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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 Ruth Lunn | May 6, 2020 | General, Ebooks
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...
by Ugne Rinkeviciute | Jul 12, 2018 | General
With the ever-growing number of self-publishing authors, effectively marketing your ebook really is the key to success. There are so many tools and methods available already, from self-promotion on social media to freebie chapters, that this entrepreneurial part of...
