Should Authors Be Using Medium? Short Answer: Probably Not
Medium’s ever-shifting business model and policies make it a risky platform for authors seeking to build a reliable following or monetize content
Author Income
Freelance writers get exemptions under California’s AB5 law
Initially, the law capped a freelancer’s contributions to the same publication at 35 pieces; beyond that, they’d be considered an employee.
When Your Book Releases, Will It Be Available? Publishers Deal with Uncertainty in Both Supply and Demand
Ingram is seeing publishers use fewer offset print runs, more digital short runs, and POD as the backup for everything.
PublishDrive extends the functionality of Abacus
Abacus, a royalty tracker, can now accept sales reports from IngramSpark, Draft2Digital, Kobo, Google, and Apple Books.
PublishingPaidMe goes viral as authors reveal book advances
On Saturday night, author LL McKinney called on white authors to reveal their book advances on Twitter using the hashtag #PublishingPaidMe.
New Authors Guild survey: majority of respondents have seen income decline
These declines are primarily due to a loss of speaking engagements and freelance journalism assignments.
Coronavirus Update: April 29, 2020
Coronavirus update includes global efforts continuing to mitigate—or reverse—losses and hardships during pandemic.
How Much Will Author Earnings Decline? It’s a Wait-and-See Situation.
The most blatant threat to fiscal stability for self-publishing authors has so far come from Barnes & Noble via ebook distributors.
Barnes & Noble is running late on royalty payments
Yesterday, the ebook distributor Draft2Digital sent a notice to all of its authors that, due to delays from Barnes & Noble, royalties for B&N February sales may be missing from monthly payments. So far, the payment delay appears connected to the store’s shift to remote operation, rather than to cash-flow issues. Draft2Digital says that as … Read more
To Pitch or Not to Pitch: It’s a Strange Time to Be Submitting or Acquiring Work
Even though agents and editors may be attempting to conduct business as usual, the coronavirus undoubtedly affects acquisitions.