Self-published books are on the rise, to the dismay of onlookers who wonder what to expect from a sector where E. L. James’s Fifty Shades of Grey – originally published as online fan fiction by a tiny ...

Writer seeks Kindled spirit: Six novelists reveal how to self-publish successfully. By LAURA SILVERMAN FOR YOU MAGAZINE . Published: 19:09 EDT, 15 April 2017 | Updated: 19:09 EDT, 15 April 2017 ...

He adds that another huge advantage of self-publishing now is that you have a tremendous amount of control over the size of the print run. You can start small and build up as demand grows. But for ...

And a whole lot of writers are making money from selling them. According to Amazon's 2019 review of its Kindle sales, there are now thousands of self-published authors taking home royalties of ...

When e-publishing was introduced, the eager early-adopters were individual writers, often those whose books, having failed to excite a literary agent, had languished on the dusty hard-drive for years.

Self-publishing has had a bad reputation. ... The US has traditionally published around twice as many new books and new editions as the UK, but in 2010 the ratio rose to nearly nine to one, ...

Bookshop at Minneapolis airport by brewbooks Last week I had an interesting chat on Twitter with Joe Abercrombie, Tom Standage, Damien Walter, and Sam Missingham about the problems with territory ...

What to do if you're not JK Rowling, you don't have a big publishing house to promote you but you're determined to make your book a success? Having initially thought that I would put the book out ...

A self-published author tends to get about 70% of the cover price for an e-book from a company like Amazon, if they charge about £1.50 or above. This is a larger proportion than writers are ...