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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Self-publishing News: Leaping into 2018
Why Magic Leap might open new opportunities for writers, and new opportunities for ebooks in Arabic and in India.
Self-publishing News: A Brief History of 2017
ALLi rounds up the key stories of 2017 for self-publishers from the rise of Blockchain to the downfall of distribution platforms backed by big publishers.
Self-publishing News: Grand Decentral Station
ALLi's Self-publishing News looks at how changes to Patreon's business model will affect indies, new developments in blockchain, an exciting breakthrough for indies in dealing with European Union tax law complexity, and the growth of the digital textbook rental market.
Self-publishing News: Putting it on the Blockchain
ALLi's self-publishing news looks back at the 2017 Futurebook conference, with an emphasis on inclusion and blockchain, and explores exciting news on audiobooks from Storytel and on the expansion of PublishDrive, while the news of Kindle giveaways from Goodreads makes less enticing reading.
Advanced Self-Publishing Salon Podcast w/ Orna Ross & Joanna Penn December 2017
Each month Orna Ross and Joanna Penn join forces to bring you The Advanced Self-Publishing Salon, an engaging podcast where they discuss what’s going on in the indie publishing world.
Newsflash: PublishDrive Expands Its Ebook Publishing Operations to US – Great News for Indie Authors
Ebook publishing platform PublishDrive extends its operations to US in $1.2MM deal that will open up huge new opportunities to indie authors around the world
Self-publishing News: End of an Era
This week's self-publishing news includes the end of an era at Kobo, tax matters both sides of the Atlantic, & a wake-up call about data storage - plus some fun with the Bad Sex in Fiction awards!