self-publishing

Kindle Fire Overtaking iPad?

Mashable reported that BestBuy says the Kindle Fire is their best selling tablet, overtaking the iPad in sales. Don’t know if you saw the article last week, but apparently Amazon has priced the Fire so low it’s actually taking a tiny loss on each tablet sold. But, if you add up the ebook sales on [...]

Why Authors Have to Publish on Kindle and Nook – Now!

Been thinking of selling on Kindle or Nook but haven’t gotten around to it? Now’s the time. As of this morning, Kindle has more than one million Kindle titles, and now Juniper Research released a new report on mobile eBook sales, which it forecasts to reach close to $10 billion ($9.7b) by 2016, up from [...]

Why Smart Marketers Must Publish on Amazon’s Kindle

If you’re selling a service or product and not self-publishing on Amazon’s Kindle platform, you’re not leveraging one of the Internet’s traffic giants. With more than 54 million hits a month, Amazon is the ultimate traffic-driver; even if you never own a Kindle why n ot get your e-books, special reports, or killer articles into [...]

Amazon Kindle Publishing in 2009: The Sheriff Came to Town

For self-published authors who wanted to get their work in front of Amazon’s massive traffic, putting their work on the Kindle platform seemed like a no-brainer. At the beginning of 2009, almost anyone with a U.S. bank account and an article or book in digital format could publish to Kindle—including the bad, the good, and [...]