Well, I won’t pretend this month’s index pretty much blew me away. In the three years The Independent Publishing Magazine has been providing this index, I’ve never experienced such a collective downturn by so many self-publishing services at once. I had to run the statistics a number of times over the past few hours to make sure…
Vook Launch eBook Creation Platform
The good news today is that the Vook ebook creation platform came out of beta and went fully live. The cloud-based publishing platform will allow both authors and publishers to distribute ebooks through Vook to Amazon, Apple’s iBookstore and Barnes & Noble. Certainly the strengths of the new Vook platform is the facility to distribute…
Smashwords: Smashwords Introduces New Ebook Gifting Feature
Smashwords: Smashwords Introduces New Ebook Gifting Feature: Smashwords yesterday released a new ebook gifting feature. Because Smashwords books are available in multiple ebook formats, our books are… Related articles Smashwords Introduces New Ebook Gifting Feature (smashwords.com) On Smashwords and Amazon (joleenenaylor.wordpress.com) How to Self-Publish an Ebook with Smashwords: 31 Authors Share Their Tips and Tricks…
The Literary Agent’s Indie Ebook Roadmap – How Literary Agents Can Survive in The Digital Age | Mark Coker – Smashwords
Smashwords founder Mark Coker shares his views on how he believes literary agent can survive in the age of digital publishing by producing the “The Literary Agent’s Indie Ebook Roadmap” slideshow. The Literary Agent’s Indie Ebook Roadmap View more presentations from Smashwords, Inc. Related articles The Literary Agent’s Indie Ebook Roadmap (smashwords.com) Hard Wired For…
Smashwords Founder – Mark Coker | Upon the Gears of Big Publishing
Smashwords: Upon the Gears of Big Publishing Smashwords founder Mark Coker shares some of his address and presentation at Berkeley University to the ASJA (American Association of Journalists and Authors). And spirited words they were… “The Big Publisher gatekeeper-as-curator is being replaced by readers, as it should be. My challenge to you, the author, is to…
Borders US: What we hear and need to hear
Today was one of those days at the office. You know the ones. Nothing seems to stir beyond the hum-drum, and then, all of a sudden, the floodgates open. No. Today’s news that the economic doctor – with defibrillator in hand – had finally glanced up at the clock and called the ‘time of death’…
E-Books: The Tipping Point? « Catherine, Caffeinated
E-Books: The Tipping Point? « Catherine, Caffeinated: “Ten months ago I uploaded Mousetrapped to Smashwords and what was then called Amazon’s Digital Text Platform (DTP) – now Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) – almost as an afterthought. I was looking for something to do while I waited for my Createspace proof copy to arrive. Turns out…
Smashwords Puts Authors and Publishers in Control of Pricing
Smashwords: Smashwords Puts Authors and Publishers in Control of Pricing “Our authors and publishers spoke (and some wrote, screamed, begged and politely asked), and we listened. Effective today, all Smashwords retailers are pricing Smashwords books at the price set by the author or publisher. No more discounting. It also means we have significantly increased the…
Smashwords and Wattpad Form Integrated Partnership
Smashwords, an ebook publishing and distribution platform, has announced an integrated and cross-promotional partnership with Wattpad, an online ebook community. The partnership will allow Smashwords users to promote their ebooks through Wattpad and Wattpad users will now be able to sell their completed ebooks through Smashwords distribution channels. Overall, this seems a natural partnership with…
Book View Cafe Partner With Smashwords
One of the more interesting developments in the world of independent publishing is the rising popularity of what are described as book or writer cooperatives. These are not just random workshop collectives of writers from across the literary and film world, but often comprise of serious and professional writers independently-minded with clear career objectives. Two…