[Press Release] via Business Wire Blurb, the independent publishing platform, historically known for highly illustrated print and ebooks, today announced support for “reflowable” fiction/non-fiction titles for Amazon’s Kindle platform, as well as the ability for Blurb authors to sell these books in Amazon’s Kindle store. In addition to support for Kindle ebooks, Blurb has also […]
Amazon has made its first formal statement on the current dispute with big-five publisher Hachette. The statement was posted to its Kindle Forum Discussions yesterday. Before we take a look at that Amazon statement, you might be asking a very fair and obvious question: What’s all this nonsense about? I just want to read great […]
Publishers Weekly, the US trade magazine for the publishing industry, will launch BookLife—a new website resource offering self-publishing authors ‘a number of services’—at Book Expo America next week. The BookLife website will go live on May 29th and currently has the tagline: ‘Support for INDIE AUTHORS from Publishers Weekly’. From PW today: BookLife’s editorial will focus on […]
Douglas Burcham reports from a recent Self-Publishing Experience Day, which included a visit to CPI’s print and book manufacturing plant. On returning home from Chippenham last Wednesday I stopped at the WH Smiths kiosk at Reading station and felt pleased my first fiction best seller Gemini One had reached number two after my interviews on BBC and […]
This is the second part of Chris Thomas’ guest post. You can read the first part here. Library and Copyright Registration Before doing any actual selling you have to send a copy of the book to the British Library (US copyright and LCCN) and another to each of the five copyright libraries. As a publisher of […]
The following is a snapshot of how self-publishing services have become a part of the greater publishing industry over the past five years, complete with article and infographic. Feel free to link to the article and download the graphic. CLICK TO ENLARGE DOWNLOAD INFOGRAPHIC A little over five years ago the suggestion that any large, trade publishing house—let alone even one […]
All over the world people who think they’ve got something interesting to say are busy scribbling with whatever materials they have to hand, be it on paper, making marks in the sand with a stick, chalk on slate or chiselling the letters on a slab of rock. All such methods have been used at one […]
The Alliance of Independent Authors talks to Robin Cutler and Andy Bromley of Ingram about publishing platform IngramSpark. The Independent Publishing Magazine | TIPM Media
There are many costs assigned to self-publishing a book, everything from paying an editor, cover designer, book formatter, conversion service fees for digital editions and maybe even marketing and public relations specialists. You may choose to opt for a one-stop-shop publishing service and pay a single fee for your book’s publication. Alternatively, you may go […]
The class action lawsuit against Author Solutions Inc. taken by three authors will not reached full trial until well into 2015. In April, Judge Denise Cote, presiding over the class action lawsuit in the Southern District Court of New York, dismissed all actions against co-defendant Penguin Group. The case was first filed in April 2013 by […]
