Fraud Blocker

Changing your author name on Amazon

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...

Amazon Sponsored Brands video ads for Authors

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...

Link your book editions in Author Central

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...

How to merge two Author Central accounts

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,...

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...