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Matthias Matting: Tolino to offer top indie authors bookstore exposure
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Who's afraid of self-publishing? #authorsay
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#FutureChat Recap: #AuthorSay -- but which #authors do?
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Self-publishing Jasinda Wilder in 7-figure deal with PRH's Berkley
Jasinda Wilder is the latest of the "indie bestsellers" to achieve a major traditional publishing deal , in this case for three books. The announcement...Image:
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Are publishers getting the #authorsay message?
This article was originally written as the walkup to our Friday, 10th April, #FutureChat discussion. Join The Bookseller's The FutureBook #FutureChat each Friay at 4...Image:
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Should authors write without pay?
From anyone else, the advice might sound like right-headed rationality, itself. But as the author Roxana Robinson (pictured) can tell you, when you're the president...Image:
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Data-Dancing: How big is self-publishing?
'Shock and awe.' I'm here with the same question asked by my colleague, Bookseller editor Philip Jones in his companion piece to this one: How...Image:
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How big is self-publishing - the results
Last week FutureBook asked, how big is the self-publishing market ? The simple answer is that only Amazon knows. The more complex answer is that...Image:
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Jim Hinks: Reader analytics as a self-editing tool
"I expect that many writers will find this unnerving...." Comma Press' Jim Hinks' new platform is going to show everyone where people stopped reading those...Image:
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The Amazon birthday party
Gift receipt: Prices will be hidden on the receipt On the occasion of its 20th birthday, The Bookseller would like to wish Amazon and its...Image:
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Matthias Matting: Surveying Germany's digital indie scene
Long understood as forming a third and growing market in self-publishing, German-language indie authors again will find programming at Frankfurt Book Fair in October, and...Image:
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A manifesto for author-publisher relations
Our first #FutureBook15 response comes from the author Diana Kimpton and it's a deft example of Jones' interest in "a series of ideas, proposals and/or...Image:
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Is 'out of print' running out of time?
Never being 'out of print' is not good news You can't self-publish. Because you can't get your rights back. And your book is nowhere to...Image:
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When rights go wrong: A #FutureChat recap
Post-Chatterie Following our #FutureChat on Is 'out of print' running out of time? , a couple of additional communications arrived, each worth note. From an...Image:
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A manifesto for self-publishing authors
"I do not ask anyone for permission to publish." The founding director of the Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), Orna Ross joined us here at...Image:
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A manifesto for authors' marketplace success
"The gold rush is over," writes Auckland-based author Gary McLaren , seeing it as a natural market phenomenon that, "the supply of new books was...Image:
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Three months, standing start to high street
"The dispiriting feeling that...the entire industry is stacked against the author." Douglas Wight isn't the first to respond by creating an imprint of his own,...Image:
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Author Earnings: Springtime for UK indie ebooks
Welcome to the UK, Author Earnings Unlike the US, where collective indie ebook earnings long ago surpassed that of all Big Five authors combined, in...Image:
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How iBooks Author is quietly winning the innovation game
Could Apple be stealing a quiet march on Amazon? Bradley Metrock, executive producer of the iBooks Author Conference, believes that the future of digital books...Image:
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Why 2016 is the year for the Arthur C. Clarke Award to embrace self-published...
Last night the director of the Arthur C. Clarke Award Tom Hunter announced that, as of next year, the award will be open to self-published...Image:
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