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New updates to The Global Indie Author uploaded today

By On April 30, 2012 · Leave a Comment

The latest updates to The Global Indie Author were uploaded today in Kindle, ePub, and PDF formats. You can download them from the right sidebar.

These updates include all previous updates, which in many cases are updated here again. New or updated material covers:

the latest developments regarding book covers for Kindle; copyrighting of works, [...]

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Microsoft buys portion of B&N’s Nook

By On April 30, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Just a few months ago it was rumored that B&N would no longer develop the Nook, and Nook owners were worried about the fate of their devices. Today, it was announced that Microsoft had bought a 17.6% stake in the company and plans are to integrate the Nook  into the Windows operating [...]

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Uploading your Kindle book cover separately is the better option

By On April 22, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Update 4/26/12: in just the last 24 hours or so, Amazon has updated the KDP interface: adding the product image as your internal book cover is no longer an option, it is mandatory. KDP help pages have been changed to reflect this.

A few weeks ago I wrote a blog post about Kindle’s [...]

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Where does agency pricing go from here?

By On April 11, 2012 · Leave a Comment

The Associated Press has reported that the U. S. Justice Department and 15 states filed a lawsuit Wednesday against Apple Inc. and Holtzbrinck Publishers, doing business as Macmillan, and The Penguin Publishing Co. Ltd., doing business as Penguin Group.  The federal government reached a settlement with three of the publishers, Hachette, HarperCollins [...]

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Agency pricing war of words heats up

By On April 9, 2012 · Leave a Comment

A recent news article by paidContent.org reporting on the ongoing Attorney General investigation into Apple and the Big Five publishers’ conspiracy to fix the price of ebooks, as well as an ongoing civil class action suit, suggests a war of leaked words is the latest strategy to force a [...]

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Important reading for anyone considering an indie publisher

By On April 5, 2012 · Leave a Comment

On the website Writer Beware (included in my links, below) is an interesting guest blog by Victoria Strauss on the failure of many small publishers. These are not the established small, independent presses that usually specialize in a narrow market but the new crop of indie author-publishers who see an opportunity for [...]

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Is there a catch to Kindle’s new option to upload your ebook cover separately?

By On March 26, 2012 · 5 Comments

Update: Kindle promised me an answer to this question by March 25. So far, all I’ve received is their assurances they are “researching” the matter. Considering this is not a difficult question, one has to wonder what, if anything, Amazon is hiding. Will keep you all posted.

Recently, Kindle modified its system to allow authors [...]

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ISBN “Multiple formats” option misunderstood by many indie authors

By On March 14, 2012 · 5 Comments

The International ISBN Agency, and its national agencies such as Bowker in the U.S., have repeatedly insisted that the correct use of the ISBN system requires each format of an ebook be identified with its own ISBN, as is the case with print books. Thus a Kindle file should have its own ISBN, the ePub [...]

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Kindle Previewer Update and the New (?) Back Button

By On March 12, 2012 · Leave a Comment

In the 07 March update to The Global Indie Author I mused about the annoying new “bug” that seemed to have invaded the Kindle Previewer: after hyperlinking to a new section in the ebook, the back button no longer returned the reader to their previous place in the text. Turns out I’m a dork: I [...]

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NOTICE: Free “Ten Steps to Kindle” Guide Updated Today

By On March 7, 2012 · 2 Comments

Update 04/30/12: Amazon has once again changed the way the Kindle handles book covers, and I have elected to take this manual down until I can find the time to update it again.

Amazon recently made a substantial change to the way they handle book covers, an update that was too important not to add [...]

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