Browsing the archives for the self-published tag

Amazon ups the royalty rate for Kindle publishers to 70%

This goes out to all those people who sit there on the Amazon forums and complain about how expensive Kindle books are.
Previously, Amazon was only giving the publisher (which can also mean the author if it is a self-published book) 35% of the sales price. So if your book was, say, $1, the profits [...]

For the writers in your life, give the gift of editing this holiday season (no, seriously!)

Your friend is a writer. You love your friend and you want to support their interests, but you don’t know what their specific plans are. After all, a gift subscription to Writer’s Market only works if they are planning to look for an agent and maybe your friend wants to self-publish. In the same vein, [...]

Your self-publishing questions answered

I often receive emails from people asking me to call them and teach them how to get started with eBay or publishing. While I’m not quite sure why these people think I would want to call a random stranger, I always try to reply to these queries in some form. My answer is always the [...]

Amazon’s Author Stores and Pages program gives authors a bigger presence on the site

Back on January 22nd, 2009, I wrote a post about Amazon Author Stores which are also called Amazon Author Pages. In the interest of writing about them, I applied for my very own Author Page that very day. I had, frankly, forgotten all about the program until today when I got an email from Amazon [...]