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Lulu Launches New Features
Lulu is making it easier and faster for indie authors to self-publish their work via a simplified home page, new book templates, and new e-book solutions.
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Change at the Top at Smashwords
Pamela Ann’s Chasing Imperfection was the top-selling book at Smashwords in July, taking over the #1 spot from Abbi Glines’s Forever Too Far, which dropped a notch to second place.
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PW Select Expansion Offers Indie Authors More Options
The popular supplement dedicated to covering the self-publishing industry will now be published monthly, feature indie success stories, and accept more submissions.
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DIY: How to Polish Your Manuscript with Editing and Art Services
One of the best ways to ensure a manuscript is polished before publication is to tap the talents of outside professionals, including an editor, proofreader, and designer.
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Seeing Is Believing: How Indie Authors Can Promote Books with Video
How do you go about creating a video about your self-published book that is going to make readers stumble over each other to get their hands (or eyes) on it?
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Smashwords Self-Published Bestseller List, July 2013
Yet again, romance titles dominated our latest list of the top-selling titles published on the Smashwords platform. However, this month, five YA books broke into the top 25.
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PW Select August 2013: All Our Coverage
A bimonthly guide to what's new in self-publishing.
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PW Select August 2013: New Title Listings
The complete listing of all 179 titles submitted for our 12th edition of PW Select.
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PW Select August 2013: Reviews
Reviews of Fiction, Nonfiction and Children's self-published titles from this round of PW Select submissions.
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Writer on the Storm - John Densmore
It is probably hard for most people to imagine turning down several million dollars for just signing one’s name.
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PW Select August 2013: Understanding Copyright - What Every Indie Author Needs to Know
So what’s the fuss all about? Did Eliot really steal from other poets, or were Frost and Cummings just jealous? Why wasn’t the work of those dead poets protected by copyright, or was it? Good question.
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Ingrid Ricks’s Great Escape
In her youth, Ingrid Ricks was in constant search for escape.
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PW Select August 2013: Amazon Discovers New Voices
Since 2008, the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award has discovered and published authors, many of whom have never been published before. In this contest, which is capped at 10,000 entries, the book pitch and the manuscript are what matter—not an author’s track record or book industry connections.
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PW Talks with Roger Croft
Roger Croft self-published the thriller Operation Saladin—the second installment in his Michael Vaux series—through CreateSpace.
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Glines Tops at Smashwords
Abbi Glines dominated the top spots on Smashword’s list of the bestselling self-published titles in June, which was once again ruled by the romance category.
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BookWorks: Understanding Copyright: What Every Indie Author Needs to Know
Copyright law can be pretty confusing even for intellectual property lawyers. But in this useful primer, BookWorks explains everything from copyright registration to fair use cases.
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Smashwords Self-Published Bestseller List, June 2013
This month, our list of the 25 top-selling titles published on the Smashwords platform is once again chock full of romance.
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Helping Veterans after Action: How One Indie Author Is Making A Difference
Through writing, I came to understand my experiences in a way that could help other veterans -- past, present, and future -- deal with the aftermath of war. I felt what I had learned was important enough to share with others and was determined to make it available, publisher or not.
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DIY: How to Get Your Indie Book Into Stores and Libraries
With the right approach and well-selected targets, a self-published author can start to see his or her titles appearing on bookstore and library shelves.