B&N Press Just Sweetened Its Deal for Indie Authors One of the most important things about self-publishing has always been that… Mercy Pilkington1 February 2021One comment2 minute read
Amazon Accidentally Drops a 50% Royalty Bombshell Indie authors who took a browse through their KDP dashboards this week… Mercy Pilkington17 January 2018One comment2 minute read
Smashwords Unveils Publishing Predictions for 2018 Smashwords’ CEO and founder Mark Coker has once again unveiled his annual… Mercy Pilkington9 January 2018One comment2 minute read
Smashwords Announces New eBook Promotion Tool In the ongoing debate about whether or not to list your indie… Mercy Pilkington20 August 201712 comments2 minute read
KDP Offers Authors a New Sales Dashboard There’s little doubt that Amazon has been the driving force behind the… Mercy Pilkington15 June 2017One comment2 minute read
Should Authors Go Exclusive with Amazon? The Author Earnings report has come out once again, and if there’s… Mercy Pilkington23 March 20173 comments2 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
The KDP Select Global Fund for February is $14 million Amazon has just announced that the Kindle Direct Publishing Select Global fund… Michael Kozlowski15 March 2016One comment1 minute read
The KDP Select Global Fund for January is $15 million Amazon has just announced that their KDP Select Global Fund for January 2016… Michael Kozlowski15 February 2016One comment1 minute read
Self-Published Authors Have Fewer e-Book Distribution Options Self-published authors are facing major difficulties in selling their e-books online. Many… Michael Kozlowski27 September 2015One comment3 minute read
Amazon Changes the Structure of KDP Select Amazon has just announced sweeping changes to their Kindle Direct Publishing Select… Michael Kozlowski15 June 20153 comments2 minute read
New Kindle Direct Publishing Dashboard to Help Indie Authors Amazon is famous for surprising its authors with new features, new offers,… Mercy Pilkington24 April 2015One comment3 minute read
Amazon Announces a New KDP Select Perk: Amazon Marketing Services Authors who’ve enrolled their books in Amazon’s exclusive program KDP Select might… Mercy Pilkington31 January 2015One comment3 minute read
Kindle Unlimited Goes Live with eBook, Audiobook Titles Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited, the ebook and audiobook subscription service that lets members… Mercy Pilkington18 July 2014One comment2 minute read
Advice to Indie Authors: Don’t Overlook Kobo When Amazon introduced KDP Select, the exclusive program that offered indie authors… Mercy Pilkington12 July 20143 comments2 minute read
Debunking Amazon’s 70% Royalty for Indie Authors and Publishers With news this week that Amazon has added whole new international markets… Mercy Pilkington3 July 2014One comment3 minute read
Kindle Countdown Deals Offer Consumers Timed Price Cuts on eBooks Amazon just announced a new feature for consumers which will alert them… Mercy Pilkington31 October 2013One comment2 minute read
KDP Select Launches Lending in Japan, What That Means for Authors Amazon announced this week that it has now extended its Kindle ebook… Mercy Pilkington21 August 2013One comment1 minute read
Kindle Still Reigns Supreme in Amazon’s Quarterly Report Amazon’s first quarter figures are in and the clear winner is the… Mercy Pilkington28 April 2012One comment1 minute read
Amazon’s KDP Select Contains Over 100K Titles It’s the retail ebook platform that everyone loves to hate, at least… Mercy Pilkington4 April 20122 comments2 minute read
KDP Select Loans Nearly 300K eBooks Amazon launched its KDP Select program to feed digital book titles into… Mercy Pilkington12 January 2012One comment2 minute read
Surge in Amazon, Library Ebook Lending The first month for Amazon’s controversial KDP Select program has come to… Mercy Pilkington1 January 20123 comments2 minute read
KDP Select: A New Perspective Some of the first uproar over Amazon’s newest publishing option, KDP Select,… Mercy Pilkington18 December 20114 comments2 minute read
