and publishing facilitator StreetLib has partnered with Paris-based IP platform Nakiri to offer authors and publishers deals in the global Francophone markets Full...
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US-based self-publishing aggregator PublishDrive changes payment model for...
Originating from Hungary, now based in the US, PublishDrive is the youngest of the new breed of aggregators born of the digital self-publishing revolution, offering a pay-as-you-sell service for...
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Self-published authors can now upload their audiobooks direct to Kobo via...
It wasn’t so long ago that if you were a self-publisher and wanted to get some of the audiobook action the only real choice was Amazon-owned Audible’s ACX, which allows indie authors in a handful of...
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Findaway adds BajaLibros, Leamos, Bidi and Fuuze as audiobook distribution...
It wasn’t so long ago that independent authors who wanted to get a piece of the audiobook action turned to Amazon’s ACX. In part because it was pretty much the only operator that would take...
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StreetLib & TNPS launch free bi-weekly B2B newsletter for self-published authors
StreetLib is the publisher behind The New Publishing Standard. While TNPS is not a StreetLib promotional vehicle, StreetLib publishing news is as much publishing news as any other. As ever when...
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Publish MENA #6 is out. The latest news and insights into Arab publishing
Issue #6 of the bi-weekly StreetLib-TNPS B2B newsletter Publish MENA is hitting subscriber inboxes about now. This edition was due out last Thursday, but we held it over because so many industry...
View ArticleAmazon’s self-publishing arm KDP Print now offers POD in Canada, but POD for...
Print-on-demand (POD) is a great resource for publishers of all sizes, but it’s only as good as its nearest localized print and distribution partner. While a POD book can, in theory, be sent anywhere...
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Draft2Digital now lets indie authors add audiobook links to the Universal...
Three self-publishing stories in a row, just as the StreetLib-TNPS newsletter for self-publishers is about to go live tomorrow? Coincidence is a strange beast. The fact is these news items have...
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Publish Global, the StreetLib-TNPS B2B newsletter for self-publishers, is...
The first issue of the new B2B newsletter for self-publishers, Publish Global – serious about self-publishing, has been arriving in subscriber inboxes, and while some of the contents will be familiar...
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Publishers Weekly’s BookLife launches paid reviews for self-publishing authors
If you are a self-published author and don’t mind waiting 4-6 weeks, and handing over some cash, you can now get a professionally written public-facing review from the US-based trade journal...
View ArticleAmazon Ads now available to KDP authors in 6 countries
When Amazon first launched on-site advertising for authors it was limited to those in the US. Eventually that was rolled out to the UK, and very recently to Germany. And now it seems also to Italy,...
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IngramSpark introduces new quality rules for self-published authors, but many...
Intent on preserving its reputation for quality, IngramSpark, the print-on-demand arm of Ingram that targets self-published authors, sent out notice today that new rules would come into play in April...
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Publishers Weekly’s BookLife extends submissions deadline for its US Selfies...
Midnight February 29 was to have been the deadline for submissions to the first Selfies Awards for self-published authors, but in an email today BookLife tell us the deadline has at the last minute...
View ArticlePublishDrive the first US-based aggregator to offer ebooks, audiobook and POD...
This past week the indie-friendly aggregator PublishDrive became the first in the US to offer distribution across ebook, audiobook and POD formats. Said PublishDrive CEO Kinga Jentetics, As pioneers...
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The latest edition of Publish Global, the StreetLib-TNPS newsletter for indie...
As a pandemic sweeps the world, publishing limps into the new decade. Whatever high hopes and ambitions we may have had for publishing in the new decade have been mostly turned upside down by a crisis...
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The StreetLib-TNPS global-perspectives newsletter for serious...
The free StreetLib-TNPS B2B global-perspectives newsletter for the serious self-publisher with global ambitions is hitting inboxes about now. A collation of global publishing news with ramifications...
View ArticleSweden’s self-publishing platform Type & Tell to close Sept. 30 as Amazon...
A confirmed publisher deal indicates books will be part of the imminent Amazon Sweden launch, but the jury is still out on whether Kindle will be at the party. It’s been almost six years since Amazon...
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Ten years after self-publishing took off in the UK, The Bookseller still...
The Bookseller 2012: “For years the publishing industry has ignored self-publishing. The authors themselves have been pilloried and left to languish on the slush-pile. It’s little wonder so many of...
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