Weekly Roundup of Indie Publishing News and Stuff – February 28th 2016

Play

Xavier played host today and was joined by Chrishaun Keller and special guest Stephen Campbell. Topics covered include:

– John Grisham is offering a permafree book that he says will save lives
– Amazon’s ‘supposed’ secret project
– Amazon is again banning heaps of reviewers and deleting all of their reviews – innocent reviewers also caught up in the sweeping bans

Weekly Round up of Indie Publishing News and Stuff – 21 February 2016

Play

Chrishaun Keller and Robert Chazz Chute joined Erica and special guest Chris Fox to discuss the below topics:

– Scribd is limiting it’s unlimited subscription
– Science Fiction authors banding together to help you discover sci-fi!
– Amazon is not hiding reviews so stop freaking out!
– Reedsy launches its new Book Editor
– Literary fiction mourns the loss of two epic authors

Weekly Round up of Indie Publishing News and Stuff – 7 February 2016

Play

Patrick Stemp from the To Be Read podcast and Chrishaun Keller joined Erica for this week’s Roundtable Round Up. They discussed the below news items:

– Amazon announces KENPC 2.0
– New York Times Best-Seller List ignores authors 20k+ book sales
– Young Adult finally recognised
– Google’s new “Digital Book” may be digital, but is it a book?
– Steam has an interactive story called Emily is Away

Weekly Round up of Indie Publishing News and Stuff – 31 January 2016

Play

Welcome to the Roundtable Roundup, our third weekly podcast where we go back to our roots and have brought back the Roundtable aspect. Each Sunday (American time) we’ll invite a guest or two to join us live to discuss the latest news and views from the self-publishing and indie industry.

Topics include:
– Kobo partners with ListenUp to give authors a discount on audiobook production
– According to German Court: sharing your Amazon purchases online is spamming
– A call to bust Amazon ‘monopoly’
– Plagiarism: K-Reports is using Book Report’s source code

Weekly Round up of Indie Publishing News and Stuff – 24 January 2016

Play

Welcome to the Roundtable Roundup, our second weekly podcast where we go back to our roots and brought back the Roundtable aspect. Each Sunday (American time) we’ll invite a guest or two to join us live to discuss the latest news and views from the self-publishing and indie industry.

Topics include:
– Kindle ebooks with bad formatting and/or spelling mistakes to include warning label for readers
– Amazon to close Shelfari and merge it with Goodreads
– SFWA to back self-publishing Kickstarter campaigns
– A sexy ebook enhancement…