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Word Of The Year

‘Brat’ Named Word of the Year, Kindle Colorsoft Launches, and Germany Explores E-book Lending Models: Self-Publishing News with Dan Holloway

I love following Word of the Year winners. But this year, I definitely feel old. Collins Dictionary has declared its Word of the Year is “brat.” This refers to the in-your-face confidence, independence, and hedonism reflected in the attitude and behavior of figures like Charli XCX, whose album of the same name coined this meaning for the word.
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Written Word Media Survey

Financially Successful Self-Publishers Make Money with Kindle Unlimited, says Written Word Media Survey: Self-Publishing News with Dan Holloway

A few weeks ago, I encouraged you to take part in the latest Written Word Media survey on the self-publishing landscape. Many of you, and other indie writers, did. And now the results are in. As always, I highly recommend you look at the full results. And, as always, I will bring you the highlights here.
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SelfPubCon 24

SelfPubCon 24 Features Tips on Publishing for Profit; Plus, X Changes Blocking Rules and the Rise of Bluesky: Self-Publishing News with Dan Holloway

We started the week by looking back at one conference. We close by taking a look back at another. ALLi’s SelfPubCon 24 brought another 24 hours of fabulous insights from experts across a wide variety of fields in self-publishing. And all was focused on the topic that probably means the most to many of us: “publishing for profit.”
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Nine Dots

Nine Dots — The Biggest Book Prize You’ve Never Heard Of (But Are Eligible to Enter): Self-Publishing News with Dan Holloway

Today, we’ll talk about the Nine Dots Prize. Autumn (or fall) in the Northern Hemisphere is the time for talking about awards. In the past few weeks, I’ve talked about some fairly large awards like the Nobel, and of course, the Booker has been ramping up. But there is one huge book prize that flies below the radar. It opened for entries just over a week ago, will stay open until January 27, 2025, has very few entry restrictions (certainly none excluding indies), and offers a $100,000 first prize.
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Frankfurt Book Fair

At the Frankfort Book Fair, More AI Deals and Glimpses of Writing’s Future: Self-Publishing News with Dan Holloway

Last week was, as you won’t have failed to notice, a week of conferences. There was the Frankfurt Book Fair, one of the largest trade events of the year, and here at ALLi Towers, we held the regular SelfPubCon to tie in with that calendar. This week, I will reflect on the big highlights from both of those, as well as provide some snippets of the latest news.
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Bookwire Offers New Tools to Help Authors Control How AI Uses Their Work: Self-Publishing News with Dan Holloway

How do you stop companies from using your book or other writing to train their large language models? The answer, as I have been reporting a few times, is to apply code or metadata to your files that tells the scraping algorithms to go elsewhere. The latest distributor to allow such metadata to be attached is Bookwire, which has partnered with Liccium to offer the service. Liccium has done a lot of work with the technical and regulatory infrastructure of the literary world to provide an effective and enforceable service.
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Bookshops Are Cool

Bookshops Are Cool Again, But No One Reads Books: Self-Publishing News with Dan Holloway

It is perhaps not a surprise that a survey by the Booksellers Association has found that people think bookshops are cool. It is, however, cool that people seem to think so, albeit a little surprising that this latest finding is considered a new development. I just checked an article I wrote for The Guardian about the coolest bookshop of all, the Albion Beatnik, and was flashed a warning informing me that my article was more than eleven years old.
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