Dan Holloway, Author at The Self-Publishing Advice Center

Self-publishing News: A Brief History

Arts Council England has issued a report outlining what it thinks the impact of technology on culture will be in the next decade, ebook platforms expand in Europe, unstaffed bookstores are with us, and it has been a very sad week in the indie community as cyberbullying has dominated much of our discussions on social media.

Self-publishing News: New Ways to Connect

Streetlib launches a marketplace for authors and service providers, the Audible Romance controversy rumbles, on, and we look at the differing trends in ebooks across the globe.

Self-publishing News: A Not So Fine Romance

Initial royalty payments from Audible Romance are distinctly underwhelming, Amazon sponsors DigitalBookWorld, and Publica announces a blockchain-based alternative to DRM.

Self-publishing News: The Problem With Ebooks?

Hachette's CEO claims that ebooks are a stupid product but admits publishers are partly to blame, while Amazon's own imprints look strangely dominant in its bestseller charts, and sales of ebooks in Germany stagnate.

February 27, 2018
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Self-publishing News: When the News is the News

Wattpad are giving viewers the chance to decide if they like the look of a series with short pilot adaptations taken from the site, while a court rules if you embed copyright-infringing content from elsewhere on your website, you may be liable, and Book Expo gets a makeover but may have forgotten a key ingredient in its core business...authors.

February 20, 2018
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Self-publishing News: Amazon Ventures Forth

Amazon moves into from-your-doorstep delivery and releases a Wordpress plug-in to turn your blogs into podcasts, the EU fails to do away with geoblocking, and earning a living through self-publishing non-fiction on Medium proves tricky.

February 13, 2018
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Self-publishing News: .epub and You

Eyewatering sales figures for Amazon and Apple, new EPub possibilities with Libre Office, new features from Barnes and Noble, and independent bookstores in the UK talking about forming an alliance.

February 6, 2018
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Self-publishing News: Direct Publishing Platforms Get a Makeover

Nook and iBooks get a makeover, Rakuten Kobo partners Walmart, and a new prize for thrillers opens its doors to indies

January 30, 2018
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Self-publishing News: All About the Readers

Amazon has finally opened its first staff-less shop to the public, Wattpad has secured $51m funding to expand its machine learning, and several platforms have expandd their offerings to readers.

January 23, 2018
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Self-publishing News: When the News becomes the News

Facebook has changed the way it decides what shows up in your newsfeed to avoid content from businesses, but what does that mean for indies? And Amazon has been tinkering with KDP.

January 16, 2018
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Self-publishing News: Who Owns an Indie’s Works?

New opportunities open up for indies in Arab reading markets while Barnes and Noble have another bad period and a new crowdfunding site launches for author services.

January 9, 2018
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Writing: Why the Prologue Deserves a Place in Modern Indie Fiction

Prologues - love 'em or hate 'em? Don't dismiss them for your own books as outdated or cliched devices until you've read this spirited defence of the prologue by indie author and editor Dan Holloway.