Hugh Howey and the Road Map to Publishing Despite the successes Hugh Howey has enjoyed as an author, he began… Mercy Pilkington17 April 2014One comment3 minute read
Spanish Language eBook Market Comes Into Its Own When ebooks first began their accelerating trend, they were a decidedly English-based… Mercy Pilkington13 April 20142 comments2 minute read
Hugh Howey Explains the Need for Authors to Give Away Their Books On last week’s IndieChat event, hosted every Tuesday night on Twitter by… Mercy Pilkington11 April 2014One comment2 minute read
New SelfPub Writing Award Backed By The Guardian With indie authors often barred from prestigious writing and book awards, smaller… Mercy Pilkington9 April 2014One comment1 minute read
The Bullies Win: Authors Abandoning Publishing Over Online Behaviors Good e-Reader has given extensive coverage to a situation plaguing the publishing… Mercy Pilkington7 April 201428 comments3 minute read
Author’s Guild Elects SelfPublished Author CJ Lyons to Executive Council In the ongoing world of us-against-them where traditional and self-publishing are concerned,… Mercy Pilkington3 April 2014No comments2 minute read
eBook Sales Continue to Thrive It’s been years since the onset of the most recent digital publishing… Mercy Pilkington20 March 20142 comments1 minute read
Ellen Hopkins, eBooks, and the Fight Against Censorship Young adult author Ellen Hopkins is no stranger to controversy. Her teen… Mercy Pilkington13 March 2014One comment3 minute read
eBooks India to Help Authors Ride Self Publishing Boom With e-book consumption hitting high growth in India, a natural fallout has… Sovan Mandal12 March 2014One comment3 minute read
Indie eBooks Need to be Segregated Industry analysts are claiming that by 2020 50% of all digital books… Michael Kozlowski11 March 2014120 comments4 minute read
PubSmartcon: Reenvisioning the Writer’s Conference Writers’ conferences have long been a source of networking and support for… Mercy Pilkington11 March 2014One comment2 minute read
Hugh Howey Gives Toxic Advice for Self-Publishers Hugh Howey is a self-published author who leveraged Kindle Direct Publishing to… Michael Kozlowski10 March 201427 comments4 minute read
What Happens When Amazon Is the Last One Standing? We’ve heard speculation and criticism for years about how Amazon is ruining… Mercy Pilkington10 March 20149 comments2 minute read
Self-Publishers Should Not Be Called Authors Should we quantify a distinction between a writer and a professional author? I think a line needs to be drawn in the sand so that we know who the real deal is. Michael Kozlowski7 March 20141,247 comments3 minute read
What Does It Take to Sell 100M eBooks? Smut and Marketing It still makes headlines whenever a self-published author manages to sell one… Mercy Pilkington6 March 20143 comments2 minute read
Vook Launches Amazing New Book Tracking Tool, Author Control A lot of focus in the publishing industry lately has centered around… Mercy Pilkington4 March 2014One comment3 minute read