Blurb, one of the pioneers of self-publishing for print books, has been taken over by its long-term digital printing partner Reischling Press.
Amazon streamlines promotional access for authors with new KDP marketing resources page
Amazon has added a new Marketing page to the Kindle Direct Publishing website to make it easier to find available resources to promote your books.
Wattpad Books pick up London lockdown love-life stories
Data-driven publisher Wattpad Books is to publish a contemporary romance story collection, Lockdown on London Lane by Beth Reekles. The book follows the love-lives of a group of Londoners in lockdown during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Self-publishing star Mark Dawson ousted from Sunday Times bestsellers Top 10 after print book bulk buy
Thriller author Mark Dawson bought 400 copies of his own print book to boost the title into the Sunday Times bestsellers Top 10 in the UK but Nielsen BookScan, which supplies the figures for the list, has now rejected the bulk buy and is recalculating the list.
Amazon Advertising adds Kindle Unlimited KENP pages read metric to performance dashboard for authors
Amazon Advertising has added Kindle Edition Normalised Pages (KENP) Read to the performance dashboard so authors can get a better measure of the return on their ads.
Amazon says thousands of indie authors still earning more than $50,000 a year from KDP
Over 1,000 indie authors earned more than $100,000 through Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing during the year to the end of May 2020 and 'thousands more independent authors earned more than $50,000'.
Kindle Unlimited KDP Select Fund total leaps by nearly a quarter for the first half of 2020
The Kindle Unlimited KENP rate for June 2020 rose to $0.0045 from $0.0042 in May while the KDP Select Fund for June 2020 edged up by $100,000 to $32.3 million from $32.2 million in May 2020.
UK turns to crime and lifestyle books as reading time nearly doubles and tastes change
Nearly half of UK adults say they read books more since lockdown and have almost doubled their total time spent reading per week from 3.5 hours to 6 hours.
Lightning Source builds up print capacity around the world after publishers turn to POD distribution
Print-on-demand specialist Lightning Source is adding print capacity with investments in the US, UK and Australia.
How to win the Wattys 2020 — Wattpad sets out what the judges will be looking for as contest opens for entries
The Wattys 2020 is opening up for entries from July 13, 2020 with the aim of helping writers to complete their novels and Wattpad has handed out some advice on how to impress the judges.
The Fussy Librarian adds transparency with promotion data showing click numbers and CPC details
The Fussy Librarian ebook promotion website has started to publish some valuable data detailing numbers of clicks and cost-per-click on recent free ebook promotions.