Review: Adventure Inward: A Risk Taker’s Book of Quotes by Jonathan Wunrow
The Alliance of Independent Authors Petition for Self-Publishers
[…]To:
Libraries
American Booksellers Association
UK Booksellers Association
Canadian Booksellers Association
Australian Booksellers Association
Literary Festivals & Events
Book Reviewers & ReviewsI, 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
Review: What if Tomorrow Never Comes? by Neil David Schwartz
The Best Day to Discount a Book
Book Gorilla, an alternative to BookBub, who are actually pretty cynical about self-publishers (“We’re as tired as you are of emails stuffed with books by authors we’ve never heard of. Ho hum, who needs them?”), nonetheless has some very interesting statistics about when to discount a book.
[…]Average Estimated Daily Open Rates
- Monday – 48.21%
- Tuesday – 47.56%
- Wednesday – 48.01%
- Thursday – 47.79%
- Friday – 47.54%
- Saturday – 47.12%
- Sunday – 47.65%
But that’s not the end of the story. Although slightly fewer subscribers open their BookGorilla alerts on weekends, those that do open them are more
The Indie Author Manifesto
Courtesy of Mark Coker and Smashwords comes these by-laws:
[…]I hold these truths to be self-evident:
- I am an indie author
- I have experienced the pleasure and satisfaction that comes from self-publishing
- I have a right to publish
- My creative control is important to me. I decide when, where and how my writing graduates to become a published book.
- Indie does not mean “alone.” I choose my partners.
- I shall not bow beholden or subservient to any publisher. In my business relationships, I seek partnership, fairness, equity and mutually aligned interests.
- We indie authors comprise diverse writers unified by a
Blurb to Distribute to Amazon
Via the Telegraph:
[…]Although Amazon has sold self-published books before, this is the first time that the retailer
The Road to the Bottom: 99 Cent Box Sets
With the attention, of course, also comes the inevitable criticism: that 2012 was the year of the freebie, 2013 the year of the 99¢ book, and now 2014 is the year of the 99¢ box. All cheap marketing ploys that will devalue the written word and destroy an industry.
Pretty much. Next paragraph:
[…]Our business ledger, of course, says otherwise. Despite having built our assisted-self-publishing micropress
Podcast with Joanna Penn
Check out this nice podcast with Joanna Penn from the guys at the Self-Publishing Podcast:
[…]We started out by talking about speaking opportunities for writers (Sean and I want to get paid to speak), based around Joanna’s conveniently timed new book Public Speaking for Authors, Creatives, and Other Introverts, which you should go and pick up if you’re at all interested in speaking — whether you consider yourself an introvert or not.
(I’ve read it, so I can tell you it’s awesome. So go get it.)
Throughout the rest of the show, we talked about how to take ONE