Amazon Backs Down to Avoid EU Punishment It’s a strange day for book retailing and publishing, as readers and… Mercy Pilkington25 January 2017One comment2 minute read
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… Mercy Pilkington21 January 2017One comment2 minute read
Does Publishing Have a Future without Amazon? With the end of a pretty rough year behind us and the… Mercy Pilkington15 January 20177 comments3 minute read
Who’s Surviving in the Publishing Evolution? Indie Bookstores With all the talk of digital revolutions and self-publishing turning mainstream, there’s… Mercy Pilkington10 January 2017No comments2 minute read
The 2017 State of Self-Publishing It’s been twenty-two years since Jeff Bezos hung out the shingle on… Mercy Pilkington4 January 2017One comment2 minute read
Global Audiobook Trends and Statistics for 2017 Publishers have experienced an utterly deplorable year for e-book sales and most… Michael Kozlowski18 December 201621 comments17 minute read
Amazon Limits Non-Purchase Reviews Piggybacking off of yesterday’s article about Amazon removing “incentivized” reviews–that is, reviews… Mercy Pilkington25 November 2016One comment2 minute read
Amazon Deletes “Incentive”-Based Reviews For years, Amazon has fought back against paid review services. Sites that… Mercy Pilkington24 November 2016One comment2 minute read
Amazon Starts Selling Certified Refurbished Kindle e-Readers Amazon has just unveiled a new Certified Refurbished Store and is selling… Michael Kozlowski15 November 20164 comments1 minute read
Amazon Marketing Services Open to All Authors…Sort Of Amazon has rolled out a new offer for authors whose titles are… Mercy Pilkington15 November 2016One comment3 minute read
Amazon Prime Members Can Now Share Unlimited Photo Storage with 5 People Amazon has announced that they have revised their unlimited photo sharing system… Michael Kozlowski19 October 20163 comments1 minute read
What Is KDP Print? A number of authors have been delighted and/or perplexed to find a… Mercy Pilkington11 October 2016One comment2 minute read
Amazon Attempts to Settle EU Antitrust Investigation When words like Amazon and antitrust get bandied about in the same… Mercy Pilkington6 October 20162 comments2 minute read
P.K. Tyler and the Power of the Indie Author Amazon has announced a fall-themed event sure to get any book lover… Mercy Pilkington5 October 20162 comments2 minute read
eBook Catfishing Scam Netted Over One Million Dollars Amazon has come under fire in public perception for the little tricks… Mercy Pilkington28 September 2016One comment2 minute read
Amazon Guidelines Work to Curb Review Fraud Amazon reviews are both a blessing to authors and the bane of… Mercy Pilkington25 September 20164 comments2 minute read
Amazon Announces All-New: Fire HD 8 Amazon has just announced a new Fire 8 HD tablet that is… Michael Kozlowski8 September 2016One comment1 minute read
Kindle Reading Fund Launches to Provide eBooks Amazon has a long but quiet history of giving back. It has… Mercy Pilkington25 August 2016One comment2 minute read
Amazon Announces Top Books for Fall The publishing world goes through cycles in its yearly calendar. Many literary… Mercy Pilkington23 August 2016One comment2 minute read
Amazon has just put the new Kindle and Kindle Paperwhite on sale Amazon released a new entry level Kindle a few months ago and… Michael Kozlowski17 August 2016One comment1 minute read
