Understanding Amazon’s Recommendation Engine by David Gaughran
“If you could give one piece of marketing advice to authors, what would it be?” I’m often asked this question,…
How To Reach Readers With Social Search Techniques
The globetrotting author coach and bestselling self-published author Connie Brentford, founder of The Moonlighter's Guide website, shares some invaluable and…
How to Reach Book Reviewers via NetGalley
Book publicity expert Ben Cameron describes the Netgalley service used by trade publishers to put books in front of reviewers…
Join Us for Our Online “Ask Amazon” Event
Thom Kephart, Amazon's Community Outreach Product Manager (right) will drop by on Tuesday, 28th January 2014, to answer ALLi…
Authors: How to Reach Readers in the Age of the Algorithm
"It's a marathon, not a sprint," says ALLi's US Advisor Jane Friedman, in this comprehensive article on how online search…
Publishing: New Free Service from BookBaby
Earlier this week digital book distribution service Bookbaby launched BookBaby Free, the first of its services to be available without…
Publishing: How To Design The Best Book Cover for Online Sales
ALLi Partner member Simon Avery, book designer at idobookcovers.com, explains the most important principles of cover design for books to…
Opinion: Why Amazon Bestsellers Don’t Impress My Dog
Indie author Michael N Marcus explains why he's not impressed by his own bestseller status, or anyone else's. If you’re…
Opinion: I Love You, Lulu, But… by Francis Booth
I recently wrote an article for The Guardian’s blog about how the rise of the Creative Writing course had killed…
Why Indie Authors Need to Understand the Subculture of Amazon Reviewers
ALLi blog editor Debbie Young pitches into the online review debate and introduces a self-published author who has spent five…
How To Choose The Right KDP Categories: Increase The Discoverability Of Your Self-Published Books
Indie author Eliza Green shares her personal experience of improving her self-published book's discoverability on Amazon by strategic choice of…
How My Indie Book Came Back From The Dead
Indie author Christopher Shevlin gives an inspiring account of how he reversed falling sales of his self-published novel and turned…