Amazon’s ebook subscription service, Kindle Unlimited, has attracted criticism recently, with some self-published authors complaining that the service devalues their work and chafing at the requirement that they make their ebooks exclusive… Read more »
Amazon’s crowdsourced publishing initiative is for romance, mystery/thriller and sci-fi/fantasy authors, and will open to the public in a couple of weeks. Separately, Amazon is launching a community called WriteOn… Read more »
Amazon on Wednesday launched the Kindle Kids’ Book Creator, which is software that helps authors create illustrated ebooks. It could also be a way for Amazon to beef up its subscription… Read more »
More self-published ebooks are coming to a library near you, as self-publishing site Smashwords partners with Overdrive, the country’s largest digital library distributor. Read more »
The founders of Inkshares don’t think the traditional publishing industry is broken, just antiquated and inefficient — and they think marrying crowdfunding and the kinds of services publishers used to offer… Read more »
The future of publishing is entering a new golden era that will make publishing available to more people. Twitter, new long-form content distributers and an increase in digital ad spending will… Read more »
I guess it’s not surprising that Kevin Kelly, the co-founder of Wired and now the magazine’s Senior Maverick, would be using state-of-the-art business… Read more »