Amazon to sponsor Digital Book World 2018 for first time in conference history
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Getting your book on page 1 of Amazon’s search results [FOR AUTHORS]
As you can imagine, getting on page 1 of Amazon’s search results can be very important. Amazon is the world’s largest search engine and your…
Tips for making your book a genuine success
Last month Claire Morrison, Senior Marketing Manager at DK, felt passionate enough about our feature Amazon: How to Get Your Book To Appear Alongside the…
Amazon: How to get your book to appear alongside the Best Sellers [Winning blog idea July]
Each month BookMachine offers a community member, with great ideas, the chance to write on the site. July’s winner was Richard McCartney, with his tips on…
Amazon’s Whole Foods acquisition is about so much more than groceries
Yes, the grocery business is huge. And while it’s one of several industries Amazon hasn’t yet dominated, there’s something way more significant about their acquisition…
What Cory Doctorow taught me about DRM
Cory Doctorow is one of my nominations for Hero of the Internet. He’s an author, activist, journalist, and blogger – he’s co-editor of Boing Boing,…
BookMachine February Wrap: Publishing stories from around the web
This month in publishing, booksellers have taken the spotlight, with Waterstones announcing their first year of profit since the 2008 financial crash. In fact, Bookstore…
Why Amazon ebook market is not enough – go global!
PublishDrive is an ebook publishing service which supports the operational processes of small indie publishers and authors. Kinga Jentetics is CEO and co-founder of PublishDrive,…
Four players in the book business with the power to rewrite some of the rules
The news came recently that ReaderLink has purchased Anderson News. Those two companies have been the leading suppliers of books to the mass merchandisers: primarily Wal-mart,…
Book Marketing Survey identifies the top 5 book promotional services
The latest Book Marketing Survey carried out by KindleBookReview provides a number of interesting insights into the best ways self-published authors should be promoting their…
Reviews are dead. Long live reviews!
There is no area of book publicity that has changed more over the last few years than the ‘book review’. Traditional reviews – the ones…
Kindle Instant Preview reinforces Amazon’s dominance
Ebook preview widgets have been around for quite awhile but when was the last time you saw one on a blog or website? I can’t…
Getting found in translation
In 2015 there was a much needed push for works in translation. In October Amazon announced it was making a $10m (£6.5m) investment in AmazonCrossing…
1000 Fake Reviewers: What does publishing’s underbelly say about us?
Once again the practice of faking bad reviews has made the headlines, but this time Amazon is the good guy. The online book retailer has…
Publishing 2020: an Advent Calendar of change
In the run up to Publishing: the next 5 years, BookMachine will be featuring a number of opinions about what might be next for the…