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This Week in Indie Publishing
Don Massenzio Want to Turn Your Comic Book Idea Into a Million-Dollar Business? Here’s the First Step Comic books are kind of a big deal these days. Total revenue for the comic book publishing industry in 2018was estimated to be $865 million, and that’s not counting peripheral sources of income from merchandise, or high-profile movie […]
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Don Massenzio If Your Protagonist is a Person of Color Your Book Cover Might Get Whitewashed The old phrase is that you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but if that were true a significant chunk of the marketing industry wouldn’t exist. We absolutely judge books by their covers, and when it’s a question […]
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Don Massenzio What is it like being a first-time novelist today? – books podcast In some ways, it has never been easier to become an author – but in others, it has never been harder. While self-publishing, blogging and crowdfunding have opened up opportunities, there are also unprecedented financial pressures that determine who can and […]
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Don Massenzio Behind the New York Times Best-Seller (‘Not Best-Reviewed’) Lists In an effort to shed more light on how we work, The Times is running a series of short posts explaining some of our journalistic practices.Here, the New York Times best-seller lists staff answers frequently asked questions about how the lists are put together, […]
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Don Massenzio Traditional publishers’ ebook sales drop as indie authors and Amazon take off BigStock Photo Ebook sales are dying. Ebooks are insanely popular. If the short definition of cognitive dissonance is holding two contradictory ideas to be true, ebooks are about as dissonant as digital content gets. Yet ebooks may also represent a chapter in the […]
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Don Massenzio Amazon Has Filed Suit To Stop The Six-Figure ‘Book Stuffing’ Kindle Scam Some self-publishers slip entire books into the back of their latest ebook, taking a larger chunk of that month’s royalty fund as a result — as much as $100,000 per month. Last Tuesday, an Amazon subsidiary filed suit in federal court seeking […]
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Don Massenzio These two indie platforms are partnering to help authors produce audiobooks at affordable prices 1 Indie authors who publish through platforms like Amazon or CreateSpace usually don’t have the resources to publish an audiobook, which can be an expensive endeavor with production costs that self-published or first-time authors cannot afford. Now, self-publishing platform […]
Indie Publishing News
Don Massenzio hat Amazon’s Mysterious 50% Royalty ‘Error’ Says About Self-Publishing Adam Rowe Pictured: a self-publisher, books. Not in that order.Authors using Kindle Direct Publishing, Amazon’s e-book publishing unit, were given a shock when they turned to their KDP dashboards on January 9: A “50%” royalty rate had appeared between the normal 35% and 70% on […]
Indie Author/Publishing News
Don Massenzio Here is a compilation of some of the indie author/publishing stories for this week. Learning to read in the time of ‘self-publishing’ Oklahoma Career Novelist, Norma Jean Lutz says: “Self-Publishing is not for the Faint of Heart” Episodic Publishing is Back in Vogue Meet Mark Dawson, the literary sensation you’ve never heard of […]
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