JA Konrath (this site can’t seem to get enough of him recently) has an interesting and encouraging post listing 20 self-publishers who are as successful on the Kindle as writers from mainstream publishers.  These are: Primal Wound by Ruth Francisco, ranked #688 Thin Blood by Vicki Tyley, ranked #14 Deed to Death by D.B. Henson, [...]

The Apple iPad has now gone the Kindle dtp route and now users can upload a book directly to the iBooks store without having to use a third-party distributor, like Smashwords (which I still advocate because of all of the other places it distributes to). Via MacLife: Apple sent us an e-mail today with details [...]

Today’s must-read.  Garrison Keillor signals the death of publishing and the birth of…something else: And if you want to write, you just write and publish yourself. No need to ask permission, just open a Web site. And if you want to write a book, you just write it, send it to Lulu.com or BookSurge at [...]

Cross-posted at my blog as well. I saw a post on the Kindle forums asking “Will Amazon offer free to Kindle users, the hardcovers they have purchased?” and the obvious answer is no, since it’s not Amazon’s decision. Books you buy are not just the words of a story, no matter how ideal that would [...]

An interview with Vicki Hopkins, author of The Price of Innocence.  See how you can fill out this interview here. 1. How did you come to self-publish? Did you try to get published traditionally? My first self-publishing experience was in May of 2009, when I published a popular blog – Lessons From the Phantom of [...]

This post about my novel potentially being pirated made me look into book piracy and freebooks and just how this will affect the future of self-publishing and publishing on the whole.  Check out this endlessly fascinating interview with a bittorrent book pirate. He justifies it this way: 1) With digital copies, what is “stolen” is [...]

So a CD-ROM version of my novel showed up on Amazon a day after I placed the book on Feedbooks and Manybooks.  It’s listed as published by “The Again Shop” so be on the lookout.  A Google search just came up with other examples of this. The novel is protected by a Creative Commons No [...]

Amid all of the discussion about the multiple ‘walled gardens’ being set up to push DRM-ed ebooks to devices, a Paris-based team have been steadily building a system to push books anywhere and shipping more books than Apple in the process. Of course, the books are free so the comparison is dodgy, but let’s put [...]

As someone who’s been critical of JA Konrath, who basically sees the only good self-publishers are the ones who make a living at it, it’s somewhat strange to come to his defense for this Publisher’s Weekly piece about his recent deal with Amazon Encore (covered here on SPR).  Nevermind the number crunching in the post, [...]

Over the past few weeks I have refined my opinions on the paid-publishing model offered by mainstream publishers in light of its newest entity, Balboa Press from Hay House Publishing. So far, three of the paid-publishing imprints we have looked at in the past year had one common denominator—Author Solutions (ASI). I do not believe [...]