As inspiration for your new self-publishing year, here's a checklist of the self-publishing superstars that we interviewed for our Sunday "How I Do It" slot in 2015. Each special guest answered the same 7 key questions, in as many or…
Continuing the round-up of the ALLi self-publishing advice blog in 2014, here's a quick glance at what we covered on the theme of Publishing. Every Friday, we addressed a different aspect of the publishing industry and its continuing development. Our…
It’s been quite a year for all of us at ALLi - and as we take time out for the holidays, it’s also a good excuse to take stock of the past year, before 2014 becomes 2015. Opening up to…
In today's Opinion slot, Giacomo Giammatteo of our Watchdog team, fresh from updating ALLi's guide book Choosing A Self-Publishing Service, pays tribute to Smashwords, which has just been awarded ALLi's Author Service Award 2014. If you haven’t figured it out by now, I’ll…
I have been a bookseller since 1992. I joined Kobo in October 2011, after having worked in online bookselling, academic bookselling, big box retailer bookselling and small neighborhood stores. Over the past couple of decades I have had the privilege…
“Metadata” is one of those buzzwords that has, in the past couple of years, been repeated so much that it’s starting to lose its meaning (or…maybe it’s that no one really knew what it meant to begin with). For the…
You’ve successfully set up your Goodreads author profile and shelved your favorite books – now what do you do to get readers to pay attention to your own book? Every year, the publishing industry releases 300,000 new books and self-published…
“If you could give one piece of marketing advice to authors, what would it be?” I’m often asked this question, and depending on what way the wind is blowing, I might suggest taking a professional approach to your book’s presentation…
Everyone knows that e-publishing has been good to self published authors. In fact, if weren’t for Amazon and Kindle, the indie revolution as we know it might have never happened. But happened it did, and to an extent that no one…
Information with VideoI wish this could go without saying, but it has to be said and it bears repeating, since I see authors make this mistake all the time. It’s a bit difficult to maximize your sales at Kobo if…
I have been a published author for over twenty years, which means pre-internet and have even worked inside of the publishing industry. In that time the industry has changed from a tightly-guarded portal where only a few writers were able…
