Audiobooks: Limited Return on Investment for the Indie Author?
Audio is considered a major growth area for publishing, but is the opportunity mainly for traditional publishers?
Day: April 6, 2016
Trade Shows and Authors: Another Year of Trying to Get Along
We’re again in the awkward season in which the industry tries to accommodate independent authors at events that were simply not created to include them.
Over the Reader’s Shoulder: Reactions to Jellybooks Analytics
Our piece on Andrew Rhomberg’s reader-analytics testing in the last edition of The Hot Sheet drew some questions from readers.
On the List: The Baller
The Baller is a standalone romance novel that spent three consecutive weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and was a number-one bestseller on Amazon.
Choose Your Estimates: Ebook Sales Numbers Are “Known Unknowns”
We don’t know how many ebooks are sold in the main two digital markets, the UK and US.
Selling Successfully on Kobo: Insights from Mark Lefebvre
Last week, Joanna Penn’s podcast featured an interview with Mark Lefebvre, director of self-publishing and author relations at Kobo.
Closing Image: April 6, 2016
The VIDA count for the New Yorker shows that, in 2015, women represented 33.8 percent of bylines in the magazine.
Links of Interest: April 6, 2016
Another bestselling indie author has launched a romance publishing company. Marie Force recently announced the formation of Jack’s House Publishing, saying, “I had all the players already in place after four years of running my Formatting Fairies business, which I founded in 2012 to help other authors publish their books. The publishing arm is a natural outgrowth … Read more
Hot Sheet Index: April 6, 2016
A snapshot of current industry data.