by Ryan Casey | May 1, 2013 | Publishing
Note: since the publication of this post, a lot has changed in the publishing landscape. I still use Draft2Digital to get my books into Apple and Barnes & Noble, but I also use Smashwords for the other channels. So yes — Smashwords has improved. Lots....
by Ryan Casey | Apr 12, 2013 | Publishing
If you’re a long-term follower of this blog, you’ll remember I posted a hypothesis last summer about how a ‘Spotify for Books’ style platform would likely emerge in the coming months and years, offering readers a means to pay a flat fee and...
by Ryan Casey | Apr 3, 2013 | Marketing
This post is a spiritual successor of sorts to KDP Select: The Secret to Hitting the Top 100 and KDP Select: Is it Still Worth it? Thoughts for 2013. You might want to read those first, you might not — it’s your call. Yes, another KDP Select post. A couple...
by Ryan Casey | Feb 23, 2013 | Publishing
1st March is a day where everything changes (again) for KDP Select and, more specifically, the promotion of free eBooks. It’s news that will affect all authors, whether partaking in KDP Select or not, so I suggest you read on if you haven’t already heard...
by Ryan Casey | Feb 20, 2013 | Marketing
I’m going to be open and honest to start off: I have illegally downloaded music in the past. I’ve pirated plenty of films too. Books? A few, yeah. I guess my excuse is that during my teen years, I belonged to an age-group where digital content sharing was...
