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Choosing The Right Distributor: Smashwords vs Draft2Digital 27 Aug 2013 | 03:57 pm
Since I started self-publishing in 2011, Smashwords has been the overwhelming favorite for savvy self-publishers who wanted or needed a distributor to reach non-Amazon e-bookstores. However, a new com...
Word on the Street Festival Doesn’t Care About Author Scam 8 Aug 2013 | 03:48 pm
I wrote a post last month about Author Solutions’ relationships with The Bookseller magazine in the UK, and The Word on the Street Festival in Canada. Since then I’ve been in touch with the editor of...
Giving It All Away – An Interview with Ted Oswald 2 Aug 2013 | 09:51 pm
Back in April, I stumbled across a wonderful novel called Because We Are: A Novel of Haiti by Ted Oswald. I think I was only half-way through when I started hunting him down on the internet to tell hi...
Penguin Random House Merger Helps Author Solutions Exploit Writers 16 Jul 2013 | 06:46 pm
Penguin and Random House officially merged on July 1 creating the largest trade publisher in the world. This merger has given fresh impetus to one of their subsidiaries to scam unsuspecting writers – ...
5 Book Marketing Myths You Need To Forget – Guest Post by Joanna Penn 8 Jul 2013 | 05:06 pm
Anyone familiar with Joanna Penn’s blog – The Creative Penn – will know what an excellent resource it is for writers, particularly on marketing, where she regularly offers no-nonsense advice that actu...
How To Avoid Publishing-Assisted Suicide 30 Jun 2013 | 04:22 pm
An Amazon Top 100 with 25,000 sales in the first 6 weeks after its release in Oct 2012. Also a B&N Top 100 in May 2013. A brand new book by international bestselling author Jennifer Blake, first publi...
The Alliance of Independent Authors – a Q&A with Orna Ross 24 Jun 2013 | 10:47 pm
When I cover publishers behaving badly, self-publishing scams, or authors’ rights, I always get asked if there is an organization which advocates for self-publishers. The general feeling seems to be ...
The Bookseller Hires Author Solutions Exec To Spout Propaganda 6 Jun 2013 | 04:35 pm
Author Solutions is like a Bizarro version of King Midas. Everything they touch turns to shit. One frustrating aspect of this is their history of co-opting supposedly independent organizations, which ...
The Bookseller Hires Author Solutions Exec To Spout Propaganda 6 Jun 2013 | 04:35 pm
Author Solutions is like a Bizarro version of King Midas. Everything they touch turns to shit. One frustrating aspect of this is their history of co-opting supposedly independent organizations, which...
Have You Read A Good Book Lately? 5 Jun 2013 | 05:26 pm
Like many readers, I get my book recommendations from multiple sources: friends, peers, genre bestseller lists, Amazon algorithms, and deal sites. The latter two are sources new to me since I switche...
