Self-publishing aggregator PublishDrive is looking to triple book sales this year by boosting print-on-demand after getting new investment from Lead Ventures.
Amazon Ads can now be used by Kindle Direct Publishing authors to advertise their traditionally published books as well as their KDP titles in the US.
Best-selling science fiction/fantasy author Brandon Sanderson has become the biggest-ever fund-raiser on crowdfunding site Kickstarter with an incredible $41.7 million raised during the 30-day campaign.
Publisher Bookouture has revealed that their star author Angela Marsons has hit the five million mark of copies sold in her Kim Stone detective series.
Amazon Publishing is teaming up with Mindy Kaling to launch Mindy’s Book Studio, a boutique story studio that will publish books selected by Kaling from emerging and established diverse voices.
Ingram Content Group is launching a range of consumer marketing services to help publishers reach readers directly.
Kindle Unlimited started the year with a bang as the KDP Select Global Fund for January 2022 leapt by the biggest-ever monthly rise of $2.7 million to $42.9 million from $40.2 million in December 2021.
Ebook distributor Draft2Digital is taking over self-publishing pioneer Smashwords in a merger of two of the leading aggregators in the indie author market.
The Kindle Vella bonus for December 2021 for authors has risen by the usual $50,000 to $650,000 from $600,000 in November 2021. Amazon has extended the reach of Kindle Vella stories by making them available to readers in the Kindle app on Android and Fire devices.
The Kindle Unlimited KDP Select Global Fund for December 2021 rose by $300,000 to $40.2 million from $39.9 million in November to send the total amount paid out during the calendar year 2021 to $450.1 million.
Readers worldwide borrowed a total of 506 million ebooks, audiobooks and digital magazines from public libraries in 2021 through leading library distributor OverDrive.