Porter Anderson vs. J.A. Konrath on e-book pricing
It can be entertaining to watch a good fight sometimes. That’s the case concerning a recent post by Porter Anderson discussing the question of publisher pricing on e-books, and a response...
Amazon pays up! My first $100+ as a self-publisher
Amazon is moving toward electronic funds transfer payments (EFT) for all Kindle authors, as noted earlier. I set up my bank accounts just last week. But Amazon has already shared some glad tidings---word of my...
How do you design a good book cover? Just try it
One of the tricky aspects of self-publishing a book is coming up with the right cover for it. You can use a stock or public domain photo for the picture, or...
Kindle Direct Publishing writers to get electronic-only payments from Amazon
Amazon will begin an all-electronic payment system for Kindle Direct Publishing writers as of September.
Word came in a notice I received this week.
KDP authors are being asked to update their information to include bank...
Amazon 1-star review farming on Craigslist: How safe is your book?
Here's a particularly nasty abuse of the Amazon review system that brilliant science fiction and thriller writer and all-round superior human being Nick Mamatas tipped me off to. Some nice person...
Amazon keeps sticking its thumb in the Kindle Unlimited fraud dike
Here comes the Tragedy of the Commons again.
The Observer has a report on an ongoing Kindle Unlimited scam that we’ve touched upon briefly when Amazon started pulling e-books with tables of...
David Gaughran Twitter rant fingers Big Publishing-backed book fair scams
Self-publishing savant and scourge of seamy publishing practices David Gaughran has launched a broadside on Twitter against publisher and book fair support of vanity press and promotional scams targeting naive self-publishing...
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...
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...
Will new discounted Kobo Writing Life services change your writing life?
Kobo's midweek announcement of a package of new add-ons and third-party service providers to support its Kobo Writing Life "one-stop, do-it-yourself publishing portal" may have been a little ill-timed with the...