Hardback Books on Amazon: A Guide for Indie Authors

Hardback books have always been popular. A 2019 poll on Goodreads revealed data to back this up: more than 40% of readers expressed a preference for hardback books over their paperback counterparts. Traditionally, indie authors didn’t have the option for...

The royalty process at UK Book Publishing

This article explains how our royalty processes work at UK Book Publishing. Publisher compensation As a publisher, we receive “publisher compensation” payments from our distributors such as Amazon and Lightning Source. These are the ‘gross’ or...

What are the ‘Legal Deposit Libraries’?

In the UK, it’s every publisher’s obligation to send at least one copy of a published book, free of charge, to the British Library. This has been in English law for printed books and papers since 1662 (and for electronic publications since 2013). Since...