Kenya – Self-Publishers welcome at the Nairobi International Book Fair
But Kenya is among the more advanced digital nations in Africa, with 47 million people online...
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Category: Self-Publishing
The courts are not the place to try protect author career paths. Joseph Saveri LLP should stick to its primary remit
IP laws already exist. They exist to protect intellectual property, not to protect creator...
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Germany’s Thalia buys into Austria’s self-pub start-up Storylution. “A new age of book creation”?
The comparison with the music industry is bewildering. The 2020s music industry is not driven by...
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Do authors need publishers? Shatzkin concludes not
Shatzkin: “The biggest change of all is that publishers aren’t “necessary” for an author to have a...
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How self-publishers are taking digital library eyeballs from mainstream publishers
Bigger publishers might want to pay attention, not just because sometimes indies lead the way with...
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Shueisha and MediBang launch new self-publishing Manga platform in English and Spanish
Manga Plus Creators by Shueisha is what the new self-publishing platform is called, and the target...
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Self-publishing org. ALLi marks its tenth anniversary at LBF as indie publishing booms, but true scale of sales and revenue is unkown
Just as musicians make their subscription money by volume of downloads, so subscription publishers...
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Draft2Digital drops a distribution outlet as 24Symbols admits to “cash stability issues”, but don’t write off 24Symbols just yet
“We do indeed have some cash stability issues, and for this reason Draft2Digital decided to remove...
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Ten years after self-publishing took off in the UK, The Bookseller still excludes indie authors from its awards
The Bookseller 2012: “For years the publishing industry has ignored self-publishing. The...
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Sweden’s self-publishing platform Type & Tell to close Sept. 30 as Amazon Sweden signs first publisher deal
A confirmed publisher deal indicates books will be part of the imminent Amazon Sweden launch, but...
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The StreetLib-TNPS global-perspectives newsletter for serious self-publishers, Publish Global # 5, is now out
The free StreetLib-TNPS B2B global-perspectives newsletter for the serious self-publisher with...
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The latest edition of Publish Global, the StreetLib-TNPS newsletter for indie authors, is now live
As a pandemic sweeps the world, publishing limps into the new decade. Whatever high hopes and...
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