DBW E-Book Bestsellers: Seasoned Authors Dominate as Average Price Rises
All four of the new titles to hit this week’s E-book Best-Seller List are by best-selling authors, like Harlan Coben and John Green, whose previous books have found broad appeal among readers. That’s...
View ArticleDBW E-Book Bestsellers: Prices Climb as Hawkins Holds No. 1
The average price of a bestseller inches up to $6.66 from $6.14 last week on the Digital Book World E-book Best-Seller List as higher-priced titles crowd the upper rankings. Five of the top ten cost...
View ArticleSelf-Publishing Boom Boosts Freelance Editing Services
For awhile it probably seemed to some friends and family that Rebecca Faith Heyman had pursued an expensive degree at NYU without any intention of actually using it. She did her undergraduate and...
View ArticleHow Authors Can Promote Themselves Using BlogTalkRadio
The quality of any book is often judged by its introduction. But sometimes, the intensity of promotional rhetoric can be perceived as being inversely proportional to the quality of the art. Authors are...
View ArticleHow to Self-Publish Your Book on a Budget
For many authors, self-publishing is a first option instead of a backup to traditional publishing. Two years ago I broke down the costs to self-publish a high-quality book. The costs covered how much a...
View ArticleDigitalEd: Which Self-Publishing Platform is Best for You?
Title: Which Self-Publishing Platform is Best for You? Instructor: Carla King, founder of Self-Pub Boot Camp Join us for a 1-hour training exploring the major self-publishing companies to learn what...
View Article10 Great Business Tools For Authorpreneurs
The following piece is a guest post and does not necessarily reflect the opinions of this publication. Read more about MediaShift guest posts here. A lot of authors write books to earn a living, and...
View Article6 Tips for Getting Your Self-Published Book Reviewed
The following piece is a guest post and does not necessarily reflect the opinions of this publication. Read more about MediaShift guest posts here. You’ve written your book and now you want to tell the...
View ArticleDigitalEd: Self-Publishing 101: The Basics for Publishing Your Book
Title: Self-Publishing 101: The Basics for Publishing Your Book We’ll walk you through the process of self-publishing a book and teach you how to avoid the pitfalls that first-time authors make. Do...
View ArticleAmazon’s Policies Rile Self-Published Authors
Amazon looms large when it comes to selling traditionally published books: 67 percent of all e-books and 41 percent of all books are sold through the online retailer, according to a study conducted by...
View Article7 Tips for Making Search Engines Work for Marketing Your Book
Google. It’s the black box that no one really knows what goes on in there. However there are few things you can do to optimize your site so that you can rank higher on Google. After all, what’s the...
View ArticleQ&A: How Paid Reviews Work for Indie Authors
Bowker’s most recent analysis of ISBN numbers revealed that 458,564 books were self-published in 2013, an increase of 17 percent over 2012. Occasionally an indie book breaks out of this crowded pack...
View ArticleHow Pressbooks Public Will Help Self-Pub Authors Get E-Books into Libraries
A version of this post first appeared on the SELF-e blog. As reported by The Bookseller in London recently a new partnership, “Pressbooks Public,” will enable SELF-e — the 18-month-old service devised...
View ArticleHow Can We Support Library Innovation?
If you had a few million dollars to invest in libraries, how would you invest it? That’s exactly what the News Challenge team at the Knight Foundation has been thinking about. Last year the Knight...
View ArticleE-Books & Self-Publishing Roundup, December 1, 2015
1. Engaging audiences through Twitter in 15 minutes a day (Kirsten Oliphant / JaneFriedman.com) 2. New study finds low levels of digital library borrowing (Jim Milliot / Publishers Weekly) 3. Still...
View Article7 Developments in Self Publishing in 2015 That Will Help Writers Focus on...
Click here or on the image for the full year in review. Since my first year-end report in 2010, the world of self-publishing has stabilized significantly with vendors steadily improving their features...
View ArticleThe Year in Reading: Print Books, Magazines, Newsletters Hold Their Own In 2015
Click here or on the image for the full year in review. In the 17 years following the introduction of e-book readers in 1998, digital reading has brought about enormous changes in the bookselling,...
View ArticleHow to Put Together a Marketing Plan for Your Book
The first thing authors should do before doing any type of marketing is to put together a marketing plan for their book. This marketing plan will help you decide whether you’ll blog and have a presence...
View ArticleFlirting With New Readers in The Philippines: Wattpad Presents
This piece first appeared on Publishing Perspectives. In The Philippines, Wattpad is known as much more than a huge online reading and writing community. Its arm called “Wattpad Presents” generates...
View Article5 Powerful Ways to Write Content That Connects
The following piece is a guest post and does not necessarily reflect the opinions of this publication. Read more about MediaShift guest posts here. As authors and thought leaders, writing builds our...
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