Some people would argue otherwise, but I say that the self publishing revolution started with the introduction of the Kindle in 2007. Amazon...

 Amazon's reviewing protocol has changed over time. Amazon has always let any customer write  reviews, but now they label reviews  from ...

First, Happy Valentine's Day! I hope someone gave you a valentine. Second, if you're not familiar with ebook promotional newslett...

Santa,  in the form of my husband,  was good to me this year. I got the new Kindle Oasis for Christmas! I love this Kindle!  The screen i...

One of my most popular blog posts is from 2016, when I compared using Amazon's CreateSpace to using Barnes & Noble's Nook Pres...

UPDATE:   The links are back! It must have been a glitch. A useful marketing  took for authors is Amazon's product giveaway. Anyone wi...

The answer is, it depends. Mostly, in my experience it depends on your book. If you're self-publishing in the US, your biggest single ma...

I've been running two promotions this month, one to advertise that Turnabout is only 99¢ (for a few days only) and one to advertise that...

If you want to self-publish ebooks, you need to learn some things about ebooks. Ebooks are really just files, and in those files the underly...

So, now that I have mastered InDesign, I am working on putting out my books in print, via CreateSpace. This is going to be a fair amount of ...

Assuming the reason people look up a word in their Kindle dictionaries is because they don't know its meaning, Amazon knows what it'...

Digital vs. Print The experience of digital reading is not fundamentally different from reading on paper, especially if you read on an e-...

Amazon and Hachette, a Big-5 publisher, are having a very public spat over terms.  Amazon has always operated with very tight (for years no...

I went to my "Manage Your Kindle" page on Amazon today, to send a copy of the J.K. Rowling/Robert Galbraith mystery novel The C...

An interesting point about ebooks is that their use is not governed merely by the technology available but by the marketplace. Sony had a v...

Amazon is now reporting sales from India in a separate sales report, which told me there is now a Kindle store in India.  Here is the sales...

The X-Ray feature on Kindle is really handy for epic books with a large cast of characters or those stories that span years, where a charact...

I haven't been checking sales reports on Smashwords lately, so I don't know if they did them all on one day or three days in a row, ...

Last week Amazon sent me an email that my Kindle Paperwhite would be a week late. Today they sent me an email that they would issue me a $1...

The old saying goes that it's the squeaky wheel that gets the oil. My last post was about how only a few people take the trouble to post...