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SPR Partners With BookBaby’s BookPromo

SPR is proud to today announce a partnership with BookBaby!

BookPromo, a set of promo tools that come free with every BookBaby publishing package, today announced the expansion of “BookPromo to be an even more powerful promotional tool”, reaching thousands of targeted readers with incredibly affordable advertising.

BookBaby is the sister site of CDBaby.

BookBaby offers you the largest eBook distribution network, including Amazon, Apple, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, and many other popular retailers in over 170 countries around the globe.

BookPromo offers every BookBaby author a 10-question interview in partnership with Self-Publishing Review, guaranteed to be seen […]

Cate Baum2014-06-26T16:46:23+02:00June 26th, 2014|Categories: News|

Shelf Unbound Opens Up Book Competition for Self-Publishers

Shelf Unbound and Bowker have a new book competition for self-publishers.

Shelf Unbound book review magazine announces the Shelf Unbound Writing Competition for Best Independently Published Book, sponsored by Bowker. Any independently published book in any genre is eligible for entry. Entry fee is $40 per book. The winning entry will be selected by the editors of Shelf Unbound magazine.

“Independently Published” books include self-published books and e-books (such as those published through CreateSpace, Lulu.com, iUniverse, etc.) and/or books and e-books published through small presses releasing less than five titles per year. Books entered in last year’s competition are

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Henry Baum2017-03-24T07:35:38+02:00June 14th, 2014|Categories: News|Tags: Competitions|

Self-Publishing Boosts Sales 79% in the U.K.

Via the Guardian and Neilsen:

Self-published books’ share of the UK market grew by 79% in 2013, with 18m self-published books bought by UK readers last year, according to new statistics.

With print sales falling by 10% last year, and book purchasing as a whole down 4%, ebook sales continue to grow, according to Nielsen’s comprehensive tracking of book purchases, up 20% in the UK in 2013, with 80m ebooks bought by UK consumers, to a value of £300m. But it is the DIY market which is showing the most eye-watering growth, up 79% to 18m self-published titles purchased,

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Henry Baum2014-06-13T12:12:53+02:00June 13th, 2014|Categories: News|

Smashwords Adds Daily Reporting for Book Sales

One of the more cumbersome interfaces on Smashwords is its reporting of book sales. Unlike KDP, which has a very obvious interface, it’s possible to miss Smashwords reporting page entirely. Given that it has been updated intermittently, it wasn’t always necessary to access the page even if you know it was there. Smashwords has now solved that. Via the Smashwords blog:

Smashwords today added daily sales reporting and interactive charting for sales at iBooks, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, OverDrive and the Smashwords store.

The reports include daily and total order accumulation numbers for iBooks preorders.

The reports provide authors

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Henry Baum2014-06-12T09:46:14+02:00June 11th, 2014|Categories: News|Tags: Smashwords|

Apple’s iOS 8 Will Come Pre-Loaded with eBooks

Via Smashwords, which calls this a “Game Changer for eBook Retailing,” Apple’s new mobile operating system is going to come pre-loaded with the iBooks store app. What this means is that people who maybe weren’t so ebook friendly are going to have ebooks as part of the billion iPhones and iPads currently floating around.

Buried in a slide during the live demo event referenced as “iOS 8 features we didn’t have time to talk about” was an ebook retailing bombshell: iBooks will come pre-installed on iOS 8.

The iBooks app is Apple’s ebook store. Inside that app is

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Henry Baum2014-06-03T16:00:39+02:00June 3rd, 2014|Categories: News|Tags: Smashwords|

Publisher’s Weekly Releases Booklife for Indie Authors

Interesting development, via Galleycat, Publisher’s Weekly has created a self-publishing portal called Booklife.

About

BookLife is a website from Publishers Weekly dedicated to indie authors. The site provides a free and easy way to submit self-published books to Publishers Weekly for review, and offers editorial content — success stories, interviews, author profiles, how-to pieces, news, and features — geared toward aid indie authors achieve their goals. Whether an author is focused on writing and editing, art and design, or marketing and distribution, BookLife has valuable resources that can help along the way.

Mission

BookLife goals is to help

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Henry Baum2017-03-24T07:33:38+02:00May 30th, 2014|Categories: News|

Self-E Connects Libraries and Self-Publishers

A new, yet-to-be-launched service will (finally) get self-publishers’ books in the hands of librarians. Via Library Journal:

SELF-e is an innovative collaboration between Library Journal and BiblioBoard that enables authors and libraries to work together to expose notable self-published ebooks to voracious readers looking to discover something new.

If selected via Library Journal’s SELF-e curation process, the author’s ebooks will become part of a unique discovery platform for participating public libraries across the United States that enables patrons to read ebooks on any device, at any time. This free service is available to all self-published authors, no matter

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Henry Baum2014-05-20T13:18:21+02:00May 20th, 2014|Categories: News|

The Alliance of Independent Authors Petition for Self-Publishers

The Alliance of Independent Authors has set up a Change.org campaign advocating for self-publisher’s rights. Here’s the letter to sign:

To:
Libraries
American Booksellers Association
UK Booksellers Association
Canadian Booksellers Association
Australian Booksellers Association
Literary Festivals & Events
Book Reviewers & Reviews

I, and the Alliance of Independent Authors, urge you to find ways to include self-publishing writers as a matter of priority.

As you know, more and more writers are turning to self-publishing and many such authors are producing work of proven value to readers.

While recognising that there are challenges in incorporating such writers, it has become a

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