by Ryan Casey | Nov 23, 2012 | Publishing
NOTE: Some interesting debates developing in the comments section. Please let your opinion be heard! In my five months of blogging and scouring other writing blogs, I’ve seen a lot of talk surrounding the topic of eBook pricing. It seems to be that one topic us...
by Ryan Casey | Nov 2, 2012 | Publishing
Notice your Amazon page looking a little… well, barer than usual? After a number of controversies surrounding sock puppet book reviews in 2012, Amazon have decided to go nuclear and remove thousands of book reviews from their website. We’re talking...
by Ryan Casey | Oct 17, 2012 | Publishing
Not a week goes by without another article about the death of physical books, and parallel rise of the ebook. August saw eBook sales overtake print sales on Amazon, with something like 114 ebooks sold for every 100 paperbacks. Just this week, Digital Book World...
by Ryan Casey | Sep 17, 2012 | Publishing
I’m a massive technology geek. I’m always salivating at the capabilities of ‘the latest thing’, the latest of course being the gorgeous new iPhone 5. Yes, I’m a tech-geek. Get used to it. Salivating aside, I’m actually really...
by Ryan Casey | Sep 14, 2012 | Publishing
This is the latest in a series of posts dispelling self-publishing myths. Part one is Self-Publishing Means Inferior Quality, part two is Self-Published Authors Don’t Sell Any Books. After the success of the first two instalments of this little series, I asked...
by Ryan Casey | Sep 7, 2012 | Publishing
Last week, I looked at one of the main myths I’ve encountered since deciding to self-publish my work – that self-publishing means inferior quality. Hopefully, I managed to convince you that the belief really is nothing more than a myth, and one of many...