Whether you’re self-publishing or you went the traditional route, you’ve likely been told that you need to have a blog and a website. But, if you’re like a lot of authors, independent and otherwise, you don’t get many visitors to your site.
Leaning a little about search engine optimization or SEO can help.
SE-what, you ask? Some [...]

Readability is a service which turns web pages into a clutter-free reading mode. In times when more and more people suffer from Internet distractions it seems to be helpful solution for readers – as well as writers – of web content.
I’ve covered Readability a couple of times already. In this post I’ll list ways in [...]

This looks promising – a  Kickstarter, but only for books.  Or: a kind of Authonomy, but where people actually put down money instead of votes.
The process is simple. Just as it’s done in the publishing world, we ask authors to submit ten pages and a summary of their book. We then let you [...]

Recently Amazon added to Kindle Store a new, very useful feature – Look Inside. It is the same feature as Look Inside for printed editions but it’s showing the content of the relevant Kindle book. More details about the this functionality you can find in this post and now I’d like to focus on how [...]

This past week I wrote a column for the blog, ‘Starved Writer’, on the topic of innovations in eBook technology and already I have to take back my words  My column posted just days before the newest innovation in eBook technology went viral.  My bad.  Kindlegraph, developed  by Evan Jacobs on the DocuSign platform is [...]

Raise your hand if you’re guilty…
I’m raising my hand, both actually, because I’m totally, 100% guilty…
…of wanting free stuff. Free gift with purchase? I’m so there! Free samples at Sams? Get in line. Free reads? You know it!
I’ve discovered an awesome way to share digital content with readers in a way that doesn’t cost them a dime and yet [...]

Authors need to know about book publishing, especially if they intend to have their books published. Going into publishing your book based on perceived misconceptions is what leads to mistakes that can sometimes be costly in dollars and your book’s success. Trying to get your book released without learning anything about publishing is like trying [...]

I’ve been using Spotify pretty religiously recently, and it’s amazing.  So amazing that it sort of seems like it should be illegal.  What is Spotify? If you’ve ever used iTunes, it’s like that, but with access to everyone else’s iTunes library at once – including your own.  Yep, it’s like having access to all of [...]

I don’t have any direct experience with Smith Publicity, but it’s nice to see this as part of their manifesto:
Over the last ten years, self-publishing has evolved from what was stigmatized as amateurish endeavor to an increasingly accepted and exciting form of publishing. The industry has enjoyed a revolution of [...]

If you’ve got a blog, you’re probably familiar with what it takes to format for the Kindle.  If a tag like <em> is totally unfamiliar to you, it’ll be a bit harder to get up to speed, but HTML code is actually not as complicated as it looks – especially as it pertains to a [...]