In this month’s Advanced Self-Publishing Salon from the Alliance of Independent Authors, Orna Ross and Joanna Penn discuss five tips for growing your author business. Plus, lessons learned at Novelists INC and Digital Book World. The AskALLi podcasts are sponsored by Damonza: Books Made Awesome. Topics discussed this week include: Orna updates us on what […]
ALLi Director Orna Ross shares the key takeaways from the groundbreaking Digital Book World conference 2018, including exciting opportunities and calls to action for indie authors who want to be a part of selfpublishing 3.0.
Subscription services are the talk of Frankfurt Book Fair while Comic Con’s success demonstrates the continued rise of graphic literature. Amazon faces increased postal costs while Barnes and N oble Press has something new.
SELFPUBCON, ALLi’s free online self-publishing conference, now has its own dedicated website – this post will show you how to find it and when to look for it!
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.
Are you planning to attend Digital Book World this October? If so, don’t miss this opportunity, available exclusively to ALLi members, to take a guided tour of Ingram’s nearby printing plant to gain fascinating insights into how print-on-demand works.
As libraries play an increasing part in people’s digital reading habits, it is increasingly important for indie writers not to follow the likes of publishing house Tor and restrict libraries’ access to their works. And the UK government launches a competition for an app to improve literacy.
Thinking of attending Digital Book World in Nashville in October? Then don’t miss out on these great deals that ALLi has negotiated for ALLi members and indie authors everywhere!
This week’s self-publishing news includes the end of an era at Kobo, tax matters both sides of the Atlantic, & a wake-up call about data storage – plus some fun with the Bad Sex in Fiction awards!
A quick round-up of the latest hot news stories in the world of self-publishing, from Amazon, Smashwords, Wattpad, and David Gaughran