Kindle Direct Publishing initiates audiobook production of KDP titles in new virtual voice narration beta test

Amazon announced in the KDP community forum it has initiated the beta…

Amazon will limit the number of books that can be published via KDP

As the influence of generative AI technology continues to expand within the…
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Important Update on Kindle Direct Publishing Categories

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KDP Change Means No More MOBI Files

Uploading self-published or small press titles to Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing platform…

Amazon Claims to Resolve “Disappearing” eBooks Issue

A couple of weeks ago, prolific author, advocate, and self-pub expert David Gaughran published a blog piece on a disturbing phenomenon: international customers were having trouble buying titles that had been published via KDP. The post had over 100 comments in the first twenty-four hours, largely from authors who detailed their own problems with trying to sell their books on Amazon and its international markets. Comments over on Passive Voice were largely the same, with authors outlining their struggles with the bookselling platform in general, not just in terms of sales frustrations. According to Gaughran, “A situation blew up at Amazon over the weekend which has made most KDP ebooks unavailable to purchase for international readers who use the US Kindle Store — one which has also exposed a glaring security problem. This issue — which is either a bug or a badly bungled roll-out — is causing great confusion as its effects are only visible to those outside the USA, which might explain why Amazon has been so slow to address it, or even understand the problem, it seems.” But there’s more to the story. As Gaughran points out, the issue was a slow-moving one, affecting customers first in Australia a few weeks before this larger-scale incident. That hardly speaks to a server issue or a software bug, although stranger things have been known to happen. However, the gradual problems sound more like policy changes gone wrong or an attempt to unveil an alternative to buying books via the US-based Amazon platform.

KDP Launches New Reports Dashboard in Beta

Self-published authors whose works are distributed via Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing platform may have noticed a couple of beauty-wise changes to their author dashboards. A new report dashboard, currently in beta, gives the muddled old dashboard a much-needed facelift.

BN Press Now Offers Pre-Orders, But Why?

Barnes & Noble is still clinging to life despite years-long rumors that…

Authors Who Game the System Are Eating their Own

There’s no doubt the publishing landscape and the world of self-publishing have…

What’s All This Stuff about Book Stuffing?

There’s been no shortage of controversy in publishing lately, much of it…

B&N Rebrands Its Self-publishing Platform – Nook Press

Self-published authors who’ve relied on multiple sales channels to put their books…

Amazon Layoffs in SelfPub Division

According to a report from a local newspaper, Amazon is the latest…

Kindle Create Available to All Authors

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

Amazon has Changed Kindle Edition Normalized Pages to Calculate Royalties

Amazon has just unveiled KENPC v3.0 today and it will dramatically change…

Amazon KDP Unveils Kindle Create Word Doc Conversion Tool

If you’re a self-published author, writing your book is only half the…

New Prime Reading Offer Asks Authors to Give Up Royalties. Here’s Why They Should.

As if Amazon didn’t already have enough critics, the company has unleashed…

Does KDP Paperback Publishing Really Solve Anything?

Never one to be a naysayer, we at GoodEReader ordinarily go fan-girl…