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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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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Courtesy of the Kboards, a worrying item about struggling e-book sites and their ability to monetize engagement with Amazon - or not - has...

TeleRead.com is now a static archival site, but we're very much alive at TeleRead.org. Big thanks to Nate Hoffelder of The-Digital-Reader.com, who teamed up on the preservation project with ReclaimHosting.com.