A good ebook should look right on every device and sell in every store. These articles cover making and selling digital books: formatting that does not break, distribution that reaches every retailer, and pricing that moves copies.
Book ROI & Business CaseSeptember 29, 2026
A shorter book costs less to ghostwrite when the price is set by the word, and it still needs the same interviews. What length does to the price of a short book, an ebook or a lead-magnet book, and what…
Book MarketingSeptember 9, 2026
IngramSpark does hardcover, reaches the catalog libraries and bookstores order from, lets you set your own margin over a printing base price, and since BookBuilder arrived you no longer have to produce a wraparound cover PDF yourself. It pairs with…
AmazonJune 14, 2026
Read an E-Book Week is the first full week of March. The honest case for e-books, why you don't really own them, and how they compare to print you keep.
AudiobookMay 28, 2026
Apple Books has 600 million active devices and a customer base that skews professional and affluent, a serious authority-author opportunity almost nobody writes about. Here is why it matters more for B2B nonfiction than for fiction, what its discovery and…
Author BusinessMay 28, 2026
Every Amazon sale hands over about 65 percent of the cover price and your customer list to a company that competes with you. A direct sale through Shopify, Payhip, or your own site keeps the margin and, more importantly, builds…
Book MarketingMay 27, 2026
Nobody reads anymore is the most confident wrong thing people say about books. Roughly three-quarters of American adults read one in a given year, a figure Pew has tracked as basically flat for over a decade, with print still leading…
Amazon & KDPFebruary 14, 2026
Clients usually know they want a book and have barely thought about how it reaches readers, but that choice decides control, speed, money, and whether the book does its job. Three paths are worth weighing. Here is traditional, self-publishing, and…
Book DesignFebruary 14, 2026
A well-written book with bad formatting still looks amateur, and readers feel it instantly: the wandering margins, the random fonts, the broken table of contents. Formatting is not the last step you rush; it is part of the product. Here…
Amazon & KDPFebruary 12, 2026
The platform you choose is not a small decision; it sets your distribution, your royalty rate, your formats, and how much control you keep. Pick wrong and you cap the book's reach before anyone reads a page. Here is what…
Amazon & KDPFebruary 12, 2026
The moment you publish, your book is global, Amazon hits a dozen marketplaces, ebooks land instantly, print-on-demand ships worldwide, and yet most authors quietly cap their own reach with avoidable mistakes. Having ghostwritten for clients across six countries, I have…
Amazon & KDPFebruary 12, 2026
Most authors picture readers in their own country and stop there, which is thinking far too small. An English book can reach every English-speaking market, and with translation, every market on earth, and the infrastructure has never been more accessible.…
AudiobookFebruary 11, 2026
September is National Library Card Signup Month. Why every writer needs a library card and how libraries shaped one author's career.
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