Self-publishing

Writing is akin to being naked in the street baring yourself to the world. This paraphrases the thought expressed to me by a friend recently when we discussed publishing one’s writing. The analogy is very good in fact as what we write are our thoughts, which normally are of course politely and extremely well hidden…

Traffic is king for self-publishing. There is no doubt that earning money from self-publishing will become increasingly difficult. The enormous number of books, and especially ebooks, which are now published each and every day are flooding the market and making it extremely difficult for a self-published author to get noticed and by extension, to sell books and…

Does Amazon exploit authors? For self-published authors, Amazon has the annoying habit of giving a little with one hand, and then very soon after, taking away an awful lot more with the other. In the very early days of Kindle Direct Publishing, Amazon gave self-published authors a wonderful new platform to expose and sell their…

There’s more to self-publishing than Kindle While the Kindle publishing platform is undoubtedly the largest at present, this doesn’t mean that it’s the only viable publishing platform for self-publishing authors. Judging by the number of comments and visits to my recent post, Self Published Authors Get Ready, You’re Being Dumped, there is a genuine concern amongst…

What do you get when you buy an ebook? When you buy an ebook, do you buy it, or do you really only rent it? Then after this consideration, what restriction come with either choice? In recent months, the issue of ebook ownership has been discussed at length in both the news and on publishing…

How To Promote Yourself As An Author Selling books is hard work and also a very good way to alienate yourself as an author. Social media is full of self-published authors trying to ‘flog’ their ebooks and all most of them achieve is to be ignored or unfollowed. In recent weeks I have had quite…