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Colleen Hoover: A New York Times Bestselling Self-Publisher

Below is an excerpt from an interview with Colleen Hoover, a New York Times bestselling author who self-published several novels, including Slammed several years ago. I just wrote these books less than a year ago, so I never tried to get them traditionally published. In all honesty, I wrote them for fun and never thought of myself as an author. I uploaded them to Amazon so friends and family…

Does KDP Paperback Publishing Really Solve Anything?

Never one to be a naysayer, we at GoodEReader ordinarily go fan-girl level crazy over a new startup that innovates anything to do with digital publishing. But a new beta program from Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing seems to solve a problem that no one has.

Until now, authors who wished to create an ebook for sale on Amazon went through a fairly straightforward upload process on KDP. (NOTE: the…

Amazon KDP Select: Is It Worthwhile for Authors?

There’s a lot of turmoil right now in the self-publishing world regarding the Amazon KDP Select program. I’m not sure it’s warranted. The Select Program is just that: a program, a tool, a tactic.

In other words, it’s not a promise, a guarantee, or even a long term strategy—for authors or Amazon.

It’s a program. Subject to change. And it might not fit your needs now—or later—or ever. Or it might…

Innocent Authors Are Getting Burned in Amazon’s Fight Against KU Bot Farms

Remember earlier this year when authors were being punished for putting a table of contents at the end of their ebooks?

As David Gaughran inferred and Amazon confirmed, those authors were getting caught up in one of Amazon’s fights against Kindle Unlimited scammers who were tricking readers into clicking links which lead to the end of an ebook (this enabled the scammers to get paid for an entire…

THINK YOU COULDN’T POSSIBLY LOSE YOUR AMAZON PUBLISHING ACCOUNT? THINK AGAIN.

There’s this indie author I know a little bit from the Kboards.com forum. Her name is Pauline Creeden, and she’s an ordinary midlister, like so many of us. I remember PMing her some time ago and gushing about how particularly beautiful one of her book covers is—the one for Chronicles of Steele: Raven.

 Here, I’ll include an image. Gorgeous, eh?

Anyway, today I tuned in to Kboards and noticed that…

Amazon pushes print with new KDP paperback beta program

The online retailer, and increasingly publisher, Amazon, today reached out to Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) account holders to let them know of a new feature that will print their digital books on demand.

Amazon, of course, already has its CreateSpace service, which also hooks up with KDP, so those who have published a paperback with Amazon probably have also made that book available for the…