Smashwords: Smashwords Introduces New Ebook Gifting Feature: Smashwords yesterday released a new ebook gifting feature. Because Smashwords books are available in multiple ebook formats, our books are… Related articles Smashwords Introduces New Ebook Gifting Feature (smashwords.com) On Smashwords and Amazon (joleenenaylor.wordpress.com) How to Self-Publish an Ebook with Smashwords: 31 Authors Share Their Tips and Tricks […]
It’s been a very fruitful year at The Independent Publishing Magazine, and for me personally with the publication of The Memory of Trees. I’d like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for all their support, input, comments, debate and friendship over the past twelve months. The publishing world continues to change and develop, and […]
NOTE: This company is closed as of March, 2016 and in liquidation. Original Writing is an Irish self-publishing service and was founded in 2006. Based in Smithfield, Dublin, the company has become one of Ireland’s most popular choices for authors looking for self-publishing packages. A couple of years ago, Garreth Bonner, Sales and Marketing Manager with […]
Image via Wikipedia It’s always a very heartening experience for me to hear or meet self-published authors gathered in one place at a particular time, whether that space is face to face, or listening to the experiences of so many Irish self-published authors on Tuesday afternoon on Joe Duffy’s national Livelineprogramme on RTE. You can […]
InfoTrends InfoBlog »On Demand Book Printing at Airports?: “The last couple of months have seen a slew of new placements for Xerox and On Demand Book’s Espresso Book Machine (EBM). Installations have been growing rapidly, with four installs (Darien Library in Connecticut, Tattered Cover Book Store in Colorado, Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington D.C., […]
10 Ways Book Publishers Are Fighting Back Against piracy! Against the digital encroach! Against illiteracy! Against each other! Publishing, that cheeky teaser of mind, body, and soul, enjoys the same level of excitement and drama as other fields, if not more. As with every industry out there, it plays host to a crazy ensemble cast […]
Late last week the Women in Publishing UK Awards were held at the Savoy Tup Function Room in London. The two deserving recipients were Suzanne Collier of Bookcareers.com, winning the Pandora Award, and Leila Dewji of Acorn Independent Press, who won the New Venture Award. Speaking to The Bookseller last week, Collier said: “Winning the […]
Image by Getty Images via @daylife Fifty things I’ve learned about the literary life | Books | The Observer: “From time to time, this column is asked for advice, sometimes obsessively, about decoding the many mysteries of “the world of books”. There’s a widespread view, held by those looking from the outside, that there must […]
It’s not too often when self-publishing and, in particular, self-published books, get a prime time radio spot and an entire programme dedicated to this area of publishing. For the second year RTE Radio‘s flagship afternoon Liveline show, presented by Joe Duffy, will focus on self-published books and authors. This is probably about as open an invitation any […]
Below is the text of the internal ‘leaked’ document as published by Digital Book World on December 6th. Let’s deal with the first obvious points. This is not a document intended only for the eyes of Hachette Book Group staff and management, and it is certainly not a complete document. The ‘audience’ it addresses is […]
