by Dan Brady | Apr 5, 2025 | General
In an era increasingly dominated by digital content, printed books still hold a special place in many readers’ hearts and minds. Despite the rapid growth of digital formats such as ebooks and audiobooks, millions of people continue to choose the tangible,...
by Dan Brady | Feb 14, 2025 | Marketing
I’ve seen how pre-orders can be both a powerful tool and a potential pitfall – they aren’t always the smart choice. This guide explores whether to use pre-orders for your next book release. A pre-order system enables readers to purchase your book ahead of...
by Dan Brady | Feb 10, 2025 | Marketing
Goodreads is a powerful platform for authors to get book reviews, connect with readers, and boost your book’s visibility. Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to use Goodreads effectively to get more reviews: 1. Set Up Your Goodreads Author Profile Sign up for a...
by Dan Brady | Feb 4, 2025 | General
ukbookpublishing.co.uk is NOT US (we are .com) Starting last year (2024), we became aware of a company impersonating our brand via ukbookpublishing.co.uk (we are .com). They have fraudulently claimed our published books as theirs to dupe unsuspecting authors. We have...
by Dan Brady | Jan 6, 2025 | Royalties
Note: this article is for UK authors, who are using Amazon KDP and/or other distributors directly (not through a publisher). As a UK author selling books in the US market (e.g. Amazon), understanding your tax obligations might seem daunting at first. However, with the...
by Dan Brady | Dec 19, 2024 | Book design
As a self-publishing author, you’ve poured your heart into your book, but here’s the truth: readers often judge a book by its cover – and fast. In a crowded online marketplace, a weak cover can bury your book, no matter how good the story inside. Professional-quality...
by Dan Brady | Dec 17, 2024 | Editing and proofreading
In the competitive world of self-publishing, where readers can choose from millions of books, producing error-free writing is more critical than ever. Whether you’re launching your debut novel or releasing your tenth self-published book, the quality of your...
by Dan Brady | Dec 4, 2024 | Amazon, General
Amazon restricts book details that can be changed, after a book is published. And this includes your author name. The scenario I am describing here is if you have misspelled your author name in Author Central, and you need to fix it to match the correct author name as...
by Dan Brady | Dec 2, 2024 | Amazon, Marketing
Amazon has recently introduced video-enabled Sponsored Brand Ads – a new opportunity in how authors can promote their work on the world’s largest bookstore. The game-changing aspect of this update is that authors no longer need an extensive catalogue to access...
by Dan Brady | May 1, 2024 | Amazon, Marketing
Amazon’s Author Central is a fantastic, free tool for authors. It’s important to merge or “link” your book editions on Amazon — Kindle, paperback, hardcover, audiobook formats — under a single title. This way, all formats are displayed together, making it...
by Dan Brady | May 1, 2024 | Amazon
Do you have multiple Author Central accounts at Amazon that you need to merge? Here’s how to do it. Log in to the UK Author Central account that you want to keep, then click here to go to the relevant page for merging author pages. Or, for the US Author Central,...
by Dan Brady | Feb 22, 2024 | Amazon
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...
by Dan Brady | Jan 30, 2023 | Royalties
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...
by Ruth Lunn | Feb 2, 2022 | Amazon, Ebooks, Royalties
For authors with ebooks on Amazon, in your royalty report you may see up to three Amazon KDP lines for each ebook, each corresponding to the type of ebook sale: Standard – a regular purchase of your ebook. Free – Promotion – how many Amazon customers ordered...
by Dan Brady | Dec 14, 2020 | Amazon, Marketing
So you’re published on Amazon, congratulations! But have you set up your Author Page? And why is that important? This article will help you get started. What is Author Central? Author Central is how Amazon allows authors to manage their presence on Amazon. And,...
by Ruth Lunn | Nov 12, 2020 | Editing and proofreading
When an author sends their finished manuscript to us, this is the start of an exciting process – publishing your book. And the first stage is usually copyediting or proofreading. First, let’s explain the difference: Proofreading a manuscript covers grammar, spelling,...
by Ruth Lunn | May 6, 2020 | Ebooks, General
One of the unexpected consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic has been the removal of VAT from ebooks. Previously, although printed books are zero-rated for VAT, ebooks and online subscriptions have not been exempted. In March, UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced this...
by Phoebe Bower | Sep 7, 2018 | General
An idea for a book can brew in your mind like a warm cup of tea but getting it down on a page is only half the job… Once a book is written, the next logical step is publishing. The development of independent publishing has opened the market to new authors who...
by Ugne Rinkeviciute | Aug 8, 2018 | General
One thing most employed people don’t have to deal with, but we creatives do, is legally protecting their projects – the babies of months and months of hard work. Unfortunately, as much as we’d like to build forts around our books and surround them with an army of...
by Ugne Rinkeviciute | Jul 16, 2018 | General
To know for sure how book reviews influence sales is hard to gauge. There are many factors that may lead people to purchase a book: boredom, amount of free time to fill, how long it’s been since their last pay day, an impending long train journey… However, there’s one...
