Author Archive | Chris Day

┬áAmazon to Customers: Not Our Fault! The New York Times reported on Monday night that Amazon and HarperCollins had signed a new multiyear contract to sell e-books. The agreement, which came just a few weeks after news leaked to Business Insider that HarperCollinsÔÇÖ contract with Amazon was set to expire, presumably averted another lengthy, public […]

┬áAudiobooks have proven to be Scribd’s secret weapon in the subscription ebook market but Amazon is not exactly unarmed. The retailer has offered around 2,000 audiobooks in Kindle Unlimited since it launched last July, and now German subscribers can join the fun. Amazon just announced that the addition of 2,000 English and German Audible audiobook […]

By Narrative Science Analysts are predicting grim results for Amazon.com when the company releases its first quarter numbers on Thursday, April 23, 2015. They are expecting the company to take a loss of 12 cents a share after Amazon.com booked a profit of 23 cents a year ago. The consensus estimate hasnÔÇÖt changed over the […]

The career path of an author is rarely paved with gold Nick Clark Arts Correspondent The Telegraph ItÔÇÖs the dream of many a frustrated office worker ÔÇô quit the rat race and start a new life as a writer. But the career path of an author is rarely paved with gold, according to a new […]

By Mercy Pilkington Only a handful of years ago, self-published authors fought for legitimacy and respect while readers, retailers, and the traditional publishing industry scoffed at the notion that anyone would buy a book that hadnÔÇÖt been passed through the infamous ÔÇ£gate.ÔÇØ Even with the names of early multi-million selling authors being thrown around, names […]

By Jonathan Nowell   At our Nielsen ChildrenÔÇÖs Summit in New York in December, we talked about how childrenÔÇÖs print book sales around the world in the last couple of years have been nothing short of fantastic. Total print sales in the US rose 2%, but childrenÔÇÖs was the key driver, with 13% growth. In […]

by International Digital Marketing Expert – Warren Knight Warren is our keynote speak at the AuthorCraft event on April 28th at the IoD. Do you remember when book promotion relied heavily on the traditional press routes of magazines and offline marketing? There were many challenges when promoting a book 10 years ago that we donÔÇÖt […]

By Roger Fingas ┬áApple’s newly released iOS 8.4 beta relocates audiobooks out of the Music app into iBooks, and it adds a separate launcher for them in CarPlay, AppleInsider has discovered. With the first beta of iOS 8.4, CarPlay users will see a new “Audiobooks” app sporting the iBooks icon. The change to CarPlay was […]

Nate Hoffelder Kindle Unlimited adoption continued to grow last month, but unfortunately it grew faster than Amazon ‘s willingness to fund it. Earlier this week Amazon released the latest statistics on KDP Select, the program used to fund indie author and publisher participation in Kindle Unlimited. Amazon reported that the pool for KDP Select for […]

by Adriana Bielkova ┬®. You know the drill: revise the structure; look at plot flow; do more work on this or that character; check grammar and spelling; proofread. Hang on a secondÔǪ you forgot to line edit! Line editing makes your sentences the best they can be. That means removing all the unnecessary words; making […]