Authorcraft Book Club

Children’s Print Book Sales Buck the Trend

Apr 21, 2015

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...

How Authors Communicate with their Following Online

Apr 20, 2015

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...

Apple moves Audiobooks to iBooks

Apr 20, 2015

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...

Kindle Unlimited Payout at a Record Low $1.33 in March 2015

Apr 20, 2015

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...

10 Things To Look Out For When Line Editing

Apr 19, 2015

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....