Smashwords, Wattpad See Increase in Use In the past year, open reading platform and forum Wattpad saw an… Mercy Pilkington6 January 2014One comment2 minute read
Smashwords’ Predictions for Publishing in 2014 This time of year brings with it a host of predictions from… Mercy Pilkington31 December 2013One comment2 minute read
What’s Up with Amazon Royalties Coming Down? The debate over the most recent accusations about how Amazon is destroying… Mercy Pilkington27 December 2013One comment2 minute read
Too Much Choice Can Impede eBook Sales A post by Shannon of the DuoLit team from earlier this year… Mercy Pilkington22 December 2013One comment2 minute read
New Book Discovery Engine Novelry Aids Searchability One of the key issues plaguing an admittedly glutted ebook market is… Mercy Pilkington19 December 2013One comment2 minute read
Smashwords Unveils New Website, New Features It’s a testament to the company model that self-publishing platform and ebook… Mercy Pilkington18 December 2013One comment2 minute read
Kindle Worlds Releases Work by Howey Based on Slaughterhouse Five When Amazon Publishing announced the creation of its fan fiction publishing site… Mercy Pilkington17 December 2013One comment2 minute read
Book Riot Readers Select Their Favorite Books of 2013 Book Riot, a site for all things book love, polled its users… Mercy Pilkington13 December 2013No comments2 minute read
FanFiction Gets a Boost from New Publisher’s Kickstarter Campaign One of the more polarizing arguments in the publishing industry is the… Mercy Pilkington13 December 2013One comment2 minute read
Wattpad Contest Winners Receive Publishing Contracts with Harlequin Story posting social media site Wattpad has garnered a tremendous following in… Mercy Pilkington11 December 2013One comment2 minute read
Self-Published Bestsellers Available for Holiday Reading Just in time for the holidays, GalleyCat has released its weekly bestseller… Mercy Pilkington27 November 2013One comment2 minute read
Amazon Cracks Down on Bogus Keywords A growing number of self-published authors are receiving ominous emails from ebook… Mercy Pilkington27 November 20132 comments2 minute read
Bowker: Smashwords Is Top Producer of eBooks Self-publishing and distribution platform Smashwords released the news that Bowker has declared… Mercy Pilkington12 November 2013One comment2 minute read
Two New Features for CreateSpace Authors CreateSpace, the print-on-demand self-publishing platform owned by Amazon, announced two exciting new… Mercy Pilkington12 November 2013One comment2 minute read
eBook Review: After Action by Dan Sheehan Verdict: 5 Stars There is no shortage of reads–good, bad, and ugly–that… Mercy Pilkington10 November 2013One comment2 minute read
Happy Birthday, Wattpad: Celebrating with the Launch of Wattpad Stories The world’s largest online community for connecting authors and readers in genuine… Mercy Pilkington5 November 2013One comment2 minute read
Patti Davis, Self-Pub Authors More Likely to Continue on their Own Information on specific sales data is about e-readers and ebooks is often… Mercy Pilkington31 October 20132 comments2 minute read
Wattpad Asks, Are You Ready for NaNoWriMo? National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo, as its affectionately called, is almost… Mercy Pilkington29 October 2013One comment2 minute read
Kobo: Writers Free to Write What they Want, We’re Not Compelled to Sell It Amid the uproar and media firestorm surrounding the recent discovery of inappropriate… Mercy Pilkington25 October 2013One comment2 minute read
ForeWord Reviews’ Book of the Year Awards Open for Submission The past few months has seen an explosive firestorm of opinion taking… Mercy Pilkington4 October 20133 comments2 minute read