Episode 210 – Missing Pages, Tacotron, and Great on Kindle

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Question of the Week: If someone jailbroke all the ebooks in the world and posted them online for free, how would your author business change?

How would your life as an author change if someone posted all ebooks online for free? Jim and Bryan are back for more fun in the world of publishing. They start of by thanking their generous patrons: Shades of Treason: An Anomaly Novel, Ten Little Bridesmaids, and Time Code: The Best Collection of 52 Stories You Should Be Reading This Year. This week’s hot tips include why authors should use every tool at their disposal to promote their audiobooks, how authors can craft their marketing strategy by understanding website analytics, and how authors can increase production and decrease adverse health effects with proper use of dictation. In the news, Kindle Create’s new version now includes support for formatting books in a number of new languages, the writers at Quartz found out Google’s new text-to-speech system sound indistinguishable from a human voice, why Amazon has filed suit against a UK self-publisher, and how multiple authors are losing thousands of dollars after a massive readjustment in earnings this past week. Question of the Week: If someone jailbroke all the ebooks in the world and posted them online for free, how would your author business change?
What You’ll Learn:
  • Why authors should use every tool at their disposal to promote their audiobooks
  • How authors can craft their marketing strategy by understanding website analytics
  • How authors can increase production and decrease adverse health effects
  • What Kindle Create’s new version now includes
  • How Google’s new text-to-speech system sounds indistinguishable from a human voice
  • What’s Amazon’s new marketing scheme for non-fiction books
  • Why Amazon has filed suit against a UK self-publisher who was allegedly scamming the system
  • Why multiple authors are losing thousands of dollars in Amazon’s KDP program
Links:
News #1: Collateral Damage (2)
News #1: Collateral Damage (3)
News #1: Collateral Damage (4)

Question of the Week: If someone jailbroke all the ebooks in the world and posted them online for free, how would your author business change?

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