Smashwords Archives

Self-publishing News: Draft2Digital Acquires Smashwords

Book fairs move back to exhibition halls, Amazon Prime raises price, Audie Awards success for indie Mary Jane Wells.

International Insights: Indie Friendly Aggregators

For this week’s edition of the Alliance of Independent Authors International Insights hosted by Mark Williams of The New Publishing Standard, we’re moving on to indie friendly aggregators.

Self-publishing News: Subscription Reading Insights

Bookbeat Insights offers transparency for authors making their work available on subecription services; new opportunities from Twitch.

Self-publishing News: Barnes and Noble Royalty Wobbles

Barnes and Noble struggle with royalties to ebook distribution platforms, Patreon lays off staff, and good news for bokosellers might not be what it seems.

Self-publishing News: Will Audiobooks overtake ebooks?

Smashwords launches a presales feature, and a newspaper makes a confusing claim that audiobook sales will overtake ebooks in 2020.

Self-Publishing News: A Fair Deal for Indies

Bogota Book Fair opens its doors to indies, StreeLib opens 20 new portals & there are new offerings from Smashwords and Draft2Digital.

Self-publishing News: A Plagiarism Problem?

Plagiarism is in the news, possibly targeting indies and on KDP in general and we examine the indie presence at London Book Fair.

Self-publishing News: Booksellers Square Up to Amazon (Again)

Booksellers stand up to Amazon and force a backdown over the withdrawal of the Abebooks website from several countries. Smashwords celebrates its half millionth title with a radical site overhaul.

Self-publishing News: Dog Day Afternoon

What did Amazon Prime Day deliver except pictures of dogs? New distribution opportunities from Smashwords and PublishDrive.

Older Authors Refuse to Fade Away: May 2018 AskALLi IndieVoices Broadcast

Welcome to AskALLi, the self-publishing advice broadcast from the Alliance of Independent Authors. This week it's our monthly IndieVoices' self-publishing…

Indie Authors’ Questions Answered in AskALLi Members’ Q&A Podcast for April 2018

Indie authors' questions answered in this month's AskALLi Q&A include issues about pen names, rights sales, reviewers and translations - and many other aspects of self-publishing. Catch the answers here - and feel free to put your own questions for next time!