Century has won a "hotly contested" five-way auction for a self-published title, Wool,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
John Locke found fame as the first self-published author to sell one million Kindle ebooks. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-03-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bringing to the marketplace has always been a struggle for emerging writers, but the evolution of digital publishing formats is seeing a new wave of authors skipping the print medium entirely. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2012-03-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Self-publishing an essay through Amazon is a reminder of the benefits of a traditional publishing house. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Atlantic | 2012-03-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jackie Collins is going into self-publishing, with plans to release an ebook version of The... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-02-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
As much as a quarter of fiction ebooks sold in the UK could be from self-published writers, as... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bestselling author Rosamund Lupton has hailed self-published authors at an event to mark half a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-02-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Self-published crime writer Kerry Wilkinson claimed the top spot in the UK Kindle bestseller... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-02-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
A non-profit body representing the interests of self-published authors will launch this spring... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-02-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publishers need to look to how self-published authors price their ebooks, improve the quality of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Apple has announced a new multimedia app called iBooks Author, allowing writers to create their... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Wed, 09/11/2011 - 12:25 Faber Academy has launched a three-day self-publishing course, with Faber Academy director Jason Cooper saying that it does not represent a conflict of interests for the publisher. The course, "Bring Your Book to Market",... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-11-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Mon, 03/10/2011 - 08:01 US independent publisher Perseus Books Group has launched a distribution and marketing service for authors wanting to self-publish their own ebooks, offering a 70% royalty rate to the author. read more Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-10-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
David Steinberger of Perseus, which will offer distribution and marketing to authors. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2011-10-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Mon, 12/09/2011 - 15:41 Gollancz is hoping to reignite interest in the adventure game books of the 1980s after buying two books by a self-published author. Editor Marcus Gipps bought world rights to two books in the DestinyQuest series by Michael J... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-09-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Mon, 20/06/2011 - 14:31 John Locke has become the first self-published author to sell more than one million ebooks through Amazon. The author used Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing platform to publish and sell his titles. He joins Stieg Larsson,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-06-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Tue, 24/05/2011 - 09:38 Pan Macmillan has bought UK and Commonwealth rights (including ebooks) to seven books by self-published US sensation Amanda Hocking. Julie Crisp, editorial director at Tor, bought the rights from St Martin's Press in the United... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-05-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Tue, 17/05/2011 - 08:15 Corvus has acquired seven books from self-published author Nick Alexander, whose title The Missing Boyfriend was in the top 10 in the Kindle paid-for charts for six weeks. Senior editor Laura Palmer bought world English... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-05-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amanda Hocking, the 26-year-old author who shot to fame by selling more than a million copies of her self-published books, has signed a deal with St. Martin's Press. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2011-03-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amanda Hocking, the darling of the self-publishing world who has sold more than 900,000 copies of nine books in the last year, has been shopping a four-book series to major publishers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2011-03-21 00:00:00 UTC ]