From the press release: CreateSpace, an Amazon.com company, today announced that authors and publishers around the world can now use its independent publishing platform to distribute their books in Europe for free on Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.de, Amazon.fr, Amazon.es and Amazon.it. By using CreateSpace to distribute directly to Amazon, authors and publishers ensure that their titles are always in stock for customers to… (more…)
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E-books do not ‘cost nothing to produce’
Via Teleread, By Chris Meadows We’ve all heard the argument that e-books should be cheaper because they don’t have printing, shipping, and warehousing costs. Blogger Deanna McFadden, who works in digital publishing, takes exception to writer Michael Chabon’s recent statement that it’s unfair publishers should get the same royalty as paper books for “an e-book that costs them nothing to produce.” McFadden attributes this sort of… (more…)
Lulu’s view
From the press release: When it comes to books, there is a debate over which format is more popular — e-books or print editions. What many people fail to identify is the connection between the two, as the two formats tend to influence each other. According to self-publishing company Lulu.com, the number of print titles they produced for 2011 was around… (more…)
How Smashwords smashed PayPal’s erotica publishing restrictions
Fast Company has an interview with Mark Coker of Smashwords in which he discusses the recent moves by PayPal to force removal from sale of certain categories of erotica, and how public pressure from writers, readers, the press, and others was able to make the company (and the credit card companies behind it) back down. He also expresses his opinions on the agency pricing anti-trust lawsuits. Perhaps the… (more…)
New cover image for “Lily Marin”
Dear reader, As there has been some confusion about the legality of using the image of a steampunk lady for the cover of Lily Marin, I have officially acquired an image that replaces the original. This to make sure nobody gets upset or otherwise will stumble with their knickers in a knot. So hereby I present the new cover image:… (more…)
How DRM weakens publishers’ negotiating leverage with retailers
This post originally appeared on BoingBoing - By Cory Doctorow at 7:23 am Monday, Apr 2 My latest Publishers Weekly column is “A Whip to Beat Us With,” which describes how publishers who allow retailers to add DRM to their products hand those retailers a commercial advantage to exercise over the publishers themselves. Jim C. Hines’s e-books are marketed both through a big publisher and… (more…)
Smashwords Surpasses 100,000 Indie Ebooks
Via Smashwords, by Mark Coker, founder of Smashwords: Today we announced an important Smashwords milestone. Over 100,000 ebooks are now published and live in the Smashwords catalog, thanks to the efforts of over 36,000 Smashwords authors and publishers around the world. This month also marks our fourth birthday. Four years ago we unveiled Smashwords at the Tools of Change conference in New York.… (more…)
Preparing an e-book to publish on Smashwords
Dear reader, perhaps also fellow writer, I have noticed that there are people who are still not certain how they should make up their books or other publishing material, in order to easily get them accepted by Smashwords. It is a lot of work to get your work formatted the way you like it. I know, I’ve been there. For… (more…)
Hilda’s 8th book. Dragon Master.
Dear reader and perhaps Hilda fan, Here is the good news: book 8, Dragon Master, is now available at Smashwords. It will soon be available on Amazon as well, but the reviewing team there takes its time. I will of course post an announcement here when the book on Amazon is ready. Contrary to the previous 7 books in the… (more…)
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