Question of the Week: Have you used or do you plan to use Pronoun, Street Lib, or Publish Drive? If so, what’s your experience been so far. If not, what’s keeping you away?
A wild week in publishing news means we’ve got TONS to talk about, including two big-time indie launches, several aggregator platforms going head-to-head, and Kobo Plus. After thanking our patrons the Hat Trick Series, Monkey Justice, and The Dragon Rustler, the broad-shouldered broadcasters of self-publishing took on tips about piracy, income, and mailing lists. News stories included Amazon continuing to crack down on affiliates, Qidian, a huge launch by Adam Croft, Kobo Plus, a triple-threat match between self-publishing aggregators, and Mark Dawson’s $29,000 thriller launch. This week’s Question of the Week: Have you used or do you plan to use Pronoun, Street Lib, or Publish Drive? If so, what’s your experience been so far. If not, what’s keeping you away?
What You’ll Learn:
- Why authors shouldn’t waste time worrying about piracy
- How authors can improve their finances by abandoning a paycheck mentality
- How authors can improve mailing list strategies based on one author’s data
- How one thriller writer became the number one bestseller in the US and UK
- What Amazon is changing in its affiliate program and how it affects authors
- How Street Lib and Publish Drive stack up to other publishing platforms
- How authors and readers can participate in China’s web novel self-publishing
- What authors and readers can expect from Kobo’s unlimited subscription service
- How a bestselling author achieved the best book launch of his career
Links:
- Don’t Walk the Plank
- Rainy Day Pay
- A Tale of Mail
- Affli-Quit (1)
- Affli-Quit (2)
- The Great Wall of Content (1)
- The Great Wall of Content (2)
- The Great Wall of Content (3)
- Double Decker Bestseller (1)
- Double Decker Bestseller (2)
- Double Decker Bestseller (3)
- Kobo Unlimited (1)
- Kobo Unlimited (2)
- Kobo Unlimited (3)
- Kobo Unlimited (4)
- Platforms on Parade (1)
- Platforms on Parade (2)
- Platforms on Parade (3)
- Platforms on Parade (4)
- Platforms on Parade (5)
- Platforms on Parade (6)
- Marksmanship
Question of the Week: Have you used or do you plan to use Pronoun, Street Lib, or Publish Drive? If so, what’s your experience been so far. If not, what’s keeping you away?