This week, we take a trip to the Amazon. Well, to Amazon.com, anyway. The book-selling giant, not the South American jungle.
Join us as we explore the ins-and-outs of using Amazon. Is it good for indie publishing, or is Jeff Bezos and his gang greedily enriching themselves on the backs of writers and [...]

I saw this over at Gizmodo today, and thought it was interesting. Apparently, Amazon spent time calling publishers to see if it could find out what Apple had been promising them.
I’m sure it’s sound business practice or whatever, but it kinda seems a little… junior high. Rick likes Susan but Susan kinda likes [...]

There is a great new cultural voice in town here in Baltimore. “What Weekly” Volume #2 just dropped yesterday. The lead article features… sahffi’s video shoot last week! (For those of you who don’t know, sahffi serves as the house band for the IndieBookMan Radio Show, is an astounding musician, and well… also [...]

So, Amazon recently announced that they are changing their consignment rate for self-published electronic books. If you follow their rules (i.e. allow the Kindle to read your book out loud, and some other things) they are upping the consignment rate to be more in your favor. It will now be a %70-%30 percent [...]

I don’t know if this takes Tor.com out of the sphere of mainstream publishing, but it seems that this web-based branch of the big SF/F house is going POD with its titles. This kind of makes sense, as the last I heard mother ship Tor is now taking up to three years to release its [...]

I am an active user of Amazon.com’s author-promotion mechanisms. I have an author-blog on my book’s Amazon page, I submitted my book so it’s searchable on Amazon, I have submitted a review written by an independent reviewer for display on my book’s Amazon page. So far so good. However: the book I’m pitching is among [...]