Hear Michael talk to digital publishing and tech leaders on the NextMarket Podcast. In the book-author world, there's been no bigger shake-up to the establishment than the arrival of the Kindle ...

So you’ve got this great idea for a book. Chasing a publishing deal is notoriously tough, and even if you’re successful you could get pushed out of the earnings. As an alternative, you can always ...

In July, Alana Semuels wrote about how the e-commerce site has enhanced the possibilities for profitable self-publishing. Amazon has done a service making self-publishing within reach of everyone. But ...

As a ghostwriter, I often hear from prospective authors who would like to write a book but are on the fence about whether to self-publish it or try to find a commercial publisher. Many of these ...

What just happened? One of the many industries being disrupted by generative artificial intelligence, and usually not in a good way, is self-publishing. There's been a flood of what's suspected to be ...

I’ve published eight books in the past seven years, five with traditional publishers (Wiley, Penguin, HarperCollins), one comic book, and the last two I’ve self-published. In this post I give the ...

For most of Prime Day, Amazon’s annual sales bonanza, an unfamiliar face topped the site’s Author Rank page: Mike Omer, a 39-year-old Israeli computer engineer and self-published author whose profile ...

Quinn Ward published their first book in 2013 and has since released 33 more titles. Ward, who's carved out a niche in gay romance novels, booked $100,000 in Amazon royalties last year. They shared ...

So you want to self-publish your book? You’re in good company. Plenty of authors have gone ahead of you, working to prove that high-quality books can hold their own in the marketplace without the ...