Publishing your own eBook on Amazon Kindle gives you the freedom to design, edit, and display your write-ups. If done rightly, it can market quicker than the traditional publishing process, ...

Amazon launched its Kindle Single store and my experiment in self-book publishing went along for the ride. Here's a look at what you need to know.

Self-publishing on Amazon’s platforms benefits authors in some genres—including romance and mystery, where readers tear through books and writing them might not take a long time—over those ...

Publishing a book through Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing turned out to be both easier and harder than I thought. After tearing my hair out at first, I discovered Amazon's template for a 5-by-8 ...

Amazon’s move is causing consternation behind the scenes in publishing. The online retailer had approached publishers about participating in the program for a flat fee -- and many turned them down.

When looking at Kindle Direct Publishing’s advertised 70 percent royalty rate, one would assume that 30 percent of each sale would go to Amazon with the rest going to the author.

Spam has hit the Kindle, clogging the online bookstore of the top-selling eReader with material that is far from being book worthy and threatening to undermine Amazon.com's publishing foray.

Amazon has been awarded $75,000 in an arbitration case against an e-book marketer that allegedly inflated reader numbers artificially in an effort to increase profits and sales rankings. It's part ...