Self-publishing News: Ingram Spark Cracks Down on Questionable Content
Ingram Spark announces new content guidelines and a review of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act begins while Coronavirus hits book fairs.
Encore Opinion: Why Author Income Should Be A Measure of Publishing Success
ALLi Director Orna Ross expands on a statement she made in a previous AskALLi Advanced Salon: that indie author income should be a measure of self- publishing success. She responds to comments for and against that motion, and explains the background to her thinking about author income. Where do you stand on this issue? Read the post then join the encore debate via the comments box!
Self-Publishing Solutions to Low Author Earnings: ALLi Members Respond
Another month, another report about poverty-level author incomes. Boni Wagner-Stafford, ALLi's Communications Manager shares ALLi voices participating in the discussion of the UK's All Party Writers Group report's recommendations. Does the APWG report miss the point? Are there self-publishing solutions to low author earnings?
Self-publishing News: Writers Struggling to Make a Living
How much a writer earns from writing continues to make depressing reading, and a clash in Swedish audio subscription has global consequences.
OPINION: It’s Art AND Commerce: Should Indie Authors Make Money A Measure of Publishing Success?
What does self-publishing success mean to you? How do you measure it? ALLi Director Orna Ross explains why she believes it's money - and explains the reasoning and background behind her thinking. Do you agree? Join the conversation!
Self-publishing News: Amazon’s Bad Week
Amazon's share price took a plunge but what exactly does this mean for indie authors? Amazon also seems to have been removing authors' titles seemingly at random.
Opinion: Author Earnings through Author Business
A must-read post by Orna Ross that goes behind scaremongering stories about author incomes falling and explains how indie authors are uniquely placed to build successful businesses based on their writing careers.
Self-publishing News: Talking Author Earnings
Figures show that author incomes continue to fall. Now is the time to make your website secure or fall foul of Google's algorithms, while you may already be falling foul of Facebook and Amazon's.
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: New Kid on the Block
Looking through my notes on this week's news, I can tell event season is about to be upon us. Stories are jostling and jockeying for position, each striving to be the one that catches the wave of publicity at just…
Self-Publishing News: The Times They Are A Changing
OK, I couldn't not use that as my title this week, could I?! And if you don't know what I mean, let me explain, slowly and calmly. This week saw the announcement of the 2016 winner of the Nobel Prize…
Self-publishing News: Writing on the Go
Well, I've had quite a week. I would say my feet have hardly hit the ground, but as you'll know from last week that would hardly be true. My feet have done a lot of hitting the ground, as I…