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 as few words as they wished: What is the secret of your success? What was […]
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 guest bloggers reported from around the world on topics including: the print vs ebook debate […]
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 Indie Authors APRIL 2014: This was ALLi’s second anniversary, and over at the London Book […]
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 come right out and say it – the publishing world is in an obvious state […]
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 of doing something that booksellers do better than anyone else on this planet. Hand-selling books. […]
“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 sake of ease of understanding, let’s agree that “metadata” encompasses most things you can change […]
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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 authors release an additional 300,000. It comes as no surprise that discoverability is the biggest […]
“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 or running regular sales in conjunction with an ad. Thinking about it a little deeper […]
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 had ever imagined: over 391,000 books self-pubbed just last year (a 58% increase from 2011), with […]