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Encore Opinion: Why Author Income Should Be A Measure of Publishing Success

July 29, 2019
Orna Ross
Beginning Self-Publishing, Debate & Opinion, Running An Author Business, Self-Publishing LIfe
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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

June 21, 2019
Boni Wagner-Stafford
Debate & Opinion, Running An Author Business
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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: Why Indie Authors Should 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…

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,…

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…

This Week’s Self-publishing News: Being Indie and Free Expression

There are many motivations for going indie. One of the metaphors I used to hear most was that setting out for…