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The latest news on self-publishing and digital publishing with an emphasis on indie authors. Learn all about submitting your ebooks for distribution all over the world and the companies that do it.

PW Launches BookLife Self-Publishing Platform

While the company website is a little stark right now, make no…

Smashwords, OverDrive Brings Indie Titles to Libraries

An agreement announced today between ebook distributor and self-publishing platform Smashwords and…

Authors Guild, Authors Alliance Battle Over Speaking for Writers

A new dramatic battle is brewing in the publishing industry, this time…

Publisher Terms: Amazon Behaving Badly, or Business As Usual?

News came out last week that Amazon is butting heads with one…

eBook Pricing: What’s Wrong with Free?

Once publishers began to truly embrace ebooks as a viable business model…

Espresso Book Machine Streamlining a Subset of Self-Publishing

The Espresso Book Machine is a kiosk-style printing press that stood to…

IndieReader Launches First of Its Kind App and eBookstore for Self-Published Works

Self-published authors have a new sales and distribution opportunity, thanks to the…

Gallery Books’ Belles on Wheels Book Tour Crosses US

Gallery Books‘ seven-city Belles on Wheels book tour kicked off on Friday,…

Smashwords Authors Benefit from B&N eBook Pre-Orders

One of the truths we’ve been hearing from forward-thinking publishing industry experts,…

eBook Review: Time’s Echo by Rysa Walker

Verdict: 5 Stars Books like this one make me love digital publishing.…

New Look at How Titles Sell Across Genres

The recent furor caused by Hugh Howey and the team at Author…

Bowker Raised the Price of ISBNs, Should Authors Care?

According to some reports, it just became a whole lot more expensive…

BookBub Secures Funding to Continue Serving Book Discovery

As authors and publishers alike experiment with the sweet spot for ebook…

Scribd Subscription Reading Adds Titles from Wiley

When ebook subscription-based reading was a new concept over four years ago,…

SciFi Genre: Does Hugh Howey Control the Future?

It’s a long-held and possibly undocumented belief that the man who invented…

eBook RevIew: You Show Me Yours by Larry Grobel

Verdict: 5 Stars There’s a fine line between being a well-respected biographer…

PW Interprets Print Sales Data

One of the most common misconceptions surrounding writing and publishing relates to…

Self-Publishing: How Good Is Good Enough?

With both camps still divided on the self-publishing front, the same tired…

ABNA Awards Reach Quarter Finals

The Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards have reached the next stage in the…

Mark Coker’s Indie Author Manifesto

To say that self-publishing has unleashed something profound around the world is…

Blurb Unveils New Streamlined Tools for Authors

For many self-published authors, the various ebook distribution platforms that have made…

Marketing through Book Clubs and Paid Reviewers

Now that the world of self-publishing has become more commonplace and tools…

Overcoming the Scarcity of Attention for Books

One of the more crowded panels at the recent PubSmartCon was the…