ALLi Watchdog Giacomo Giammatteo continues his examination of the Kirkus book reviews service. A lot of companies have jumped on the bandwagon and decided to ride the wave of independent publishing. And why not? It’s an easy way to make…
ALLi is delighted to announce that Giacomo Giammatteo will now head up its Watchdog desk, which on behalf of our membership and for self-published authors everywhere keeps a close check on all services affecting indie authors. Below Jim introduces himself and defines…
ALLi Winter Event Programme: A reminder to check out ALLi’s member events programme for this winter. It's a busy few months event wise, with all at ALLi delighted to offer you plenty of hangouts this winter. We begin with a…
A profile of ALLi's Choosing A Self-Publishing Service Guide by its co-author, Ben Galley, one of ALLi's Watchdog team. As Victoria Strauss says – there are sharks out there in the publishing waters. What sort of shark? What possible danger…
Here’s some news straight from the buzzing stalls of Book Expo America. There are some big changes afoot at Ingram, affecting authors who use Ingram’s POD wing, Lightning Source. Lightning Source, from my point of view as an author/user, is…
The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi) is concerned about the email approach being made by Archway Publishing to a number of our advisors and colleagues. Archway is a new joint venture between publisher Simon & Schuster and Author Solutions…