Goodreads Modifies User Terms to Prevent Author Bullying, Reviewers Outraged After the recent pivotal blowup of author bullying and harassment on book… Mercy Pilkington21 September 2013107 comments2 minute read
Smashwords Launches Series Manager, Receives Award Nomination from BISG As book discovery continues to plague authors of every ilk in a… Mercy Pilkington11 September 20132 comments1 minute read
Kobo Users Can Now Find Book Baby eBooks in Bookstores Even as indie authors and the entire self-publishing concept gain more and… Mercy Pilkington11 September 20132 comments1 minute read
Smashwords to Distribute to India’s Largest eBook Retailer Flipkart eBook retailer and distributor Smashwords announced a deal today that will distribute… Mercy Pilkington29 August 2013One comment2 minute read
Authors, Readers Band Together to Stop Goodreads “Bullying” Who knew the book industry was filled with such venom, such mayhem,… Mercy Pilkington23 August 2013100 comments3 minute read
Bowker Reaches Out to Self-Published Authors Most industry professionals know Bowker as the source for ISBN numbers. And… Mercy Pilkington21 May 20132 comments2 minute read
Smashwords Releases Data from eBook Sales Study The ebook distribution site Smashwords, spearheaded by founder Mark Coker, is often… Mercy Pilkington8 May 2013One comment2 minute read
Indie Authors Help Each Other with Book Promotion One of the great struggles in the current climate of digital and… Mercy Pilkington7 May 20132 comments2 minute read
Partnerships Help Self-Published Authors One of the great paradoxes in the recent growth in digital and… Mercy Pilkington3 May 2013One comment1 minute read
A Little Competition for Smashwords? When the free ebook distribution platform Smashwords was created, critics claimed that… Mercy Pilkington25 April 201310 comments3 minute read
Ganxy Updates Features to Steamline Sales, Promotion for Authors and Publishers A number of companies will be piggybacking off the buzz and attention… Mercy Pilkington15 April 2013One comment3 minute read
BiblioCrunch, Wattpad Connect Authors with Readers There is so much that goes into creating a book, regardless of… Mercy Pilkington3 April 2013One comment2 minute read
Random House Revamps the Unpopular Model of Its eBook-Only Imprints News circulated this week on Random House’s digital imprints Hydra, Flirt, Alibi,… Mercy Pilkington13 March 2013No comments2 minute read
Short List for the ABNA Awards Announced The Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards, which opened to the maximum 10,000 entries… Mercy Pilkington13 March 20132 comments1 minute read
The Hybrid Publisher So much industry attention has been given to a concept that first… Mercy Pilkington27 February 2013One comment2 minute read
IndieRecon Online Event Invites All Attendees While many of the major events within the publishing industry are held… Mercy Pilkington18 February 20132 comments2 minute read
ForeWord Reviews Redesign Aids Discoverability One of the key buzzwords that kept coming up at Digital Book… Mercy Pilkington24 January 2013One comment1 minute read
Self-Published eBooks Reach Amazon UK Top 100 Bestseller List If there was still any doubt about the potential for success and… Mercy Pilkington8 January 2013One comment2 minute read
Authors Benefit from Teamwork on Promotion With the promotion budgets slashed for even traditionally published authors due to… Mercy Pilkington4 January 20132 comments2 minute read
Digital Single Give Away for New Year’s Eve The single biggest advantage that digital publishing has brought to DIY authors… Mercy Pilkington31 December 2012One comment3 minute read