StreetLib partners with Paris-based IP platform Nakiri to offer authors and publishers deals in global Francophone markets

Posted onMay 1, 2019Leave a comment

Italy-based digital books distributor and publishing facilitator StreetLib has partnered with Paris-based IP platform Nakiri to offer authors and publishers deals in the global Francophone markets Full disclosure: The New Publishing Standard (TNPS) is published by StreetLib to further the debate about the global book markets. TNPS is not a StreetLib promotion tool. We offer news, data and Read More …

Has Data Guy’s Author Earnings Report finally been laid to rest?

Posted onMarch 25, 2019June 23, 2019Leave a comment

It’s been well over a year since the last Author Earnings Report was released by Data Guy, the data analyst who preferred to keep how own identity hidden while making controversial claims about ebook sales in the US book market (and occasionally beyond). In January 2018 the last Author Earnings Report became mired in controversy Read More …

Discount ebook deals mailing list BookBub finally adds audiobooks. Launches Chirp in partnership with Findaway

Posted onMarch 5, 2019June 25, 2019Leave a comment

One of the biggest gripes about Amazon’s ACX, the self-publishing arm of Audible and very much the go to place for indie authors to distribute their audiobooks, is that Amazon calls the shots on pricing. Among the many appeals of new kid on the block Findaway is that the author has a semblance of control. Read More …

Colombia’s Bogota International Book Fair welcomes self-published authors

Posted onMarch 2, 2019May 4, 2019Leave a comment

Self-publishing is alive and well across Latin America, and nowhere more so than in Colombia, where the Bogota International Book Fair (FILBo from its Spanish title Feria del Libro Bogotá) is for the second year running giving self-publishers a chance to, participate in the Book Forums and other professionalization spaces promoted and organized by FILBo. Read More …

Books-A-Million shutters its self-publishing arm. Sends clients to FastPencil with three days notice

Posted onFebruary 27, 20193 Comments

Emails are going out this week telling Books-A-Million’s BAM Publish users that BAM is out of the publishing services business as of March 1. BAM Publish clients will be shifted to FastPencil, an operator that offers services similar to those being discontinued by BAM. Or rather, identical, as BAM partnered with FastPencil in 2016. Which Read More …

Scribd defies its critics. Hits 1 million subscribers

Posted onJanuary 28, 2019April 27, 20191 Comment

It all seemed so improbable just a few years ago, when many believed Scribd would follow Oyster into oblivion as Amazon moved into the ebook subscription game. And then of course there’s all that nonsense about how people are reading less nowadays and how the digital reading fad has faded and how… By the logic Read More …

Amazon’s Audible says self-published ebooks and paperbacks are not evidence that an author has been published

Posted onJanuary 18, 2019April 27, 20192 Comments

With the announcement in December that Amazon-owned Audible was sponsoring the prestigious Sunday Times Short Story Award came the prospect that the winners would not just earn some extra cash but would have their entries published as an audiobook that would reach a still wider audience. Which all sounds great. The Sunday Times Short Story Read More …

In case you missed it – The past week on TNPS

Posted onDecember 23, 2018July 12, 2019Leave a comment

The past seven days on TNPS – here’s what you missed. Dubai Audio Library “the largest Arabic audio library in the world” Dubai Audio Library “the largest Arabic audio library in the world” Self-published comic book to become Netflix series – Again Self-published comic book to become Netflix series – Again Saudi Arabia’s 4th Read More …

Self-publishing is “one of the great growth engines of the Peruvian publishing market”

Posted onDecember 21, 2018Leave a comment

Over at PublishNewsES this week, a thought-provoking study of the Peruvian book market that, unusually, adopts a holistic approach more akin to that we’d take here at TNPS. That is to say, a view that looks at all the key market segments rather than the usual introspective focus on publishers and offline/online retail. In this Read More …

Self-published comic book to become Netflix series – Again

Posted onDecember 16, 20181 Comment

What are the chances? You self-publish a comic book. Someone finds an old copy in a trash can. He happens to be a TV director. Next thing you know, your self-published comic book is a TV series. Now try count the odds for it happening twice! Okay, so there was no trash can involved the Read More …

Italy’s Traduzione Libri becomes the latest casualty of Amazon’s CreateSpace shutdown. The hunt for a serious international POD operator is on

Posted onNovember 29, 2018May 24, 2019Leave a comment

Ever since the first hints were dropped that CreateSpace was not long for this world and indie authors would be shunted into KDP Print there has been a question mark over publishing books in foreign languages. While Amazon may seem to be a global player, actually it is no such thing, and much of its Read More …

A look at the UK book wholesaler Gardners (via ALLi)

Posted onNovember 25, 2018Leave a comment

Amazon is also a major customer – and many of those books in the Amazon packaging are coming to you straight from Gardners. That will be news to many indie authors reading this, as will the news that Gardners handles ebooks. Head over to ALLi for the tour. At which point just to Read More …

Plympton’s “Cli-Fi” for Amazon; what agents want in YA; PublishDrive’s new royalty model – The Hot Sheet Reviewed – 1st November edition

Posted onNovember 4, 2018June 25, 2019Leave a comment

The Hot Sheet is a publishing industry news-sheet for authors, produced every two weeks by Porter Anderson and Jane Friedman, and reviewed here every other Sunday (when possible) as one of the best bi-weekly industry overviews available to authors. We’re not interested in delivering breaking news, but perspective on stories that are likely to retain meaning for your Read More …

Amazon’s stock market fall reminds us why self-publishers take a big risk with exclusivity

Posted onOctober 28, 2018Leave a comment

Amazon’s own books are quietly taking over the site – or so runs a headline in Quartz, which tells us, Last year Amazon Publishing put out 1,552 books across its 15 imprints. It’s a telling point that Amazon’s imprints rarely make an impact in the print charts – even on Amazon – but do disproportionately Read More …

B&N For Sale, Bowker’s Million Self-Publishers and Mark Lefebvre Joins Draft2Digital – The Hot Sheet Reviewed

Posted onOctober 21, 2018October 22, 2018Leave a comment

A reminder that Wattpad is not just about teen romance

Posted onOctober 15, 2018Leave a comment

Debut novelist Sam Marsden is the latest author to grab the attention of the moving pictures folk, with a preemptive TV and film rights deal just before Frankfurt. Stampede, Deadline explains, The book is set in a glass-domed Martian colony and follows 17-year-old Eva Knight, the daughter of colony’s president who detests life on Mars and Read More …

ALLi 3, VAT on ebooks in EU, Instafreebie rebrands, and the new Bookscan – The Hot Sheet Reviewed

Posted onOctober 7, 2018Leave a comment

Nigeria’s ebook distributor Publiseer launches in Kenya. South Africa next

Posted onOctober 6, 2018July 18, 20191 Comment

It was barely six weeks ago that Publiseer, celebrating its first birthday, launched its first operation outside homeland Nigeria, with a virtual expansion west into Ghana. Nigeria’s ebook aggregator Publiseer launches in Ghana, the first step in its Pan-Africa expansion Now it heads east, into Kenya, with a further expansion south to South Africa planned. Read More …

French booksellers boycott Prix Renaudot after CreateSpace title shortlisted

Posted onSeptember 10, 2018May 24, 2019Leave a comment

As reported here yesterday, a CreateSpace self-published title made it through to the shortlist for the prestigious French literary award the Prix Renaudot. Amazon’s CreateSpace goes out with a bang – cracks shortlist for prestigious French literary award Today comes news some French bookstore owners are now boycotting not just the CreateSpace title but the Read More …

The Week In Review

Posted onSeptember 9, 2018July 6, 2019Leave a comment

Here’s a summary of TNPS posts from the past seven days. UK’s Bradford Lit Fest and USA’s Washington National Book Fest see record attendance Sharjah Publishing City sponsors Nigerian literature award Ireland: “A buoyant time for publishing. One of today’s most vibrant book markets.” Sweden-based Arabic-language audiobook firm Kitab Sawti attracts new investment Peru exempts Read More …