The original now clunky-looking Kindle came out in 2007, and since then ebooks and ereaders have exploded. Technology and publishing have ch...

Any book can have errors, but one book that's almost bound to have errors is an old, out-of-print (or even out-of-copyright) title that...

I own a laptop with Windows 10 and a tablet with Android. I have the Kindle app on both, but I almost never use it unless I want to look at ...

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 recently used an Amazon feature called "Hosting a giveaway." If you look at the product page of a book, below the reviews and ju...

I occasionally blog about book promotion , especially in reference to free books, but also about how hard it is to get a book in front of fo...

If you've made the decision to self-publish, the next think you need to decide is whether to publish print books or ebooks or both. P...

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...

The Pew Research Group recently released the results of their study of reading habits of Americans. The Pew post was headlined " E-Read...

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...

When people ask me why I write, I say it's because I was born a storyteller. I have a tin ear and two left feet, so music and dance were...

Well, this is turning into a bad habit! Just like my last post, this post is all about someone else's recent blog post. In this case, it...

I have a post on The Serious Reader blog  today! It's all about what causes the many errors we (sadly) still find in ebooks. The site al...

Today while I was waiting in my doctor's office for an appointment, I was reading a book on my Kindle. You'll notice I didn't sa...

I'm not the first writer to compare producing a book with producing a baby. I once heard Dan Simmons say that publishing a book was lik...

One question I get asked frequently, mostly by other writers, is “Is it worth it to give an ebook away for free?” It sounds so counter-intui...

Amazon has some interesting benefits for Amazon Prime members.  Amazon Prime is a membership program that costs $79 a year. The most-often u...

The Sixth Discipline is now free in the Diesel bookstore, too! That puts them in third place in the price-matching race, behind iBooks an...

Actually, I don't know if they were ever gone;  I think Diesel simply changed their search syntax as far as author names. When I searche...