Sentences with phrase «on your author platform now»

You need to be working on your author platform now.

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As the network seems poised for change — recently, LinkedIn announced that it will soon allow anyone to publish content on its platform (much as LinkedIn Influencers do now)-- I talked with David Gowel, CEO at RockTech, and author of The Power in a Link: Open Doors, Close Deals, and Change the Way You Do Business Using LinkedIn.

Speaking of a system bulging with debt protruding from every crevice, Jim Quinn's Burning Platform featured a must - read article yesterday in which the author has discovered that the Loan - To - Value Ratio on Fannie Mae - issued mortgages is now at its highest level in history — nearly 10 % higher than at the peak of housing bubble 1.0:

What may be more astonishing — and therefore upending — to literary critics is that women are now the top - selling authors by far on a number of book retailers» sites and self - publishing platforms, including Smashwords and Kobo, largely due to the popularity of romance and erotica.

Bella Andre, Lucy Kevin, Barbara Freethy, and HM Ward have signed on to allow their popular titles to be included in the platform, meaning the fans of those authors» works can now publish and sell their own adaptations of the characters and story lines that spoke to them.

She did become my confidante and mentor, and when the timing was right, I was thrilled that she jumped at the chance to present me to Lisa Hagan, literary agent, who signed me on the spot (this was after I self - published my first three books, developed a large author platform, sexual abuse advocacy, signed with a (now - defunct) hybrid publisher, wrote another book, directed an imprint, and have two works in progress and another series in the hopper).

I can tell you this: as the former director of the now - defunct Gravity Imprint for Booktrope, the books that sold the most were where the authors did everything on that list above — they interact with readers, build their platform, generously share others» posts and content, blog consistently, and have a clear, strong message.

Other news from the Kobo and Aqufadas collaboration is still pending, as the group continues to work on a self - publishing platform for children's book authors and graphic novelists; the first step for Kobo was to develop a children's bookstore to sell that content, and that is now viable.

An author platform is now a result of building a network of social connections on the internet.

You are now a published author whose book is on the largest platform reaching readers worldwide.

2) BARNES & NOBLE (claims to have 27 % of the ebook market, must create account on «Pubit», only U.S. authors for now, market very limited, free to publish, royalties 65/30, can change price at any time, can publish to other platforms)

Pronoun now also allows authors to distribute to only specific retailers of their choosing, giving those who already publish on other platforms flexibility to take advantage of Pronoun's new rates.

A release from ebook developer Vook today announced that Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet will now accommodate embedded videos in ebooks, which is long - awaited news for authors who have until now not been able to promote and sell their titles on one of the largest retail platforms for ebooks.

Short of creating coupon codes on other platforms that can be passed around without limitation, or requiring authors to email PDF files of their books to reviewers and other recipients, until now there hasn't been a good streamlined method of releasing professional ebook content to limited users.

Even more good news for authors who are self - publishing on the Kindle platform is that Amazon now offers a free Kindle reading app that anyone can download to enable reading Kindle books on a variety of devices including smartphones, tablets, and desktops.

Now that you've spent time developing your author platform, you've had the opportunity to streamline and set up your systems and profiles on a variety of sites.

Now that I have two books on Amazon for Kindle, and many more in the pipeline, I've been working hard on building my author platform.

But clearly Amazon built the platform on the backs of indie authors, and now has pushed us aside in favor of traditionally published books.

By contrast, self - published authors on Amazon's platform keep 70 % of the total purchase price.6 Let's now look at revenue from the author's perspective:

We have one author, for example, who went from being on six platforms to only two, and instead of doing a public Facebook account, she now has a members - only VIP group.

Based on sales in February, Amazon Publishing now ranks as the 5th largest publisher on the US Kindle platform (excluding free downloads but including KOLL loans, for which we pay authors).

Build my Author Platform: I committed to writing twice a week on this blog and have now posted over 100 blog posts consistently every week.

In a post on author platform Kobo Writing Life, Tamblyn confirmed that «the vast majority» of self - published Kobo Writing Life titles are now available again on Kobo.com in the UK.

These below are more inline with the later - day movements in social media, platform choices etc — many of which need to be considered by new writers considering the traditional publishing route also — because many traditional publishers now insist on seeing a growing author's platform before considering submissions.

Now, the focal point of this self - publishing course is going to be how to build an author platform and that is a rather broad subject, so we're going to be breaking it down into eight different chapters where you can expect to learn how to connect with your readers, how to find your book's audience, how to promote your book, information on self - publishing, and even ebook promotion.

Ron Callari presents Self - Publishing for Graphic Novelists posted at BookWorks, saying, «Previously, we've reported on a number of automated publishing platforms now available for self - publishing authors.

Audible (s AMZN), the digital audiobook site owned by Amazon that launched audiobook rights platform ACX in 2011 as a way for authors and publishers to profit from their unsold audiobook rights, is now lowering the royalties it pays on those audiobooks.

Nate Hoffelder presents Twitter Launches Buy Buttons, Enabling Authors to Sell eBooks on the Service posted at The Digital Reader, saying, «Twitter is now beta testing a new embedded buy button that could one day enable authors to sell ebooks from inside Twitter's platform.Authors to Sell eBooks on the Service posted at The Digital Reader, saying, «Twitter is now beta testing a new embedded buy button that could one day enable authors to sell ebooks from inside Twitter's platform.authors to sell ebooks from inside Twitter's platform.»

Even now with the e-book business exploding and many mid-list authors doing the Heimlick maneuver on their backlist so the books can live again on the kindle platform, the big six dummies still don't get it.

Because of you I now have two blogs, an author platform, (face book and twitter) and am on my way to finishing my first novel and novella.

Indie authors can now sell their books in over 170 countries through online distributors like Amazon KDP, iBooks, Kobo and Nook, and it is free to self - publish on those platforms.

Disclosure: the author was provided with a copy of this game by the developer for the purpose of this review Developer: Nauris Amatnieks Platform: PC There Was A Caveman is available now on Steam Caves... the first frontier... these are the journeys of some nameless caveman.

Previously the company has strict rules on who could edit files, but has now opened up the platform so that basic authoring and editing can used regardless of whether the user pays for Office 365.