Becoming an ‘Amazon Bestseller’ can be surprisingly simple
How easy is it to have an Amazon bestseller? Easier than you might think. On The Observer, publicist Brent Underwood details his adventure creating an Amazon bestselling book from scratch, as...
Dropbox scans user-uploaded files for child porn—but does it scan for copyrighted e-books?
Ars Technica has a feature article about a 19-year-old child-porn collector who was detected and turned in by Dropbox and then stopped by a brave man at a chess club meeting...
Another Kindle Unlimited scam you wish wasn’t happening
Self-publishing guru David Gaughran has been very pro-active in tracking down opportunists and outright cheats who game Amazon's Kindle Unlimited payment-per-page-view system, and the entire Kindle/Kindle Store ecosystem. He's also been...
A brief guide to using Sigil
For book lovers, it's an age of plenty. Thanks to e-books and ubiquitous computers, not to mention other devices, millions of titles are available cheaply or free, often as easily as...
How to edit ePub files manually: A handy overview
Here's a handy overview of the basics of manually editing ePub, the industry standard format for e-books---courtesy of Kotobee.
Yes, sometimes Calibre, Scrivener and the like are enough for creating e-books, especially for...
Indie publishers, the B-movie A-list
A long and fascinating article by Adam Cesare in Cemetery Dance, makes the case that the new generation of indie publishers and self-publishers are the new B-movies of literature. And he produces...
How do we value e-books?
We know how much e-books cost. But what is their actual value? This is a question pondered in this post by writer and blogger Max Florschutz.
Florschutz is puzzled by the way...
Financial havoc in the used book market: Good news for e-book publishers?
I've just made my yearly pilgrimage to my city's largest used bookstore.
For years I have been both buying and selling there, and the latest result suggests this may be my last trip there...
Writing for the underclass: Is Amazon the great enabler?
Writer and writing teacher Lorraine Berry has shared an article on LitHub with the telling title "How the Literary Class System is Impoverishing Literature." She details the financial and other barriers that...
Writers, publishers, agents: Fix your Amazon book links
Courtesy of dark fiction writer Gwendolyn Kiste, here's a potentially quite important tip for all writers, but especially self-published ones, selling through Amazon. Without it, Amazon might pull reviews of your...
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A sad tale of Amazon monetization: eReaderIQ and the affiliate program
Courtesy of the Kboards, a worrying item about struggling e-book sites and their ability to monetize engagement with Amazon - or not - has...
