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Self-publishing News: Finding Your Voice

Smashwords partners with Findaway Voices, more than a million ebooks have now been borrowed through Overdrive, and we meet the best ebook coders.

March 27, 2018
Dan Holloway
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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.

January 23, 2018
Dan Holloway
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Self-publishing News On the Shelf

Our weekly round-up of top self-publishing news includes new offerings from KDP Print and Buk, Overdrive's new service for libraries, and an inspiring role model via Wattpad.

November 21, 2017
Dan Holloway
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Self-publishing News: Barnes & Noble – Saying Goodbye to Nook?

This week's round-up of top self-publishing news stories includes Barnes & Nobles' withdrawal of Nook, DRM matters, the onward march of ebooks in libraries and a stalemate in China.

September 26, 2017
Dan Holloway
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Self-publishing News: Barnes and Noble in the Spotlight

This week the Alliance of Independent Authors’s self-publishing news bulletin investigates B&N rumours, reports upbeat news from libraries, and shares a great new free image resource.

September 5, 2017
Dan Holloway
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Self-Publishing News: Changing Platforms

Libraries are magical places. I am absurdly lucky in Oxford to spend a great deal of time in some of…

Self-publishing News: In Overdrive

This week's must-read round-up of self-publishing news for indie authors includes news on key distributors, aggregators and bookstores - brought to you by ALLi's news editor Dan Holloway.