The Writer's Guide to E-Publishing
Tips, Resources, Real Numbers, and What's New in E-Publishing
Unpublish or perish? Nowadays, anybody can publish a book. “Publishing” just means to make it available to the public, and you can do that (digitally) through a lot of options: Smashwords, Amazon, and so on. It’s possible that some people leap at the opportunity, and don’t consider what they are doing as carefully as might [...]
Fun or money? I don’t make my living writing. I have a full time job, although I wouldn’t be poverty level based on my income the past few years as a writer. However, I do think, and I believe I’m realistic in this, I could be only a writer and make a decent living. It [...]
Not so freely free: Amazon’s 20K/80% vision Who doesn’t like free books, right? How about the company that has to deliver all those books…and store them for people…and deal with the Customer Service…and the accounting costs…and… Well, free books even have their benefits for that company, of course. Free books can inspire the sale of [...]
Paging Dr. Page: your Amazon Author Central page Don’t you wish your publisher would promote your blog posts, let you directly connect to your readers, and host a calendar of your events? Well, if you publish through Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing, you can do all that…and more! Even if you only have independently published e-books [...]
What do tradpubs do…and can you do it? When I did a recent analysis of the top fifty bestsellers in the USA Kindle store, 22 of them (44%) weren’t from the big traditional publishers (tradpubs). That’s an astonishing number…six years ago, pre-Kindle (although e-books were around, they weren’t having much of an impact on sales), [...]
teens/tweens. She’s successfully written for traditional NYpublishing houses, as well as topped the Amazon and Barnes & Noble bestseller lists with her indie published works. Her books have been translated into several languages, sold in more than a dozen countries, and have been option for a cable television series. She currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area where she is constantly fighting her addiction to Starbucks lattes. You can find her online at: www.gemmahalliday.com [Read More…]
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