Congrats! You’re about to publish your ebook on Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP). Maybe it’s your first, maybe it’s your tenth. But wait – before you hit that yellow “publish” button – have you thought ...

Publishing a book is one of the best things a business owner can do in order to grow their business. Writing and publishing a book accomplishes two particularly important objectives: improving the ...

While Amazon’s KDP publishing platform gave voice to authors all across the US, it took a little time at the onset for that freedom to reach other countries and other reader markets. The company ...

If you’re a self-published author, writing your book is only half the battle. Some might even argue that it’s the easy part of being an author. Indies have been beaten over the head for years now ...

Amazon announced this afternoon that it will be expanding its Kindle Direct Publishing business to support the needs of children’s books authors through a new program it’s calling “KDP Kids.” Along ...

In a move designed to attract and support children’s book authors and self-publishers, Amazon has launched KDP Kids, a children's-focused illustrated and chapter book category in the Kindle Store.

Now that Amazon has uncorked their Kindle Unlimited service I, like many indie authors, was curious. What does this mean for us withered scribes, scribbling away in our garrets and bobbing on the ...

Two weeks ago I wrote an article called "Publishing is Broken" on the rise of self-publishing that sparked a great deal of conversation. It also forced an apology from Sue Grafton whose interview with ...