Five ABNA Category Winners Annouced The end is almost near for this year’s Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards,… Mercy Pilkington8 July 2014One comment2 minute read
Digital Textbooks Get Added Accessibility Support through Vital Source Ingram Content Group’s solutions division Vital Source Technologies, Inc., presented a new… Mercy Pilkington8 July 2014No comments2 minute read
Smashwords’ Survey Indicates Shifting Trends in eBook Pricing, Sales Self-publishing and ebook distribution platform Smashwords announced this week the results of… Mercy Pilkington8 July 2014No comments2 minute read
Hugh Howey on Writers’ Unions: Who Really Speaks for Authors? There are a few groups out there that claim to be the… Mercy Pilkington7 July 20145 comments3 minute read
MyPublishingAssistant Lets Authors Streamline Blog-to-Book, eBooks There are a wide variety of tools available on the market that… Mercy Pilkington7 July 2014One comment2 minute read
Nook Press Blog Offers Support to Indie Authors There’s a lot of talk about Amazon and what it has done… Mercy Pilkington6 July 20142 comments2 minute read
eBook Review: The Silkworm by Robert Gilbraith Verdict: 5 Stars Rowling/Gilbraith has done it again, and this one may… Mercy Pilkington6 July 2014No comments2 minute read
Big Five Back in Court over eBook Pricing When the dust finally settled from the Department of Justice lawsuit against… Mercy Pilkington6 July 2014One comment2 minute read
HM Ward on Literary Agents and the Indie Author Industry Even though the “indie author revolution” and self-publishing as a valid form… Mercy Pilkington5 July 2014One comment3 minute read
Adobe Digital Editions Rolls Out Private Beta for ePUB3 For fans of both Adobe Digital Editions ebook reading platform and the… Mercy Pilkington5 July 2014One comment2 minute read
Light Up Your Fourth with Amazon’s Best Books of July As the Independence Day festivities carry over for many people due to… Mercy Pilkington5 July 2014One comment2 minute read
Indie Author Tools to Self-Publish Audiobooks Good e-Reader published an interview with ACX, Amazon’s self-publishing platform for audiobooks,… Mercy Pilkington4 July 2014One comment3 minute read
Authors Rally Behind Amazon in Publisher Dispute Despite the letter circulated by some well-known authors that urged Amazon to… Mercy Pilkington3 July 20142 comments3 minute read
Germany’s Bertelsmann to Close Bookselling Division In what is possibly the slowest death in the publishing industry, German… Mercy Pilkington3 July 20142 comments2 minute read
Walter Dean Myers: The Loss of a Book Hero The literary world is a little darker this week after the passing… Mercy Pilkington3 July 2014One comment2 minute read
Debunking Amazon’s 70% Royalty for Indie Authors and Publishers With news this week that Amazon has added whole new international markets… Mercy Pilkington3 July 2014One comment3 minute read
No News Is Still News for Amazon, Hachette Dispute A headline in the Wall Street Journal today promised that a senior… Mercy Pilkington2 July 2014One comment2 minute read
The End for World Book Night In a heartfelt and obviously saddened letter today, the organizers behind World… Mercy Pilkington2 July 20142 comments2 minute read
Washington Post: What Would Bezos Do? It’s no secret that newspapers as a whole are on the decline.… Mercy Pilkington1 July 2014One comment2 minute read
US Publishers Earn More through Online Sales than Physical Stores In a report from two entities that watch the publishing industry in… Mercy Pilkington30 June 2014One comment2 minute read
Smashwords Launches Summer Author Promotion Just in time for summer travel, Smashwords is offering up an author… Mercy Pilkington30 June 201415 comments2 minute read
