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Brandon Sanderson distributes his audio on Spotify, not Audible

January 4, 2023 by Jane Friedman

Sanderson ran the most successful Kickstarter in history last year for four “secret” novels that will be self-published.

Categories Audio, Self-Publishing Tags Audible, audiobooks, Hot Shots, Spotify

New tool for self-publishing authors: Amazon attribution links

December 21, 2022December 21, 2022 by Jane Friedman

Indie author Nicholas Erik calls it “nothing short of a marketing gamechanger.”

Categories Amazon, Self-Publishing, Tools and Services Tags advertising, Trailblazes

Book Visibility on Amazon Has Changed (for Now)

December 7, 2022December 7, 2022 by Jane Friedman

Amazon has new category ranking limitations; whether these changes are intentional or a glitch remains unclear

Categories Amazon, Self-Publishing Tags KDP

Draft2Digital authors can now sell in the Smashwords store

December 7, 2022 by Jane Friedman

To get started, Draft2Digital authors need only login to their account.

Categories Self-Publishing, Tools and Services Tags draft2digital, Smashwords, Trailblazes

Tor will publish print editions of Brandon Sanderson’s Kickstarter Novels

November 28, 2022November 23, 2022 by Jane Friedman

Tor announced release dates for “commercial editions” of the four novels that Sanderson first offered through his Kickstarter campaign.

Categories Self-Publishing, Traditional Publishing Tags Hot Shots, Kickstarter

IngramSpark dramatically improves sales reporting dashboard

October 26, 2022October 26, 2022 by Jane Friedman

If you rarely check your IngramSpark sales because it’s a huge pain to pull a report and view data, it’s time to rejoice.

Categories Self-Publishing Tags Hot Shots, Ingram

Self-Publishing Sales Collectively Represent a Whole Other Penguin Random House

October 26, 2022October 26, 2022 by Jane Friedman

Executives from Wattpad Webtoon Studios and Rakuten Kobo discuss the hard-to-measure but growing audience for independently published ebooks and digital serializations.

Categories Industry Research, Self-Publishing Tags ebooks, Frankfurt Book Fair, serialization

New effort underway to measure self-publishing book sales

October 12, 2022October 12, 2022 by Jane Friedman

The Big Indie Data Drop is a collaboration between the Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), Draft2Digital, K-lytics, and Written Word Media.

Categories Self-Publishing Tags Trailblazes

Draft2Digital expands international print support

October 4, 2022September 28, 2022 by Jane Friedman

Draft2Digital has improved the ability for its authors outside the US to order author copies of their books without paying high shipping fees.

Categories Self-Publishing Tags draft2digital, Trailblazes

Be aware: scam solicitations see an uptick

September 12, 2022August 17, 2022 by Jane Friedman

As self-publishing has proliferated, indie authors have increasingly become the target of illegitimate and fraudulent solicitations.

Categories Self-Publishing Tags Hot Shots
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