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

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

The Sixth Discipline , the first book of my two-book Haven series is always free, thanks to price-matching. Smashwords lets authors make eb...

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...

A recent post on The Digital Reader blog (also on Facebook , if you prefer to follow it that way), describes how Google is creating "...

The Digital Reader blog has a post about a new Amazon feature called Amazon Print on Demand (available only on Amazon UK, as far as can be ...

I have used CreateSpace , Amazon's print-on-demand (POD) service to publish three of my books in paperback. The way CreateSpace works is...

My fantasy novella Where Magic Rules  is now available as a paperback as well as an ebook. The paperback is $5.99 but if you buy it, the Kin...

How did I forget to post about this? Saronna's Gift  made a  list of 20 science fiction romance books  on the Barnes & Noble sci-fi ...

In an earlier post  about my use of a BookBub promotion  back in May, I mentioned that I was guessing that Apple didn't seem to report h...

Like the KDP and PubIt platforms, Smashwords reports sales on their own platform very quickly. For all three of them, you see any and all sa...