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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.

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…

BookBaby Adds New Sales Outlet, Faster Royalty Payments

There’s no shortage of companies willing to take an author’s manuscript and…

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…