Self-publishing Blog

I'm not sure Amazon should be drawing too much attention to the so-called success of the Mayday button on its new Kindle Fire HDX tablets. READ MORE >>

Self-published ebooks now rank third in the publisher best-seller list covering the whole of 2013, with only giant publishers Hachette and Penguin Random House beating self-pub. READ MORE >>

A unique new twist to the Smashwords deal with ebook subscription service Scribd this week means authors will get paid for partial reads even if only just over 15% of their book is read. READ MORE >>

Smashwords authors can get a free subscription worth over $100 if they sign up for the company's new deal with Scribd's ebook subscription service which also includes a range of marketing support. READ MORE >>

The British Library has released over a million public domain images taken from 17th, 18th and 19th Century books and publications and is looking to crowdsourcing to help to organise the massive new resources. READ MORE >>

Only one book in Amazon's Top 20 sellers of 2013 has sold more print copies than Kindle editions READ MORE >>

If you're looking to publish new books over Christmas or make changes to existing titles you need to act fast to get your titles on Apple's iBooks and Kobo as they're both shutting down over the holiday period. READ MORE >>

Books seem to be getting longer these days, sometimes much too long, so it was good to come across an infographic from Halfprice Books extolling the virtues of some great books under 200 pages. Click on the thumbnail pic here to see the infographic in full. READ MORE >>

The commercial success of self-publishing is shown in a snapshot survey by this site which reveals that 21% of the Top 100 best-selling ebooks this year are by self-published authors. READ MORE >>

The Birds by Aristophanes READ MORE >>

The worldwide boom in Scandinavian crime fiction could be coming to an end as Sweden turns towards more quirky books. READ MORE >>