The Joffe Books Prize 2022 for diverse voices in crime fiction has opened for entries with the winner getting £1,000 and a two-book publishing deal.
The 2022 UK Kindle Storyteller UK contest is now open and accepting entries for this year's award featuring a top prize of £20,000.
The KDP Select All Stars Bonus program will expand to all KDP Kindle Unlimited marketplaces in May and to more books in existing marketplaces.
Kindle Unlimited payouts to authors are continuing to be backed by a strong rising trend in the KDP Select Global Fund which increased to $41.4 million in March 2022 from $39.4 million in February 2022.
Five out of the six authors shortlisted in the romance category for this year's Kobo Emerging Writer Prize are self-published.
The February 2022 Kindle Vella bonus increased to $775,000 from $725,000 in January 2022 and Amazon has extended payment to authors for free episodes to July 2022.
Kindle Unlimited payouts followed the usual trend seen in February each year as the KDP Select Global Fund fell back to $39.4 million from the $42.9 million seen in January 2022.
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.