To All Readers, contributors, and friends I love taking time around the holidays to look back over the year that’s coming to an end. And what do I find? More good fortune in the people who I have the pleasure and the honor to work with, collaborate with, speak...
Last week we introduced our new Amazon Success Toolkit, a collection of guidelines and productivity tools for publishers using CreateSpace, Kindle Direct Publishing, or Audible, all portals for Amazon. The response has been impressive, and I can see why. Keeping track...
Is there any subject that excites so many emotions in indie authors than Amazon? From its ever-changing programs for self-publishers to its shifting positions on book reviews, Amazon is both the democratic gateway to the biggest market of book buyers in the world, and...
Authors have responded with enthusiasm to the availability of great new tools for publishing their own work, and that makes a lot of sense. Now the indie author community is made up of writers who had never published before, writers who had previously published with...
Although we’ve been able to wrangle Microsoft Word into producing great-looking print and ebooks, authors have faced quite a challenge if they want to produce picture books for the Kindle and other eReaders. But is a Kindle picture book template the solution to...