Jim and Bryan took on a big week of news in the self-publishing with their latest episode. After Bryan officially announced the latest March to a Bestseller event (available at http://www.marchtoabestseller.com ), the tag team re-featured one of their $3 patrons, Sandy Williams and her book Shades of Treason. They also took on tips about whining, selling on iBooks, and collaboration. The news stories included the ad-blocking iOS9 browser, the latest month of KU earnings, getting readers to finish books, Amazon’s server outage, and Google’s acquisition of Oyster. This week’s Question of the Week is: Do you think Google will try to compete in the book subscription market? How else do you think Oyster’s integration will impact the Google Play store?

• How to be a part of March to a Bestseller 3
• Why Konrath said some authors should quit
• How to take advantage of the iBooks platform
• Ways to align yourself with a collaboration partner
• How ad blockers could impact the digital publishing industry
• Where KU ranks among the book selling platforms
• Why getting readers to buy may not be enough
• What the Amazon server crash means in the long run
• How Oyster could change the Google Play store

• March to a Bestseller 3 
• Gentle Giant
• 3 Million Reasons
• It Takes Two
• Block Party
• KU KO
• Step Two
• Outage Outrage
• Totally Shucked

Question of the Week: Do you think Google will try to compete in the book subscription market? How else do you think Oyster’s integration will impact the Google Play store?