Amazon Announces Winners in 6th Annual Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award

Amazon has announced the winners in the sixth annual Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. “Ten thousand entries came in from around the world—the most entries ever in the history of the contest—and after several rounds of judging, Amazon Publishing …

Barnes & Noble Launches NOOK Press

Barnes & Noble today announced the rebranding of its indie author platform, PubIt!, as NOOK Press, and are promoting the new service as “Self-Publishing Made Simple”. It is intended to be an innovative publishing platform offering authors …

How to Use Goodreads as an Author

See Full Version at Goodreads At the end of March, Amazon announced that they have reached an agreement to acquire Goodreads, so I thought it would be a good time to review how authors can use this web site and social network. Founded in 2007, Goodread …

10 Reasons Why Authors Should Be On Google Plus

This blog post is no longer relevant since Google shut down Google Plus, but we have kept it here for historical reference. article In case you haven’t heard already, Google+ has now passed Twitter to become the 2nd largest social network in terms of a …