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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.

Wattpad Secures $51M in New Funding

Whether you’re a reader or a writer, if you’re not on Wattpad,…

The Gatekeeper Is Back, Authors…

In the era of ebooks and at-the-touch-of-a-button access to hundreds of millions…

Smashwords Was NOT Hacked…But Change Your Password

Self-publishing platform recently sent out an announcement to its authors containing the…

Smashwords Unveils Publishing Predictions for 2018

Smashwords’ CEO and founder Mark Coker has once again unveiled his annual…

Your 2018 Writing Resolutions

For a variety of political and societal reasons, authors have been coming…

Kindle Create Available to All Authors

Back in the spring, Amazon launched a beta test of a new…

Authors Asked, Goodreads Listened: Kindle eBook Giveaways Are Here

Indie authors have fought for years to be considered “real authors” by…

Here is the New Scam that Targets Authors and eBooks

Millions of authors and publishers depend on Amazon for their physical and…

New eBook Platform Solves Promo Problems

As reading consumers, we’ve gone from having no digital content to have…

Amazon Announces Writing Grant

There’s little doubt that Amazon has made a significant amount of money…

Turns Out Piracy ISN’T Good for Authors…Or Readers

In what has to be the winner of the Captain Obvious Award,…

It’s Not Too Late to NaNo

If you’re connected to any writers on social media, your timelines are…

It’s NaNo Time Again…

Ordinary folks may be stringing a few more fake cobwebs around the…

CreateSpace Is Closing Its Online Bookstore

Amazon owns CreateSpace, the print-on-demand solution that allows indie authors to produce…

New Bowker Study Finds Increasing Growth in SelfPub ISBNs

If there was still doubt in anyone’s mind that self-publishing is not…

Amazon is celebrating indie authors this October

During October, Amazon will be celebrating great writing self-published via Kindle Direct…