The launch of the new IngramSpark service is aimed at indie publishers and mixes together the existing Lightning Source print-on-order service and the Ingram print and ebook distribution networks.
Ebooks can be a difficult market for literary publishers caught between 99p offers and the Dan Browns, so it’s good to see a couple of small presses leap into the Amazon UK ebook best-sellers with relatively little-known writers at relatively high prices.
With the Tour de France in full swing, I’ve been considering, between mass crashes and team buses getting stuck underneath the finishing line, the paucity of novels about cycling, particularly road racing.
Rick Karlsruher reports on how he is setting up an ebook club to help to provide a platform for new writers
What are the best fonts to use when you're self-publishing an ebook? Writers can get a shock when they carefully select styles and then view it on a Kindle to find their choices have been changed, sometimes dramatically.
A series of German books in translation about a Bavarian hangman has given Amazon Publishing its first million-selling author.
The laptop could be taking a big leap forward for reading books as Apple has made a Maverick move that could be a winner in bringing its iBooks platform to laptop and desktop computers.
Blogging is a vital foundation for a writer’s platform and trust is the key to a successful blog.
Best-selling self-publisher Hugh Howey has a revealing article in Salon where he writes about under-the-radar writers who are making substantial sums from their ebooks.
Sales of George Orwell’s dystopian classic 1984 have been tapping into the NSA snooping revelations to shoot up the book charts.
Crowdfunding helps authors to pre-test their book before publication and can give you an instant readership and social media circle all your own as your supporters will be getting your book and telling their friends about it.