One of the most important aspects of ebook metadata is assigning BISAC codes, also known as picking categories for your book, and a new company is offering a free classification service which takes just seconds to assign a category to your book.
Brave new app from Rosetta Books
Ebook backlist publisher Rosetta Books has launched an app for Android and iOS devices with access to nearly 100 of its bestselling and newly released titles.
70% of library users want self-published books in their library
Up to 70% of library users want self-published titles to be available in their libraries and a new initiative from the company behind Library Journal aims to help authors in the library sector.
Barnes & Noble shuts down hardware store in Nook link-up with Samsung
It's the end of the road for Nook's own hardware as Barnes & Noble is teaming up with Samsung to produce the Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 Nook tablet.
Time travel comedy wins The Guardian Legend first self-published award
Dinosaurs and Prime Numbers by Tom Moran is the first winner of The Guardian and Legend Press's new monthly prize for self-published authors.
Indie press behind £30,000 Baileys Prize winner
The original edition of this year's winner of the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction was published by a small independent press.
My Free WordPress book hits No 1 in Web Site Design Kindle category
I'm running a free promotion this week for my book, Free WordPress, The illustrated guide to how to set up a great WordPress site quickly and easily for free, and it's hit No 1 in the Web Site Design Kindle category on its first promotion day on Amazon.com.
Tablet torrent to turn the tide to triple ebook sales
Massive growth in tablet ownership over the next four years will bring about a sea-change in the book market with ebooks toppling print books in terms of revenue by 2018.
Apple builds iBooks into new iOS and adds ‘family-sharing’ deal
Apple is pre-installing iBooks on its new mobile iOS 8 operating system and will allow up to six family members to share books, music, TV shows, films and apps.
Self-published authors get a shot at $50,000 book prizes
Self-published authors are eligible for three new lucrative literary awards set up by Kirkus Reviews offering $50,000 in each of three categories.
Checking out the FlightDeck checker for epub files
Epub is meant to be a standard but has many variants which can cause problems, but a new, easy-to-use epub checker promises to end frustrations and tell users if a file will be accepted by the major ebook retailers.