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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.

Authors and Politics Don’t Mix

We’ve probably all been there. We come across a great book by…

Amazon Kindle Write On will be Closing in March

Amazon Kindle Write On is a community where writers share their works…

Kobo Announces 3rd Annual Emerging Writer Prize

Kobo has been orchestrating a writing competition for the past three years…

Amazon Launches Kindle Storyteller Award in the UK

Amazon has just announced a new writing contest in the United Kingdom…

Smashwords Pays Out Royalties and It’s NOT the End of the World

A number of authors opened their email inboxes yesterday to a pleasant…

Pronoun Announces Changes to their Royalty Rates and New Author Pages

Pronoun is a free self-publishing platform and they have just announced that…

Does Publishing Have a Future without Amazon?

With the end of a pretty rough year behind us and the…

Who’s Surviving in the Publishing Evolution? Indie Bookstores

With all the talk of digital revolutions and self-publishing turning mainstream, there’s…

The Industry Finally Acknowledges Indies Are Authors

The gates have finally been thrown open, all are welcome here… Such…

The 2017 State of Self-Publishing

It’s been twenty-two years since Jeff Bezos hung out the shingle on…

All Romance eBooks Closes Its Doors

As if 2016 hasn’t taken enough from us–and as of only moments…

Authors Behaving Badly…This Time on Social Media

If social media has taught us anything, it’s that you probably shouldn’t…

GalleyCat Closes as Industry News and Review Site

In more dark news for the publishing industry, media mainstay GalleyCat has…

Kobo Writing Life Shutdown Notice

Kobo Writing Life manually vets the e-books submitted to their service to…

The End of IndieReader

The publishing revolution has been a long and winding road, but through…

Bowker Releases Findings from Digital Publishing Survey

Bowker and Data Conversion Laboratory have just released their findings from their…