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What is the Amazon Search Inside the Book program? Do I need it and how do I join it?

The Amazon Search Inside the Book program is a free program that provides a preview of your book on the Amazon site that is designed to entice buyers to purchase your book by letting them browse it as they would in a physical bookstore. The pages of the book appear with watermarks on them to [...]

Publishing on Amazon’s Kindle: Author Gregory Bernard Banks shares his insights & experience

As regular readers of The Whine Seller know, I like to write from personal experience. So, with publishing on Amazon’s Kindle getting a lot of attention lately, I realized I wasn’t going to be able to give this topic the attention it deserved since I have not yet published anything on the platform. Instead, I [...]

Amazon gives Authors (self-published or not) a chance to promote themselves with Author Stores

The most exciting new renouncement out of Amazon right now for authors is Author Stores (BETA). These new launch pages allow authors to build a page around their published works, giving them an easy to market single page that shows all of their works rather than having to rely on buyer finding it through search. [...]

Lulu.com loses NaNoWriMo partnership to Amazon’s CreateSpace

Right on the heels of the Nickelodeon partnership, CreateSpace has scored another partnership coup.
NaNoWriMo is short for National Novel Writing Month, a month long free to enter contest held every November where writers try to write an entire novel (of a minimum 50,000 words) in 30 days. The contest is in its 10th years [...]