Watchdog: The Two-Way Ethics of Authors and Service Providers
Continuing the conversation begun in ALLi's Ethical Author campaign towards the end of 2014, ALLi Watchdog Giacomo Giammaetteo…
Watchdog: Ebook Distribution Takes a Leap Forward
ALLi Watchdog Giacomo Giammatteo shares exciting news about some great new features to be offered by ebook distributors that will…
Watchdog: Big Changes at Bookbaby
EBook Distribution Options Is Free eBook Distribution At An End? Everyone knows that the publishing industry is experiencing massive changes…
Publishing: Price-Matching On Amazon
For authors who use 'price pulsing' (i.e. vary the price to stimulate sales) or discount their self-published books across multiple…
Smashwords Commended by ALLi’s Author Service Award 2014
In today's Opinion slot, Giacomo Giammatteo of our Watchdog team, fresh from updating ALLi's guide book Choosing A Self-Publishing Service,…
Publishing: New Free Service from BookBaby
Earlier this week digital book distribution service Bookbaby launched BookBaby Free, the first of its services to be available without…
Mark Coker’s Smart Self-publishing Strategies. Part Two: Merchandising For Apple iBooks.
Normally on a Sunday, we run a feature called "How I Do It" that focusses on super-successful indies. Today, in…
Mark Coker’s Self-publishing Strategies for Success
Today we are giving the blog floor over to somebody who has worked for years to help indies succeed: Mark…
How I Earn A Living As An Indie Author: I Do It My Way
In a presentation hailed as "inspirational" at a recent Edinburgh publishing conference, self-published writer Linda Gillard described how going indie…
Why We Survey Indie Books & Behaviour at Smashwords by ALLi Advisor Mark Coker
In the old world of print publishing, publishers controlled the printing press, the access to retail distribution, and the knowledge…
Is Exploiting Self-Publishing Authors To Be The New Publishing Model?
Is the new business model for publishers to be selling over-priced and under-performing services to writers? That's the question that…
Is Bookbaby or Smashwords Best for Self-Publishers?
Part One of A Five-Part Week Series: "Which Distributor". A Guest Post by Giacomo Giammatteo. All this week on the Alliance…