Print book distributor IngramSpark is banning low-content books such as notebooks and journals, summary books and any books that mirror popular titles and will remove any existing content that falls foul of its new policy.
Kindle Unlimited saw the biggest-ever monthly increase in the KDP Select fund for January 2020 as the fund rose by $2m to $28.2 million from $26.2 million in December 2019.
There’s a strong showing from indie romance authors on the Kindle best-sellers list this week (February 15, 2020) amid the cascade of Amazon Publishing releases.
The Self-Publishing Advice Conference is all set for the first major event of the year with the Online Author Conference on Saturday, March 14 to tie in with the London Book Fair.
Penguin Random House are withdrawing their titles from digital book subscription platforms following the takeover of the company by German publishing giant Bertelsmann in December 2019.
The Kindle Unlimited KENP rate for December 2019 fell back to $0.0046 from $0.0049 in November while the KDP Select Global Fund for December 2019 again rose by $100,000 to $26.2 million.
Bookouture founder Oliver Rhodes is quitting as Chief Executive of the company two years after selling Bookouture to Hachette and is planning to set up a new publishing business.
Indie authors account for at least one in four of the titles sold by Kobo in their major markets over the last year and the firm says this is a growing trend worldwide.
More European governments have now slashed the rate of Value Added Tax (VAT) on ebooks following Germany’s tax reduction in December last year.
Public library lending of digital books hit a new high in 2019 of 326 million ebooks, audiobooks and digital magazines — a 20% overall rise compared with the previous year.
BookBub have just revealed the ‘most successful BookBub Ads campaigns’ from the past year, which is always fascinating as you don’t often get to see the inside facts and figures on other people’s campaigns.
Kobo owner Rakuten has sold off its library distribution platform OverDrive to global investment firm KKR in a surprise deal concluded on Christmas Eve.
Amazon has now added France, Italy and Spain to the list of countries covered by its advertising scheme for KDP authors.
Germany has moved to cut back the tax charged on ebooks from 19% to 7% — a fall of 63%. The ebook tax rate is now at the same level of tax charged on print books in Germany.
The Kindle Unlimited KENP rate for November 2019 rose strongly by 6.5% to $0.0049 from $0.0046 in both October and September, while the KDP Select Global fund rose by $100,000 to $26.1 million from $26 million in October.
Best-selling crime thiller author Lisa Regan has signed a new deal with her publisher Bookouture which covers eight new books in her Detective Josie Quinn series to be published at the rate of three a year.
Self-published authors swept through the Unputdownable category in Amazon Charts Review of the Year in Books.
Ebook distributor Smashwords is launching a new scheme called Smashwords Presales, which might sound just like pre-orders but is a way of allowing readers to actually buy and read a new book before the public release date.
Ebook subscription service Scribd has picked up $58 million in new equity financing which it says will be used for growth, product innovation and enhance operations.
International digital book distributor StreetLib has widened its range of partners for audiobooks by teaming up with Audiobooks.com, Kobo audiobooks, and South American specialist Ubook.