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“Amlet AI creates a tool that allows authors to make it known to machine to developers that their work can be licensed and is available and that they expect to be compensated.” - Julie TrelstadIn this How To Write the Future podcast episode, titled “AI Content Licensing for Authors: Julie Trelstad,” host Beth Barany interviews publishing professional, Julie Trelstad. Julie shares her publishing journey, what AI content licensing is, and how authors and publishers can protect themselves against copyright or AI theft by using the newly created Amlet AI.Amlet AI is a platform where authors can register books with machine‑readable metadata to enable licensing, compensation, and control over AI training use; it covers European deadlines, opt‑out options, ISCC standards, metadata enrichment.ABOUT JULIE TRELSTADJulie Trelstad is the founder of Paperbacks & Pixels, where she coaches authors on building publishing platforms with AI as a collaborator. She has been in publishing since 1989. Originally trained as an architect at Columbia and Parsons, she ran the Architectural Graphic Standards franchise at John Wiley & Sons, acquired Sarah Susanka's The Not-So-Big House at The Taunton Press, served as Director of Digital Rights at Writers House, and led US Publishing at StreetLib. She is also Head of US Publishing at Amlet AI, an AI rights registry helping authors and publishers participate in AI licensing on fair terms.https://paperbacksandpixels.comRun a free AI-driven autopsy on your book description with resuscitation instructions. paperbacksandpixels.com/book-description-autopsyInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/paperbacksnpixelsLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/julietrelstadABOUT THE HOW TO WRITE THE FUTURE PODCASTThe How To Write The Future podcast is for science fiction and fantasy writers who want to write positive futures and successfully bring those stories out into the marketplace. Hosted by Beth Barany, science fiction novelist and creativity coach for writers. We cover tips for fiction writers and get curious about the future of humanity.ABOUT BETH BARANYBeth Barany is an award-winning fantasy and science fiction novelist and creativity coach for writers. They help novelists write, revise, and publish stories that matter—blending practical craft guidance with a big-picture commitment to imagination, meaning, and possibility.SHOW PRODUCTION BY Beth BaranySHOW CO-PRODUCTION + NOTES by Kerry-Ann McDadeEDITORIAL SUPPORT by Iman Llompartc. 2026 BETH BARANYhttps://bethbarany.com/Questions? Comments? Send us a text!Support the show---♦︎ JOIN THE MEMBERSHIP: For fiction writers! You've finished your first draft! Congrats! Now what?Join the Edit the Future: Sci‑Fi/Fantasy Revision Lab. Get premium weekly lessons and a monthly Q&A on Zoom. Subscribe: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2012061/subscribe♥︎ FREE: Sign up here for the Edit Your Novel ChecklistHelps writers revise faster with less overwhelm by focusing first on diagnosis, not fixing. Get yours at http://edityournovelchecklist.com.♡ SHOP: Sci‑Fi & Fantasy 24 Writing Prompts: https://ko-fi.com/s/4ac9160a74❤️ Want to be interviewed on the podcast? => Email us!CONNECT WITH BETHvia emailvia LinkedInCREDITSEDITED WITH DESCRIPT (Affiliate link)MUSIC: Uppbeat.ioDISTRIBUTED BY BUZZSPROUT: https://www.buzzsprout.com/?referrer_id=1994465

How is the German market different to English speaking markets, and why might it be worth looking into translation? What are the best ways to translate, self-publish and market your books in German? With Skye MacKinnon. In the intro, thoughts on feeling empty after a book, and the benefits of SubStack for authors [Stark Reflections; Wish I'd Known Then]; AI-Assisted Artisan Author webinars 16 and 23 May. This episode is sponsored by Publisher Rocket, which will help you get your book in front of more Amazon readers so you can spend less time marketing and more time writing. I use Publisher Rocket for researching book titles, categories, and keywords — for new books and for updating my backlist. Check it out at www.PublisherRocket.com This show is also supported by my Patrons. Join my Community at Patreon.com/thecreativepenn Skye MacKinnon is the award-winning, USA Today bestselling author of over 70 books across romance and children's books under multiple pen names, most of which are also available in German, which is her bestselling market. Her latest book for authors is Self-Publishing in German: How to Translate, Publish and Market Your Books. You can listen above or on your favorite podcast app or read the notes and links below. Here are the highlights and the full transcript is below. Show Notes Why the German-speaking market is much bigger than just Germany, and which genres sell best there Title protection laws, the Impressum, and translator copyright How to find and vet human translators, and what a quality translation actually costs The current state of AI translation for fiction, and why quality assurance passes are essential Distribution decisions: the Tolino Alliance, Skoobe, libraries, and why IngramSpark doesn't work in Germany Marketing in German: BookDeals, LovelyBooks, ads, BookTok, and why pre-orders matter even more You can find Skye SkyeMacKinnon.com and her children's books at IslaWynter.com. Transcript of the interview with Skye MacKinnon Jo: Skye MacKinnon is the award-winning, USA Today bestselling author of over 70 books across romance and children's books under multiple pen names, most of which are also available in German, which is her bestselling market. Her latest book for authors is Self-Publishing in German: How to Translate, Publish and Market Your Books. Welcome, Skye. Skye: Hi. Thank you so much for having me. Jo: This is such an interesting topic. But first up— Tell us a bit more about you and how you got into writing and publishing. Skye: I've always loved writing, but I was always told, “Well, you can't be an author. Get a proper job.” So I became a journalist and did that for a few years, but there was always that love of creative writing. At some point when I was getting more active on social media, I was following some other indie authors and realised they're just like me. They're not special people. I had always pictured authors as these mythical beings high up above the rest of us. That gave me the courage to put out my own book. I self-published from the start, never even looked into trad publishing, and that was in 2017. I was really lucky because my first series totally hit it off. I was able to quit my job a year later and I have been a full-time author ever since. I started with romance and then, by accident, got into children's books. Which has been great fun. I don't even have children myself, but it's just that palette cleanser in between. Writing about cute animals and unicorns and just bringing some fun into everything. Nowadays I have about five or six pen names, depending on how you count, across genres, although most of it is romance, and that's my bread and butter really. Jo: Yes, I'm certainly one of those people who wish I could write romance. It always just seems to be the most profitable market in any language, I guess. Let's get into the book. It's a fantastic book. I've been through it myself. It's really packed full of everything you need, so we can't cover everything. Let's start by considering the German language in general. Why is German a good language market to consider expanding into? And for anyone who might not realise, why is it more than Germany? Skye: Well, Germans love to read, and depending on the statistic that you look at, they're generally seen as the third largest book market in the world after English and Mandarin Chinese. So it's a huge market, even though you think of Germany as a small little country in Europe. As you said, it's much more than Germany. Yes, you've got about 83 million people in Germany, but then you've also got Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, parts of Belgium, Luxembourg, and even Italy. So if you look at the whole footprint on the map, it is much bigger than just the one country. A lot of young people there still read and go to bookshops. There's a huge bookshop culture. You will find, if you go to a high street there, way more bookshops than you do here in the UK, for example. There's demand for quality and for really gorgeous books. They have been way ahead of the curve when it comes to special editions and sprayed edges, and they also like translations. I found one statistic where about two thirds of all newly released titles in German are actual translations. Readers are used to translations, but until a few years ago it was all trad-published translations. So this transition is coming now. It's coming very, very fast, especially with AI. They generally are very open to translations as long as the quality is there. Jo: So what about specific genres then? Obviously we mentioned romance there, and romance is not just one genre anymore. Whatever they're writing— How can somebody tell if it's worth expanding into German? How do we do this? It takes time and effort and money, potentially. Skye: It can take a lot of money, so it is worth doing research. There's one easy way, which is just looking at your current sales and looking at how many books you're selling in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland at the moment in English. That can give you an indication of which of your books might be already quite popular there. Sometimes it's quite surprising. A lot of my books sell very differently in German than they do in English. I've got one series that did okay in English, and I almost didn't translate it. The German version is, I think, my second bestselling series in German and has completely surprised me. So sometimes it's worth just experimenting a bit. Otherwise, obviously as you said, romance is doing really well. There are a few surprises though. I had a chat with Draft2Digital and they gave me lots of information from their statistics, and they said about 40% of all the western title sales on Draft2Digital are actually in Germany, which is just a huge percentage. Jo: In English? Skye: Across languages. Jo: Mm-hmm. Skye: Germans, to be fair, they love their westerns. My dad in Germany, he has been watching westerns for I don't know how many decades. It is one of those things that is just really popular there. Another thing is anything that is set in other countries and really has the location as almost like a character. There's lots of Cornwall, Scotland, different islands, but also mountains and cities. So if your book is set in, even in New York City, if it has a clear setting—if it's not just that it could be any city—then that's a good one to think about translating. In general, most genres can do well. There's a few where you have to be a bit careful. Second World War books, for example. If you have a book that portrays every single German as a Nazi and as evil, it might not do as well in Germany. So some common sense when it comes to historical books. Otherwise, just look at German retailers, look at what is selling there—and not just Amazon. Places like Thalia, which is part of the Tolino Alliance, and they have about 40% of the market. So it's really important to look at them too, and not just at Amazon. Jo: We'll come back to the distribution in a minute. There are some important differences between the German market and the US/UK market. Obviously we're talking about a different language, but of course there are a few things that are different that some people might not think about. So give us a few of those things that people definitely need to think about. Skye: Okay, so even before you start publishing, you need to be aware that title protection is a thing in Germany. Your book can't have the same title as an already published book. That is a law that is basically there to avoid readers being confused. So if you had five books with the same title, readers might not realise which book is by which author. You have to do your research and check if anyone else is using your title. There are some exceptions—if it's a completely different category, so if there's a children's book with that title but you write spicy romance, then the chance that the reader gets confused is much lower. Quite often you can then contact either the author or the publisher and ask, “Can I get written permission to use that title?” I did that for one of my series and it was totally fine. Just be sure to get it in writing, because if your book suddenly becomes a huge bestseller, they might reconsider. So title protection is an important one. You need to research that before you publish. One thing that people sometimes get confused about is reusing their English title. That's totally fine because it's your own title. So if your English title hasn't been used and you want to keep that same title, that works. It's just about other people's books where you can't use those titles. Another important legal bit is the Impressum. It's the copyright page. To be fair, websites that are targeting German readers or a German audience have to have that Impressum. It's usually on page two of the book, and it has things like your legal name, your address, and then the usual things like the translator's name, cover design, and other things you would usually put on a copyright page. The problem is that technically you need to put your legal name in there unless you have a limited company, in which case you can also put the business name there, and your address. A lot of people obviously don't want to do that for privacy reasons, especially romance authors where it's sometimes a bit sketchy when it comes to some readers who get a bit too obsessed. There are services where you can pay a monthly or yearly fee and then use their address. It's a bit of a legal grey zone, but a lot of German authors are doing it because—especially as indie authors—we don't always want to put our legal address out there. Jo: Just for people listening, I use my accountant's address. That's quite common. I mean, you have to share your address on your email for anti-spam laws and all that kind of thing. As you say, there are ways to use other addresses. That just needs to happen. What else then do we need to think about? Skye: There are things about the translator. A lot of things that people are sometimes scared about is when they hear that there is a copyright issue with translators and they think, “Oh, my translator has the copyright. I can't do anything.” Actually, the translator is seen as an author—almost like a co-author of the translation in German law—because, to be fair, it's not just putting one word into another. Translation is quite a creative job, especially when it's fiction. It is a very creative job where the translator has to put a lot of their own creativity into it. So in German law, they're recognised as the creator of that translation and therefore have certain rights. But you as the author, as soon as you have a contract with your translator—which is why you always, always, always have to have a contract—you get the usage rights. This means it's exactly the same as with your English books. You can do with them what you want. You can get audiobooks, you can do print books, you can do whatever you want in different formats. It just needs to be clear in a contract that the translator is giving you the usage rights of that translation. That's something that people sometimes find a bit scary, but actually it's really simple. Translations have been done for so long. It's a normal thing. It's just called slightly different. It has to be set out in a contract. Jo: Just on that, that's when the translator themselves is in Germany, because if they are based somewhere else, still doing a German translation, that's not necessary. So that's something else for people to consider. Skye: Yes, definitely. To be fair— I would always try to get a translator based in the country. I mean, I'm a native German speaker, but I've been in Scotland for so long now that I am not confident enough to translate my own books anymore because I'm not surrounded by German 24/7 and my grammar is slightly off and I don't have that up-to-date, modern lingo. So if it's a translator who's only just moved somewhere else or a few years, that's fine. But if it's someone who's been in the US or UK or somewhere else for 20 years, I would be a bit more hesitant. That's just a personal perspective on that. One other thing that's different is Sie and du. There are two different kinds of “you” when you talk to someone. There's the formal Sie, which you use basically amongst adults, in business contexts. But even my German grandma—she had a friend and they used the formal Sie for about 10 years as friends because in German etiquette, the older person has to offer the younger person the informal du, and they never did that for some reason. We found it hilarious as kids that they were still using the formal Sie as really good friends. So there's an entire culture there that people who haven't been to Germany or haven't lived there for a while just find a bit difficult, because there are so many different unwritten rules about when you use Sie and when you use the informal du. It's weakened a bit over the years and nowadays even strangers would sometimes use the informal du depending on the context. It really depends. A good translator will usually handle that themselves. They will find a scene where, for example, especially in romance, you meet as strangers in the beginning, so you use the formal Sie, and then at some point that formality turns to informality. The translator will usually choose that moment and add a little extra scene or a sentence where they either offer it to each other or they just naturally switch into it. But then there might be an internal little monologue of, “Oh, he just used the informal du—I guess we're at that stage,” or, “I really appreciate that.” Just to make it more natural, because that's something I quite often see with AI translation where that doesn't happen, and readers get confused. Why did they just switch from Sie to du without any kind of acknowledgement of that? Jo: This is the same in Spanish and other languages, I imagine. Skye: Yes, French as well. Italian too, I think. A lot of European languages have this. Jo: I think that's something that English speakers just don't get. It is a really interesting moment. I guess that might not happen so much in other genres—that really is a thing in romance. I was just thinking about some of my thrillers. They may never have time to get to du. Skye: But then sometimes using du can also be a rude thing. So if you have an antagonist who really doesn't like your protagonist, they might just use du as a rude sort of address. Again, that's something that English speakers just wouldn't understand or even think of because we just have the one “you.” Jo: We just have the one. Jo: It's the tone. Of course, it's the tone. Skye: Exactly, yes. Jo: Okay, well let's get into the actual translation of the books themselves. Over the years I've worked with lots of humans. I've also licensed my rights. I've used different AI tools. I mean, there are tons, but as we record this— What are the options that are available for translations? Give us some tips on working with humans and finding humans. Because it can be super pricey. And of course most of us will never know about the quality until we publish it. Skye: Oh, yes, definitely a note on that. I found that quite often you will already have German people on your newsletter list or on your social media, and most of them will be super happy to give you some feedback on your translation. That's something I've used a lot. Not for German, because I speak the language, but when I did French and Italian translations. My French is—well, it used to be quite okay. It is passable at best now. So I would never feel confident enough to rate a translation. So I asked my newsletter list, “Are there any French people here who would be happy to read the book? I'll send you a free copy at the end, and some swag.” There were a surprising number of people who got back to me. The same applies to German and other languages, because if you don't speak the language, you sometimes lack the confidence of knowing if this is any good. Getting some reader feedback is super helpful. For finding human translators, the easiest of course is word of mouth, and I'm a big fan of that because you get instant feedback on whether someone is good or not and whether it's easy to work with them. Then there are freelancer platforms. Reedsy is one where everyone is vetted, so that's pretty good. But there are tons of other ones like Upwork and Fiverr, though there you have to do all the vetting yourself, so that takes a lot more time and effort. There are also more and more agencies—translator agencies who specialise in doing indie book translations. There's Literary Queens, there's Valentine Translations, there are tons of them. Then there's also, which I think a lot of authors ignore or don't know about, translation databases. There are two databases for German translators, for example, where you can search and you can usually narrow it down to whether you want literary translators, what kind of fiction or nonfiction you want. An important thing is that a literary translator is very different from a standard translator who translates birth certificates or formal documents. You want someone who has experience with fiction if you write fiction. Someone who knows about adding drama through language. Sometimes, for example, when you have an action scene, you might have shorter sentences. If you have someone who doesn't know about stuff like that, they might just think, “Oh, in German it sounds really nice to have this really long sentence.” Those little nuances are where having an experienced literary translator is a big bonus. There are some platforms that do royalty-split translations that have been quite popular in the past. Most of them I wouldn't really recommend because you just don't get those professional translators there. You usually get people who speak the language but don't really have much experience. So you might end up with a pretty bad translation, or people might just be using AI translations without telling you. If you use a human translator, always, always get a sample, because yes, they might have amazing credentials, but until they've actually translated one of your books or a scene from your book, you don't really know how good they are. I like to always use, if I write romance, a slightly sexy scene, because sex seems to show you if someone can translate or not. It's just what I've found, because if it sounds absolutely awkward or more like mechanical rather than an emotional, spicy thing, then that's a clear point for me to say, “No, thank you. I'll look for someone else.” Action scenes, sexy scenes, really emotional ones, dialogue that has a bit of colloquial language or humour—those are good scenes to choose as a sample because that really shows you if a translator can do their job or not. Then, again, have some German people from your list give you feedback on that. Also, if you work with human translators, always try to make sure that they will be available for your entire series. And not even just a series—if you have lots of books, try to grab that translator, lock them in your basement, and never let them go, because you want their style for all your books. Just like you have a style as an author, translators have a style and that will always shine through, as much as they try to be as close to your original. A bit of their style will always come through. It helps to have the same translator for at least the same series, preferably for as many of your books as possible. You really want to tell them in the beginning, “This series has nine books. I want you to do all of these, even if we only do a few of them at the beginning. Are you available to do the rest later?” Because you don't want to end up having to find a new translator in the middle of the series. That gives you a whole lot of extra work with trying to have a world bible that explains which words get translated and which get left as the original, and stuff like that. When it comes to non-human translation, it's very different because of course you don't need to do all that vetting. Tools have different capabilities and abilities, but in the end, if you put your book into a translation tool, you will always get a slightly different output. So it's not quite the same where you need an entire vetting process. Jo: Just on the human translation, I think I'd be right in saying that every single author in the world would love to have the best human translator translating their book, whatever genre it is. That would just be amazing for all of us. But let's face it, that's extremely expensive. So if I've got, let's say, a 70,000-word thriller, how much money are we talking about? An approximate number, so people know what that might be. Skye: Usually it goes by the word, but by the target language word count. Although it depends on the translator, traditional translators usually go by the target language because that's what they actually produce as their output. The average at the moment is anything from about seven to nine euro cents per word as the medium price. You will find cheaper people. You can go up as high as you want really. I have definitely seen translators who charge 15 cents and above per word, but those will usually be the ones who have worked with a lot of trad publishers who are used to being paid like that. Although even in trad publishing, the rates are going down. With more and more authors wanting translations, I think in general rates are going down. Good for us, not so good for the translators. You're definitely looking at thousands, even if you translate novellas. Then it depends—some translators have editing included, sometimes they don't. A lot of them will have arrangements with other translators where they give the translation to another translator for them to edit it. Sometimes that's included in the price, sometimes it's extra. Always make sure it gets edited, because just like when we write a book, it will never be exactly perfect. I say that as someone who writes very clean because I have a journalism background, so I'm used to writing really fast and clean for deadlines, but there will always be a few typos that just wriggle their way in. Typos are evil like that. It's the same with translations. Jo: So we are probably looking at 2,000 to 10,000 pounds, dollars, euros. We are talking about quite a lot, and this is the main reason I think that now, with AI becoming a lot better, people are looking at this. Originally—and I don't even know, probably eight years now since I did my first, might even be a decade or more—I did at some point do a version in DeepL, which was an early AI translation tool. This was nonfiction, and then paid an editor, a German editor, to then edit that in German. Those books still get good reviews. But now people are looking at options like GlobeScribe and ScribeShadow, or even just using Claude or ChatGPT. I'm actually working at the moment on a Claude Code pipeline through lots of different QA passes. That's been really interesting for me, because I can say, “Okay, now you are a reader who likes these kinds of books. Read it for that.” And because we can now put really big books in, I can actually get a lot of really interesting feedback. So I feel like there's a lot of potential with AI—potential for good stuff, potential for bad stuff too. So talk a bit about that and what to watch out for with AI. Skye: Okay, so I'm very much pro-AI and I use AI in lots of different things in my business, just to preface that. However, with translations, I'm still a bit wary, just because I have seen a lot of bad AI translations. To be fair, I've experimented with it myself for one of my other pen names. It was readable. It was definitely readable. It had sometimes beautiful, gorgeous prose. Really. But there were, occasionally—quite often even—bits where I stumbled as a native speaker. It's readable and, if I just need a little quick book in between, I would be mostly happy with that. I would read it. It's the same as some of the early KU days where you found a lot of bad quality writing, but you just wanted to read it because the story was pretty good or because you were reading it in KU and so it didn't really matter that much. There is that spectrum of quality where you have the, “Yes, it's good enough to read,” but, “Is it good enough to be up to your standards?” That's a decision that everyone has to make for themselves. If they want the same quality that they put into their English book, or if they're fine with just offering that book to a new audience because maybe you wouldn't be able to do it otherwise. I totally see that. Translation is so expensive. I don't even know how much I have spent on translations over the past few years. I'm lucky that most of my books make it back within the first weeks or months. I've never had a book that didn't make its money back, but I have heard a lot of people where that's not the case. It is a lot of investment and I would never tell someone to go into debt or anything to do translations. Do it when you're at a time where you can afford it, or where you can also afford the loss if it doesn't work out. Now, AI has changed that slightly because it now opens it up to almost anyone. Some of the AI translation tools are a few hundred pounds, but if you do it in Claude or ChatGPT or something where you already have a subscription, it can actually be quite cheap. You can do it for a few dollars or pounds. I love, by the way, having someone in the UK. I'm so used to automatically saying everything in dollars, but actually I should be using pounds. I think if you know what you're doing—and you clearly do, with your several passes, you know what you're doing with AI—but if someone just puts their book into Claude or ChatGPT or some random tool, it might just not be good enough. Jo: Let's say it won't be good enough if you just do that. We know that. You have to have QA passes—quality assurance. You have to have rules per genre. There are ways of doing it. It's kind of like you have to get to know how translation works. It's a process. It's not just a translation, like you put something in Google Translate or a menu or something, because we do care. I think that's really important. Skye: Yes. I think if you don't know how AI works—that you need detailed prompts, that you need a style guide, that you need all that extra material and not just your book, all those rules—then please don't do it. If you value your German readers—and I think sometimes when I see people just churn out those translations without doing any quality control, using exactly the same cover or even just putting a German flag on it or something—I really feel bad for German readers because they're not being valued as having the same sort of value to us as authors as our English-speaking readers. Maybe I'm a bit biased there because I read in multiple languages. I want to be able to get the same sort of quality in all languages. I want the author to think of me as being special because I'm their reader and I'm their customer. I think we are on the way where AI translation can be almost autonomous. I would personally always have a human look over it. I know what I'm doing, and I'm almost happy with my translation system that I've built now in AI, but it still needs that human touch for a few things. It still needs me to tell the AI, for example, “This is where we switch from Sie to du.” This is where I need to keep certain words in. For example, I write a lot of Scottish books, and so words like “glen” or “loch”—they are words I want to stay the same in my German translation. I don't want to translate it to the German equivalent of “lake” because that just misses that Scottish context. Things like that need instruction. A human translator will usually know that and chat to you about which words you want to keep and which ones you want translated. AI just needs our guidance, our helping hand, and if we don't know enough about the target language, we just miss knowing that. Now, a lot of tools do it all for you basically, and they set up all these rules. I think many of them are at a very advanced stage now. But AI isn't perfect and it likes to hallucinate, it likes to add random things. So I will always still have a human touch at the end, even if it's just a quick edit. A lot of people think that they just need a proofread after an AI translation, but AI doesn't really make typos—or not to an extent that humans do. So proofreading isn't really what's needed for an AI translation. It is actual editing where you go for the style, the phrasing, and sometimes the context. There's one example I always like to give. I have an alien romance where they go on a honeymoon, and because he's an alien and she's human, he misunderstands and thinks she wants to go to an actual moon. So it's a little pun in the book. It doesn't work in German at all because the word “honeymoon” has nothing to do with moons or planets in German. An AI would probably just try to translate that in a way that's quite close to the original. But my German translator, she had to come up with several different ways of fixing that issue, because humour is hard. It's hard even for humans to get the humour translated in a way that is still funny but also culturally appropriate. If you have a book that is full of puns, it gets harder with AI. I am not saying it's impossible, but it needs a lot of handholding. Jo: Yes, I think humour is hard to translate in general, isn't it? Let's move on to the distribution, because again, having done quite a lot of different languages over the years, I do use Amazon KU for my books in German and Italian and Spanish and some French. So I haven't gone wide in terms of ebook and print or audio, in fact, because I have a lot of books and it is hard to go wide in English, let alone in other languages. But you mentioned earlier that Thalia has 40% of the market or something, and that special editions and print books are important. So what are the decisions we have to make around the actual publishing? Skye: In Germany they did a really cool thing, and I wish they'd done that in other countries. When the bookshops saw that Amazon was growing and posing a threat to them—not just with print books but also with ebooks—a lot of the German bookstores got together and they formed the Tolino Alliance. They have big book chains like Thalia, but also I think it was over 1,500 indie bookshops that all got together. They all support this ecosystem for ebooks, which means they all share the same e-readers. They share the same sort of backend for the shops, which made it really easy for them because they didn't all have to develop an ebook system. It saved them a lot of money. It made it really easy to tell readers, “This is the Tolino system. You can get your books at our bookshops, but you can read them on your Tolino e-reader no matter where you get the books from.” The Tolino e-readers are actually the same as Kobo e-readers, just rebranded. They've got that big advantage there—these independent bookshops and book chains all got together. Now it's hard to find numbers because Amazon doesn't really like to share their numbers, but it's about 40% of the German ebook market, which means it rivals Amazon. They have about the same. Then the rest is split by Apple Books, Google Play, and some of the smaller players. So it is a huge chunk of the market. I'm wide with pretty much all my English books. So for me, I looked into KU, but when I saw that I was going to miss out on 60% of the market—even if Amazon has 45%, that's still a big chunk—I decided to go wide. To be fair, I haven't regretted it, because Tolino are amazing to work with. I like to compare them to Kobo because they have a really lovely human team where you can just email them and tell them, “I've got a new release coming up,” and they will put you into different promos and it's all free. Jo: Do you publish direct to Tolino, or do you use Draft2Digital? Skye: Yes, you can publish direct to Tolino and that's actually the best way of doing it. You don't have access to their marketing opportunities if you use a distributor. The Tolino dashboard is annoyingly all in German, but by now every browser has a translating plugin built in. I know lots of authors who don't speak a single word of German who navigate Tolino very successfully. They started with only ebooks in the beginning, and then about two weeks after the first edition of my book on German translations was published, they introduced print books, which meant my book was immediately out of date. I was fuming. But this time they introduced audiobooks a few weeks before my Kickstarter launch for the second edition, so this time the audiobook part is included. I was very happy about that, because it was a pain to just tell everyone, “Well, this book is out now but it's actually missing a big part of how to do print books in Germany.” So Tolino does print, ebooks, and audiobooks. And just because you're in KU with your ebooks doesn't mean you can't publish your print books via Tolino. I highly recommend that, because IngramSpark—which most of us indies use for distribution for print books—doesn't get you into the German bookstores. They used to. Then German stores have fixed price laws where books have to be the same price in all stores, and IngramSpark kept going against that. They kept sending them the wrong prices. So German bookstores at some point just said, “Nope, we've had enough of this. We no longer take books from IngramSpark.” So now Tolino, in my opinion, is the best way of getting your books listed in German online bookstores, but they can also help you get into brick-and-mortar stores. One of my books was featured by them, I think two years ago, and it was in about 300 of their shops all across Germany. It had its own little pedestal and it was amazing. Tolino love working with their indie authors. They also love romance, which is always a bonus because some stores are more prudish than others. It's really easy to work with them. They speak perfect English, so you can do all your communication outside of the dashboard in English. Their audiobooks feature is very new. Until they did that, it was much harder for German audiobook distribution because places like Findaway Voices and other distributors wouldn't get you into the Tolino Alliance stores for audio. That's a big chunk that we were missing out on. I was always looking for ways to get my German audiobooks into those stores, but the German distributors that I found were really difficult to upload to, to be honest. I'm a very technical person, but it challenged even me. I did not like that experience at all. At some point I really just gave up and wanted to throw my computer out of the window. So when Tolino introduced that, I was celebrating internally. The only problem with their distribution at the moment for audio, because it's so new, is that you can't exclude any shops. So it's all or nothing. They will get you into all the different places, including Audible, Spotify—you name it, lots of different streaming services and retailers—but you can't exclude any. So while they don't actually want exclusivity, if you published it yourself at the same time through ACX or Findaway Voices or something else, you would have duplicates, and of course, we try to avoid those. Jo: Is it human narration only, or do they also accept AI narration? Skye: They accept AI narration. The thing with Tolino is that they want everything made very clear. If you publish any books with them that have an AI production aspect, you need to put that into your Impressum. For audiobooks, there's a box to tick to make it clear. Jo: Hmm. Skye: So they are open to it all. You just need to declare it. Jo: Which I think should be true everywhere, to be fair. Skye: Oh, definitely. And a lot of German distributors—while I was researching for this book, one thing I always looked at is, “Do they need you to declare your AI use?” More and more German distributors and retailers now want you to do that. I think that's the way it's going. It's not a judgement thing. I think it's just making it clear to readers. In Germany, it's all about transparency. That's why there are all those laws with GDPR—everyone will have heard about that one by now. But there are lots of other laws where it's all about consumer rights and transparency, and that's one of them. Jo: Is there anything else on the distribution side we need to think about? Skye: One thing I like to highlight is libraries, because that's quite a big thing in Germany too. They love books and bookstores and they love libraries. Some of the ways we get our English books into libraries—like a distributor like Draft2Digital for OverDrive—OverDrive is growing in Germany. There are other systems like Onleihe, just to name one. You can't get into those through, for example, Draft2Digital or PublishDrive or StreetLib. Tolino gets you into those. There are also subscription platforms that are growing. I think it's the same as in the English-speaking market. People love a subscription, and I love them. I just don't like exclusivity. So I very much support any subscription platform that doesn't require me to be exclusive to them. Skoobe is one of them. They used to be an independent platform, and then the Tolino Alliance bought them. So now they're integrated into the Tolino stores. That means it's really prominent. Basically, any time you go to an ebook on, for example, Thalia, it will have a banner there saying, “You can also get this in our subscription.” So it's taken a while to grow, but actually in December I now made more with their subscription programme than I made in book sales. I think three of my books were in their top 10 in December. To be fair, that was a pretty good month. But it definitely shows that it can take a while to grow these subscription platforms, but when you do, it can be really successful and very much worth it. So I highly suggest looking into those sorts of platforms too, not just the standard retailers and the platforms that you're already used to. Jo: Fantastic. So we've now got translations, they're on the various stores, and then just like in English, one of our next challenges is actually marketing the books. Now this becomes another challenge, because one of the reasons I am in KU for foreign languages is because you get the five free days and you can do Amazon ads. I mean, you can do Amazon ads for wide books too, but it's easier to know that there are some options for marketing at all. I don't do email marketing. I don't do social media, so I'm pretty bad at marketing in foreign languages. So what are your suggestions for those who want to do more active marketing in German especially? Or even if we don't speak German, it can't be all the personal stuff. But are there also advertising things like BookBub? What are our options basically? Skye: There are quite a few things. It's not quite as easy as in English, of course, but I think sometimes you have to remember that you already have most of the material for marketing when you've released a book. You will have made graphics in English, you will have written a newsletter, you will have done some social media posts. All that material is already there, so you don't have to reinvent the wheel. You can just translate that, and for that, AI translation is really good because it's very quick. You don't have to bother your translator. You can just get that done. That's what I had to remind myself, because in the beginning I did everything from scratch and it took me forever and I was hating it. Then I realised, well, I could just look at the newsletter I wrote three years ago when that book released in English and translate that. That's done within a minute and I can send that out. So remember that you have a lot of content already. There's no BookBub or nothing as big as BookBub. There is a site called BookDeals, which sends out newsletters for both reduced or free books and also for new releases. I use them for pretty much all my new releases, or at least always the first in series. They're nowhere near as big as BookBub, so don't expect miracles, but I generally always break even or a bit more. It's hard to tell, of course, especially if you do several things for a new release. But my instinctive look on this is that it's worth it. BookDeals is the big one. There are a few other promo sites, but to be honest, I've not really found any of them to give me a positive ROI. I experiment with them occasionally and I listed them all in my book just for completeness, but BookDeals is the big one. Then there is LovelyBooks, which is the German Goodreads. Some Germans also use Goodreads, so always make sure to have all your German books listed there. But LovelyBooks is the big one. I love that place because people are so much kinder than on Goodreads. I avoid Goodreads completely. If I need a review, I send my assistant there to look at reviews. I don't go there. It is scary. LovelyBooks—the name is kind of telling. It is a more lovely place. People are generally more friendly. They are probably a bit more critical when they write reviews than they are on retailers, but I have found it really nice to build a community there. You can do these book clubs where you give away a copy of your book, either as print books—or I always do ebooks because I don't want to send books to Germany. Then people discuss the book as a sort of book club and then they review it at the end. I have had great success with that. I've built up a community of readers who will now buy my books too, even if they don't get them for free. I found some beta readers through that. So I love LovelyBooks. The annoying thing again is it's in German. However, their support all speaks English and you can email them with questions. They're really good. Even if you don't plan to run any book clubs or anything like that because you don't speak the language, I would always advise just setting up an author profile there because it makes it easier for your books to be found. You can track reviews, you can track reads, and that just gives you an extra place to get more visibility for free. Ads—there's not much difference compared to what you do for your English-language books. The one thing is with Facebook ads, now because of EU data protection laws, it's much harder to target because people can opt out of ads and targeting. In general, cost-per-click ads are cheaper than in the US or the UK, so that's a bonus. BookTok is big and only growing there. I don't really do social media for my German books because I just don't have the bandwidth. I wish I could, and I know some people who outsource that. In an ideal world, I would have a social media account for every single language, but it's not an ideal world and I just have limited hours in the day. But even just creating an account so that people can tag you, so that people can find you, can already be a good start. One thing that's not maybe a marketing strategy as such, but something I like to highlight, is pre-orders. If you write in series, always, always make sure that the next books in your series are up for pre-order, because— German readers have been burned so many times by authors or even publishers who just translate book one in a series and then stop. They are quite hesitant sometimes to start a new series when they see it's book one of something and they don't see the next book up for pre-order. To be fair, it's similar in English. I always make sure to have a pre-order up for the next book. Because people would just not read the series until it's complete or until they know it will be complete at some point. So always set up a pre-order if you can. Don't set it up when you don't actually know when your translation is being done, or choose a date far in the future. Just make it very clear to your readers that you are intending to translate the entire series, that you're not going to disappoint them, that they're not just wasting their money on a book one only to never find out what happens next. Jo: Fantastic. Well, this is a big decision for people to make, I think, because there's no point in doing one book in German and then not doing anything else, in the same way as doing one book in English or any language. You have to think about investing in an audience. So lots for people to think about. The book is fantastic. It's called Self-Publishing in German. So where can people find you and your books online? Skye: For my author-facing things, just go to SkyeMacKinnon.com/authors, and there you find the book about German translations. You also find more information on what I do. You can book consultations with me. I love doing those one-to-ones, especially about translations, because you can really dive into someone's catalogue and look at what would be a good strategy for someone, rather than just in general. Otherwise, it's SkyeMacKinnon.com for all my romance. If you want adorable children's books, it's IslaWynter.com. That's Wynter with a Y. Jo: Brilliant. Well, thanks so much for your time, Skye. That was great. Skye: Thank you so much for having me.The post Self-Publishing in German: How to Translate, Distribute, and Market Your Books with Skye MacKinnon first appeared on The Creative Penn.

In this episode, Becky interviews Julie Trelstad, who is currently the head of U.S. Publishing. They dive into her 30+ years of experience guiding authors and publishers throughout the publishing industry. Julie also outlines her partnership with Streetlib to create powerful new tools and software, including Amlet, which is the world's first ISCC registry designed for the AI era. To learn more, visit amlet.ai.

To set your books and audiobooks up for the best chance at success, you need to make your titles available to purchase in as many retail outlets as possible. Author and book publishing consultant Erin Wright joins “Inside Independent Publishing (with IBPA)” to share her expertise about the most effective methods to distribute books and audiobooks to as many retail sites as possible, including details about how to best use IngramSpark, Draft2Digital, PublishDrive, Author's Republic, Bookvault, and more for your publishing goals.PARTICIPANTSErin Wright is a full-time contemporary western romance author, but unless you're a fan of sexy cowboys, you've probably heard of her instead because of her work in the Wide for the Win Facebook group. She conned Suzie O'Connell (close writing friend and fellow cowboy romance author) into co-founding the Facebook group back in March of 2019, and has been avoiding writing books by posting in the group ever since. If you're thinking about going Wide, or if you're already Wide and just want to connect with other Widelings, be sure to come join Erin in the largest group on the internet for Wide authors. She'd be thrilled to have you!Independent Book Publishers Association is the largest trade association for independent publishers in the United States. As the IBPA Director of Membership & Member Services, Christopher Locke assists the 3,600 members as they travel along their publishing journeys. Major projects include managing the member benefits to curate the most advantageous services for independent publishers and author publishers; managing the Innovative Voices Program that supports publishers from marginalized communities; and hosting the IBPA podcast, “Inside Independent Publishing (with IBPA).” He's also passionate about indie publishing, because he's an author publisher himself, having published two novels so far in his YA trilogy, The Enlightenment Adventures.LINKSLearn more about the many benefits of becoming a member of Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) here: https://www.ibpa-online.org/page/membershipMake sure to connect with Erin for her consulting at work https://erinwright.net/consulting and https://erinwright.net/authors, as well as in the Wide for the Win Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/wideforthewinFollow IBPA on:Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/IBPAonlineX – https://twitter.com/ibpaInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/ibpalovesindies/Follow Erin on:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@erinwrightLVFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/pg/AuthorErinWrightPinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/erinwrightbooksTwitter: https://twitter.com/erinwrightlvBookBub: https://www.bookbub.com/authors/erin-wrightInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/authorerinwrightGoodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/erinwright

Amazon officially closed down Kindle Vella this past week. Smashwords is running their annual Read an Ebook Week, find out how this is an incredible promotional opportunity. The Kindlepreneur Dave Chesson just rolled out updates for his Book Description Generator. Barnes & Noble Press shared details about their partnership with the audiobook platform Author's Republic. ProWritingAid rolled out a new feature called Manuscript Analysis. And so much more for the self-publishing news this week. Book Award Pro - https://DaleLinks.com/BookAwardPro (affiliate link) Subscribe to The Self-Publishing Hub - https://TheSelfPublishingHub.com Subscribe to my email newsletter - https://DaleLinks.com/SignUp  Join Channel Memberships - https://DaleLinks.com/Memberships  Join Me on Discord - https://DaleLinks.com/Discord  Check out my main YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@DaleLRoberts My Books - https://DaleLinks.com/MyBooks Wanna tip me? Visit https://dalelroberts.gumroad.com/coffee. Sources: Smashwords' Read an Ebook Week - https://DaleLinks.com/Smashwords Bestseller Book Launch Plan - https://DaleLinks.com/BestsellerBook  Kindle Vella Update FAQ - https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/GUJHP3574Z3DLPZD  Kindlepreneur's Book Description Generator - https://DaleLinks.com/HTML (affiliate link) ProWritingAid's Manuscript Analysis - https://help.prowritingaid.com/article/318-what-is-the-manuscript-analysis?afid=6615 (affiliate link) Author's Republic + Barnes & Noble Press - https://crm.authorsrepublic.com/bnpress March Authortunities Newsletter by Angela Yuriko Smith - https://authortunities.substack.com/p/5-legacy-mags-acquired-by-1-paragraph Streetlib on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@streetlib-us Where noted, some outbound links financially benefit the channel through affiliate programs. I only endorse programs, products, or services I use and can stand confidently behind. These links do not affect your purchase price and greatly helps to building and growing this channel. Thanks in advance for understanding! - Dale L. Roberts

Spotify announces their new program Spotify for Authors, but it's through publisher invite only. Audible audiobooks are now available on the streaming service for Amazon Music Unlimited. And, GetCovers reveals a report with over twenty solid tips for gathering more reviews on Amazon. All that and more in the self-publishing news this week. Book Award Pro - https://DaleLinks.com/BookAwardPro (affiliate link) Subscribe to The Self-Publishing Hub - https://TheSelfPublishingHub.com Subscribe to my email newsletter - https://DaleLinks.com/SignUp  Join Channel Memberships - https://DaleLinks.com/Memberships Join Me on Discord - https://DaleLinks.com/Discord Check out my main YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@DaleLRoberts My Books - https://DaleLinks.com/MyBooks  Sources: Authors Guild Applauds Final Court Decision Affirming Internet Archive's Book Scanning as Copyright Infringement - https://authorsguild.org/news/ag-applauds-final-court-decision-affirming-internet-archive-book-scanning-as-copyright-infringement/ KDP: Kindle Vella Wind-Down - https://www.kdpcommunity.com/s/article/Kindle-Vella-Announcement?language=en_US Laterpress - https://Laterpress.com Why Settle for 70% Royalties? Discover How to Earn 100% with Laterpress - https://www.youtube.com/live/wvGz9sUvcOs?si=7RROaa-Ey6__gGII  ElevenLabs - https://elevenlabs.io/ Spotify Launches Spotify for Authors, a New Platform For Audiobook Authors & Publishers - https://authors.spotify.com/blog/spotify-for-authors Amazon Music: Audiobooks from Audible are now included - https://www.amazon.com/music/i/audiobooks Streetlib: Produce Your Book with Streetlib - https://www.streetlib.com/book-services/  GetCovers: How to Get Reviews on Amazon: 20 Tips - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ajU262q5PkmepZ8dGtacCRFCsvbso80A/view Miblart Advent Calendar for Indie Authors - https://miblart.com/advent-calendar-sign-up/?ref=daleroberts5 Dibbly Create: New Research Tools & Image Generator - https://DaleLinks.com/DibblyCreate (affiliate link) Stark Reflections Podcast: Episode 391 – Networking for Authors with Dale L. Roberts - https://starkreflections.ca/2024/12/06/episode-391-networking-for-authors-with-dale-l-roberts/ Why Your Author Website Isn't Selling Books with Pauline Wiles - https://www.youtube.com/live/VBOxM5Y7ys0?si=7_QzyX8LJpsfk0Cr Authortubers review Networking for Authors - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVrC50nqY3OKDsPfW9VhlHjC_6t2nWoaC Self-Publishing with Dale series on Amazon - https://DaleLinks.com/SelfPubWithDale. Special pricing is good through Sunday, December 15. $2.99 for book 1, $4.99 for books 2-5. Authentic Book Reviews - https://getauthenticbookreviews.com  Where noted, some outbound links financially benefit the channel through affiliate programs. I only endorse programs, products, or services I use and can stand confidently behind. These links do not affect your purchase price and greatly helps to building and growing this channel. Thanks in advance for understanding! - Dale L. Roberts

Audible announces a new royalty model for indie authors publishing direct to their platform while signaling they aren't quite ready to roll it out for ACX account holders. Alessandra Torre is selling a part of her company Authors AI, but is it truly worth $8 million dollars? And, ProWritingAid unveiled their new branding with a statement by the CEO and founder of the company. All that and more in the self-publishing news this week! Subscribe to The Self-Publishing Hub - https://TheSelfPublishingHub.com  Join Channel Memberships - https://DaleLinks.com/Memberships  Join Me on Discord - https://DaleLinks.com/Discord Check out my main YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@DaleLRoberts  Sources: Book Award Pro - https://DaleLinks.com/BookAwardPro (affiliate link) A new chapter for ProWritingAid - https://prowritingaid.com/new-chapter?afid=6615 ProWritingAid - https://DaleLinks.com/ProWritingAid (affiliate link) Kindlepreneur - https://kindlepreneur.com/ Self-Publishing for New Authors - https://DaleLinks.com/NewAuthors  Dibbly Create - https://DaleLinks.com/DibblyCreate (affiliate link) Authors A.I. - https://authors.ai/  GET A PIECE OF AUTHORS A.I. (Start Engine) - https://www.startengine.com/offering/authorsai  Audible's New Royalty Model: More Opportunities for Authors and Publishers - https://www.audible.com/about/newsroom/audibles-new-royalty-model-more-opportunities-for-authors-and-publishers Streetlib - https://streetlib.com  Win $250 in Reedsy's weekly short story competition - https://blog.reedsy.com/creative-writing-prompts/contests/ Kindle Storyteller Award - https://www.amazon.co.uk/b?ie=UTF8&node=12061299031  Authors Guild Launchpad: Platform Building for Self-Publishing Authors - https://authorsguild.org/event/ag-launchpad-platform-building-for-self-publishing-authors/ Authors Guild Launchpad: Marketing and Promoting Self-Published Books - https://authorsguild.org/event/ag-launchpad-marketing-and-promoting-self-published-books/ Dibbly presents Time Traveler's Guide: Crafting Captivating Historical Fiction Epics - https://omniform1.com/forms/v1/landingPage/5b8fd6e4597ed708a4080856/6699402ed7d48ea3b4e80740 Children's Book Mastery Summit - https://childrensbookmastery.com/childrens-book-mastery-online-summit-2024-registration How to Attract Book Clubs to You and Your Book with DiAnn Mills - https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0od-Csqz4iH9AbR1I4RLyut-h4Du7qsJVw#/registration  Credit:  The Alliance of Independent Authors - https://DaleLinks.com/ALLi (affiliate link)  The Hot Sheet - https://hotsheetpub.com  Where noted, some outbound links financially benefit the channel through affiliate programs. I only endorse programs, products, or services I use and can stand confidently behind. These links do not affect your purchase price and greatly helps to building and growing this channel. Thanks in advance for understanding! - Dale L. Roberts

Amazon KDP changed their recommendations for keywords and the Kindlepreneur Dave Chesson shared his thoughts. Streetlib rolled out seasonal promotional opportunities for account holders. Michael La Ronn shared insights into Amazon Ads. And, Draft2Digital CEO Kris Austin sheds light on the progress of the Smashwords migration. All that and more in the self-publishing news this week! Sources: Streetlib Promos - https://community.streetlib.com/c/retail-promotions-hub  From Motionflick Studios to Snow Day Film - https://writerbeware.blog/2024/06/07/from-motion-flick-studios-to-snow-day-film-the-evolution-of-a-book-to-film-scam/ Amazon Keyword Rules: New Update! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40YxlvuTcXQ   Optimize Your Amazon Ads for Holiday Events - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSRqVCNH5ac  Smashwords Account Migration Updates - https://www.draft2digital.com/blog/migration-updates/ May 2024 Bestseller Lists - https://hotsheetpub.com/2024/06/may-2024-bestseller-lists/?mc_cid=f3e119581e&mc_eid=433332c881 You're invited: Is your book idea a winner? - https://mailparrot.reedsy.com/subscriptions/new?list_id=ae935a9336&utm_source=mailparrot_newsletter&utm_campaign=marketplace_live_pitchwars&utm_medium=email  Credit: The Hot Sheet - https://hotsheetpub.com Subscribe to The Self-Publishing Hub - https://TheSelfPublishingHub.com Join Channel Memberships - https://DaleLinks.com/Memberships Join Me on Discord - https://DaleLinks.com/Discord Check out my main YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@DaleLRoberts  Where noted, some outbound links financially benefit the channel through affiliate programs. I only endorse programs, products, or services I use and can stand confidently behind. These links do not affect your purchase price and greatly helps to building and growing this channel. Thanks in advance for understanding! - Dale L. Roberts

Over the past few weeks, I've shared some of the best Audiobook Creation Exchange (ACX) alternatives for publishing audiobooks. However, there are a few self-publishing companies that offer audiobook publishing as one of three publication types. Today, let's compare a few aggregate publishing companies that handle distribution to Amazon, Audible, and beyond! Kobo Writing Life - https://kobowritinglife.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360059385511-How-to-Upload-Your-Audiobook-Directly-on-Kobo Google Play Books - https://support.google.com/books/partner/answer/7626222?hl=en Streetlib - https://www.streetlib.com/markets/audiobooks/ PublishDrive - https://publishdrive.com/publish-audiobook.html BookBaby - https://www.bookbaby.com/audiobooks KDP - https://www.kdpcommunity.com/s/article/Invite-Only-KDP-Beta-for-Audiobooks?forum=KDP%20Forum&language=en_US Book Funnel - https://blog.bookfunnel.com/2020/the-bookfunnel-of-audiobooks/ Subscribe to The Self-Publishing Hub - https://TheSelfPublishingHub.com Join Channel Memberships - https://DaleLinks.com/Memberships Join Me on Discord - https://DaleLinks.com/Discord Check out my main YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@DaleLRoberts Where noted, some outbound links financially benefit the channel through affiliate programs. I only endorse programs, products, or services I use and can stand confidently behind. These links do not affect your purchase price and greatly helps to building and growing this channel. Thanks in advance for understanding! - Dale L. Roberts

Curious about who offers the best royalties for self-publishing? Join us as we explore top platforms like Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), IngramSpark, and Draft2Digital. Discover which company offers the best deal for authors, whether you're publishing on Amazon, Apple Books, or other platforms like StreetLib and Lulu. 10 Best Places to Publish eBooks (2024) - https://youtu.be/bb6235uI4VY?si=t48EA0ELE7cbvyj8  The Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi) - https://DaleLinks.com/ALLi  (affiliate link) Mentioned services: Barnes & Noble Press - https://press.barnesandnoble.com/ Apple Books for Authors - https://authors.apple.com/ Google Play Books Partner Center - https://play.google.com/books/publish/u/0/ Kobo Writing Life - https://kobowritinglife.com/ Amazon KDP - https://kdp.amazon.com/ Smashwords - https://www.smashwords.com/ Gumroad - https://gumroad.com/ Lulu - https://lulu.com/ Payhip - https://payhip.com/ StoryOrigin - https://DaleLinks.com/StoryOrigin (affiliate link) Laterpress - https://laterpress.com/ Streetlib - https://www.streetlib.com/ XinXii - https://www.xinxii.com/ Draft2Digital - https://DaleLinks.com/D2D (referral link) PublishDrive - https://DaleLinks.com/PublishDrive (referral link) IngramSpark - https://ingramspark.com/. Use DALE2024 to waive one update fee in 2024. Bookvault - https://bookvault.app/ Use BVDALE to waive three upload fees. Blurb - https://blurb.com/   Subscribe to The Self-Publishing Hub - https://TheSelfPublishingHub.com  Join Channel Memberships - https://DaleLinks.com/Memberships Join Me on Discord - https://DaleLinks.com/Discord  Where noted, some outbound links financially benefit the channel through affiliate programs. I only endorse programs, products, or services I use and can stand confidently behind. These links do not affect your purchase price and greatly helps to building and growing this channel. Thanks in advance for understanding! - Dale L. Roberts

Explore Bookrix, a potential alternative to KDP, and assess its worth in 2024. Delve into Bookrix's publishing process, discover insights into self publishing a book, and learn about Bookrix royalties. Evaluate whether Bookrix suits your self-publishing needs and navigate the world of lesser-known KDP alternatives. BookRix - https://www.bookrix.de BookRix and StreetLib unveil cutting-edge self-publishing platform for the German market - https://blog.streetlib.com/bookrix-and-streetlib-unveil-cutting-edge-self-publishing-platform-for-the-german-market/ Streetlib Review - https://youtube.com/live/KuTPstgMh2s  Subscribe to The Self-Publishing Hub - https://TheSelfPublishingHub.com Join Channel Memberships - https://DaleLinks.com/Memberships Join Me on Discord - https://DaleLinks.com/Discord  Where noted, some outbound links financially benefit the channel through affiliate programs. I only endorse programs, products, or services I use and can stand confidently behind. These links do not affect your purchase price and greatly helps to building and growing this channel. Thanks in advance for understanding! - Dale L. Roberts

Discover Streetlib as a noteworthy alternative to Amazon KDP, exploring its features, legitimacy, and whether it's the right choice for your publishing journey. Uncover insights into Streetlib's reviews, worthiness, and its role in the landscape of self-publishing. Learn about the process of publishing both print and audiobooks on Streetlib, gaining valuable information to make an informed decision about this alternative to Amazon KDP. Explore the nuances and considerations that Streetlib brings to the table, helping you determine if it's the right fit for your publishing needs. Streetlib - https://streetlib.com/ Streetlib Community - https://community.streetlib.com/ Streetlib's Calculator - https://www.streetlib.com/en/distribution/book-printing-cost-and-royalties-calculator/ Amazon KDP Alternatives Spotlight: Streetlib with Julie Trelstad - https://youtu.be/x6S4Opa364s  Subscribe to The Self-Publishing Hub - https://TheSelfPublishingHub.com Join Channel Memberships - https://DaleLinks.com/Memberships Join Me on Discord - https://DaleLinks.com/Discord  Where noted, some outbound links financially benefit the channel through affiliate programs. I only endorse programs, products, or services I use and can stand confidently behind. These links do not affect your purchase price and greatly helps to building and growing this channel. Thanks in advance for understanding! - Dale L. Roberts

Victoria Strauss of Writer Beware breaks down the prevalent mindsets surrounding scams in self publishing. Aggregate publishing platform, Streetlib, offers a new short-run print program for US account holders. Smashwords officially announced niche-specific promotional days for their 15th Annual Read an Ebook Week. All that and more in the self-publishing news. Subscribe to The Self-Publishing Hub - https://TheSelfPublishingHub.com  Join Channel Memberships - https://DaleLinks.com/Memberships  Join Me on Discord - https://DaleLinks.com/Discord  Sources: The 15th annual Read an Ebook Week - https://www.smashwords.com/dashboard/sitewidePromos Coping With Scams: Suggestions for Changing Your Mindset - https://writerunboxed.com/2024/02/23/coping-with-scams-suggestions-for-changing-your-mindset/ Top 5 Book Cover Design Mistakes - https://DaleLinks.com/GetCovers (affiliate link) Streetlib: New Short-Run Print Program for US Publishers - https://blog.streetlib.com/new-short-run-print-program/ 15 Book Promotion Ideas to Boost Your Sales and Reach - https://blog.bookbaby.com/how-to-promote-your-book/book-promotion/book-promotion-ideas How to Publish Romance Series Worldwide in English and in translation - https://lu.ma/n3gdyhb5 KWL Live Q&A – Steamy Romance Author Roundtable with Cynthia Eden, K.A. Linde and Carly Phillips - https://www.youtube.com/live/bW-xkAeCLbI?si=BAtiUkRL4sfdnEfO Storiad - https://DaleLinks.com/Storiad - Use coupon code DALE25 for 25% off Storiad (affiliate link) Merch Jar - https://DaleLinks.com/MerchJar (affiliate link) Where noted, some outbound links financially benefit the channel through affiliate programs. I only endorse programs, products, or services I use and can stand confidently behind. These links do not affect your purchase price and greatly helps to building and growing this channel. Thanks in advance for understanding! - Dale L. Roberts

Amazon Product descriptions have changed in a pretty big way. Email marketing is experiencing a huge shake-up with massive changes coming through Google and Yahoo. And, GetCovers shows you how to spot AI-generated images through seven unique ways. All that and more in the self-publishing news this week! Subscribe to The Self-Publishing Hub - https://TheSelfPublishingHub.com Join Channel Memberships - https://DaleLinks.com/Memberships Join Me on Discord - https://DaleLinks.com/Discord  Sources: Audiobooks Are Booming. Spotify Wants in on the Action. - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/29/books/spotify-audiobooks.html How to Сheck if the Stock Image Is AI-generated: 7 Workable Ways - https://getcovers.com/blog/how-to-detect-ai-generated-images/ Streetlib Community - https://community.streetlib.com/ ProWritingAid presents: Romance Writers' Week 2024 - https://DaleLinks.com/Romance (affiliate link) BookMarCon - https://bookbrush.com/bookmarcon/ Author Interview with Dale L. Roberts - https://youtu.be/tQLu9_H-OUo?si=bk8nKAspgUBGKgS8  Credit:  The Hot Sheet - https://hotsheetpub.com  CraveBooks - https://cravebooks.com Reedsy - https://reedsy.com PublishDrive - https://DaleLinks.com/PublishDrive (referral link) Streetlib - https://streetlib.com Apple Books for Authors - https://authors.apple.com/  Where noted, some outbound links financially benefit the channel through affiliate programs. I only endorse programs, products, or services I use and can stand confidently behind. These links do not affect your purchase price and greatly helps to building and growing this channel. Thanks in advance for understanding! - Dale L. Roberts

The Kindlepreneur shared an updated strategy for maximizing the seven backend keywords slots on KDP. Streetlib updated their terms and conditions. An author loses his mind over a review. And, so much more this week in the self-publishing news. Subscribe to The Self-Publishing Hub - https://TheSelfPublishingHub.com  Join Channel Memberships - https://DaleLinks.com/Memberships Join Me on Discord - https://DaleLinks.com/Discord  News Sources: BookBrush's Full Service Social Media Management Services - https://bookbrush.com/social-media-management/ | For the job opportunity, contact CEO Josh Wiley at josh@brushmediagroup.com. Streetlib's Updated Conditions and Terms - https://streetlib-agreements.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/StreetLib_Hub_20220824_en.pdf Self-Published Science Fiction Competition Issues Statement After Author Has Meltdown About Judge's Review - https://file770.com/self-published-science-fiction-competition-issues-statement-after-author-has-meltdown-about-judges-review/#comments  IngramSpark: Share & Sell Your Book (US only) - https://www.ingramspark.com/e-commerce  7 Kindle Keywords: Use All 50 Characters or Not? [UPDATED] - https://kindlepreneur.com/7-kindle-keywords/ eBookFairs: Book Cover Grader - https://ebookfairs.com/Home/Book-Cover-Grader Pod Pro Author Coaching - https://www.theindyauthor.com/services---pod-pro-author-coaching.html Lulu: How to Get Started Successfully as an Author - https://event.webinarjam.com/register/68/qrqmosmk Writing & Publishing Master Class with Andy Maslen | Reedsy Learning - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-publishing-master-class-with-andy-maslen-reedsy-learning-tickets-808859890707 How to Get Started with Amazon Ads: Reaching More Readers Podcast - https://selfpublishingadvice.org/podcast-amazon-ads/ Self-Publishing with Dale Podcast Reviews: https://chartable.com/podcasts/selfpublishing-with-dale-l-roberts/reviews/d5Tm26oB Special thanks to these sources: LaterPress - https://LaterPress.com CraveBooks - https://CraveBooks.com Draft2Digital - https://Draft2Digital.com Findaway Voices - https://FindawayVoices.com David Gaughran - https://DavidGaughran.com  Where noted, some outbound links financially benefit the channel through affiliate programs. I only endorse programs, products, or services I use and can stand confidently behind. These links do not affect your purchase price and greatly helps to building and growing this channel. Thanks in advance for understanding! - Dale L. Roberts

Overdrive reports a record-breaking year for digital checkouts exceeding 662 million. 20Books Vegas may have seen their last year in 2023, but Author Nation founder, Joe Solari, is carrying on the annual conference with fresh ideas and new concepts. And, the Kindlepreneur Dave Chesson rolled out a new article about Keywords that Sell Books: Broad vs Niche Keywords. All that and more in the self-publishing news! The Self-Publishing Hub - https://theselfpublishinghub.com Join Channel Memberships - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl9CjdZQtzufqgYx0CidSbA/join  Join my community at: Discord - http://dalelinks.com/discord  Sources: OverDrive Users Borrowed 662 Million Ebooks, Audiobooks and Digital Magazines During 2023 - https://www.infodocket.com/2024/01/04/overdrive-users-borrowed-662-million-ebooks-audiobooks-and-digital-magazines-during-2023-19-increase-over-2022/ The Alliance of Independent Authors - https://dalelinks.com/alli (affiliate link) The Next Strategic Step On Your Author Journey And Author Nation With Joe Solari - https://www.thecreativepenn.com/2024/01/08/the-next-strategic-step-on-your-author-journey-and-author-nation-with-joe-solari/ Author Nation 2024 - https://www.authornation.live/ Publisher Rocket - https://DaleLinks.com/Rocket Keywords that Actually Sell Books: Broad vs Niche Keywords - https://kindlepreneur.com/broad-vs-niche-keywords/ Streetlib's Book Promo with Apple - https://r.send.streetlib.com/mk/mr/sh/7nVTPdZCTJDXP4ZFwEKPDuIkXZmlANG/48igcxiCcCdM Live Editing Session with Tom Bromley | Reedsy Learning - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/live-editing-session-with-tom-bromley-reedsy-learning-tickets-795988672547 Create Your Ultimate Authorship Plan for 2024 with Audrey Hughey - https://event.webinarjam.com/register/67/81yx3by6 The Ins and Outs of Self-Publishing with Melissa Addey - https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEqcuyqqz8vHdP3v1kLzrvnliEHe62Ga6H2#/registration 6th Annual Women In Publishing Summit - https://womeninpublishingsummit.com/2024-women-in-publishing-summit-aff 100 Livestreaming & Digital Media Predictions, Volume 4 - https://geni.us/hxRW  Where noted, some outbound links financially benefit the channel through affiliate programs. I only endorse programs, products, or services I use and can stand confidently behind. These links do not affect your purchase price and greatly helps to building and growing this channel. Thanks in advance for understanding! - Dale L. Roberts

More stories roll out about the Goodreads review bombing fiasco. Spotify draws more criticism over new streaming audiobook service for premium members. Amazon Ads updated to features including Sponsored Brand Ads and Video Ads. And, there's a ton more of information and details to start out our new year! The Self-Publishing Hub - https://theselfpublishinghub.com Join Channel Memberships - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl9CjdZQtzufqgYx0CidSbA/join Join my community on Discord - http://dalelinks.com/discord  Sources: Amazon Advertising - https://advertising.amazon.com New York Times vs Microsoft & OpenAI - https://nytco-assets.nytimes.com/2023/12/NYT_Complaint_Dec2023.pdf Streetlib's Promos - https://r.send.streetlib.com/mk/mr/sh/7nVTPdZCTJDXP4ZFwEKPDuIkXZmlANG/h1jmTC46pY7b American authors join forces amidst concerns about audiobook royalties on Spotify - https://goodereader.com/blog/audiobooks/american-authors-join-forces-amidst-concerns-about-audiobook-royalties-on-spotify IngramSpark: Better Marketing with Ingram ID - https://www.ingramspark.com/ingramid_nextbookpromo ‘It's totally unhinged': is the book world turning against Goodreads? - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/dec/18/goodreads-review-bombing Scandal Rocks Publishing as Debut Author Is Linked To Fake Goodreads Accounts That Review Bombed Peers - https://www.themarysue.com/cait-corrain-goodreads-controversy-explained/ PublishDrive's 2023 Year in Review - https://publishdrive.com/publishdrive-2023-year-in-review.html Draft2Digital's 2023 Year in Review - https://www.draft2digital.com/blog/draft2digitals-2023-year-in-review/ Draft2Digital 2024 Publishing Predictions (panel) - https://www.youtube.com/live/VEuPpdkWNII?si=x3gBct-oCQk3zAOr The Hot Sheet's December 2023 Bestseller Lists - https://hotsheetpub.com/2024/01/december-2023-bestseller-lists StoryOrigin - https://DaleLinks.com/StoryOrigin (affiliate link) Book Genie: See you in Westwood...Virtually! - https://school.book-genie.com/p/see-you-in-westwoodvirtually Writing Productivity in 2024: From Resolution to Habit - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-productivity-in-2024-from-resolution-to-habit-tickets-776972474587 Book Brush - https://bookbrush.com Platinum Academy: Level Up with Direct Sales with Damon Courtney & Mel Jolly - https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEtcO6ppzopGNDDASXZIZrJxjlpQuoO-KEz#/registration Increasing Your Findability Through Genre Category Selection - https://selfpublishingadvice.org/podcast-genre-category-selection/ Reader Views: “How to Write a Book in 48 Hours” by Dale L. Roberts (review) - https://readerviewsarchives.wordpress.com/2024/01/08/how-to-write-a-book-in-48-hours-roberts/ How to Write a Book in 48 Hours - https://DaleLinks.com/48HoursBook  Credit: Laterpress - https://laterpress.com Scribando - https://www.scribando.com/ The Hot Sheet - https://hotsheetpub.com/  Where noted, some outbound links financially benefit the channel through affiliate programs. I only endorse programs, products, or services I use and can stand confidently behind. These links do not affect your purchase price and greatly helps to building and growing this channel. Thanks in advance for understanding! - Dale L. Roberts

PublishDrive offers print-on-demand for books in India through Repro India. YouTube still carries more influence of book sales over TikTok. The private equity firm KKR acquired Simon & Schuster. And, so much more in this week's Self-Publishing News! Source: Miblart Premium Cover Design Package Giveaway - https://DaleLinks.com/Giveaway  Scribando - https://www.scribando.com/  Report finds YouTube more popular than TikTok for young book buyers - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/aug/07/report-finds-youtube-more-popular-than-tiktok-for-young-book-buyers Dibbly Create - https://DaleLinks.com/DibblyCreate (affiliate link) New Store Available: Repro India – Expand Your Print-on-Demand Distribution to New Markets - https://publishdrive.com/new-store-available-repro-india.html Simon & Schuster purchased by private equity firm KKR for $1.62 billion - https://apnews.com/article/simon-schuster-kkr-book-publishing-penguin-random-house-797c3f383bfc1e60ea9a9bd48c6abfab Streetlib's Kobo Promo - http://r.send.streetlib.com/mk/mr/sh/7nVTPdZCTJDXP4ZFwEKPDuIkXZmlANG/myd422ir0-r4  Everything You Should Know to Start & Build Your Author Newsletter - https://www.youtube.com/live/r162XyttkIc?feature=share Inactive Google Account Policy - https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/12418290?visit_id=638276465726368772-2220244580&p=inactive_account_policy_email&rd=1 Top Questions Fiction Authors Have About Native Americans - https://www.writtenwordmedia.com/speaker-series/  Where noted, some outbound links financially benefit the channel through affiliate programs. I only endorse programs, products, or services I use and can stand confidently behind. These links do not affect your purchase price and greatly helps to building and growing this channel. Thanks in advance for understanding!

Amazon awarded over 93 grants for over $1 million to literary organizations. MailerLite is closing access to their grandfathered free accounts. Book Brush is looking to expand into AI voice narration. And, Ingram warns bookstores and libraries to order early based on the potential of a UPS strike. All that and more in the self-publishing news! - Miblart Giveaway - https://DaleLinks.com/Giveaway GetCovers Giveaway - https://DaleLinks.com/GetCoversGiveaway Join Channel Memberships - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl9CjdZQtzufqgYx0CidSbA/join Join my community at: Discord - http://dalelinks.com/discord  Sources: Launching a Bestselling Book on Amazon KDP | 200th Podcast Episode - https://www.youtube.com/live/KWArp8ZcKsk?feature=share Publishers, Ingram Prepare for Possible UPS Strike - https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/bookselling/article/92798-publishers-ingram-prepare-for-possible-ups-strike.html Amazon awards 93 grants to literary organizations - https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/books-and-authors/amazon-awards-93-literary-organizations-with-grants Revolutionary Audiobook AI Technology - Register Your Interest Today - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeniTCJhziXxE8z0R4FponpBgXnc3XOVEHhfyckwRBRA-HZAg/viewform BookMARCon - https://bookbrush.com/bookmarcon/ - Use code DALE50 for $50 off. Early bird pricing ends after July 31. How to migrate from MailerLite Classic to the new MailerLite - https://www.mailerlite.com/help/migration Stitcher shuts down as podcast industry loses luster - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/podcasting-app-stitcher-shuts-down-sirius-xm/  IngramSpark Special Print Discounts (UK & AU) - https://IngramSpark.com- Use coupon code ORDER2DAY. Expires August 31, 2023. Estelle Van de Velde - https://www.youtube.com/c/EstelleVandeVelde SEO for Authors - https://geni.us/GaO6JSF (affiliate link) Streetlib offers Labor Day Weekend Promo - https://Streetlib.com  Where noted, some outbound links financially benefit the channel through affiliate programs. I only endorse programs, products, or services I use and can stand confidently behind. These links do not affect your purchase price and greatly helps to building and growing this channel. Thanks in advance for understanding! - Dale L. Roberts

Though Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing gets a massive spotlight as being the go-to resource in self-publishing, many authors miss otherwise great Amazon KDP Alternatives like Streetlib. Get insights into this self publishing company that offers more options and distribution for indie authors, including print on demand books. Discover more insights in this exclusive interview with Julie Trelstad, the Head of US Publishing at Streetlib. Streetlib - https://streetlib.com/  Join Channel Memberships - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl9CjdZQtzufqgYx0CidSbA/join  Join my community at: Discord - http://dalelinks.com/discord  Where noted, some outbound links financially benefit the channel through affiliate programs. I only endorse programs, products, or services I use and can stand confidently behind. These links do not affect your purchase price and greatly helps to building and growing this channel. Thanks in advance for understanding! - Dale L. Roberts

Two Amazon KDP Alternatives - Draft2Digita and Streetlib - announced big news today including a company acquisition and expanded reach for audiobooks. Book Brush is hosting a live tutorial for first-time users of their platform. Despite their rocky history with misusing copyrights, Internet Archive is taking a stand against ebook piracy. All that and more in the self-publishing news this week! Miblart Giveaway - https://DaleLinks.com/Giveaway GetCovers Giveaway - https://DaleLinks.com/GetCoversGiveaway Join Channel Memberships - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl9CjdZQtzufqgYx0CidSbA/join Join my community at: Discord - http://dalelinks.com/discord  Sources: Book Brush 101: July 2023 - https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0pf-mtrj8rE9alpIz2gdzEl362RAPhVuWO#/registration BookMARCon - https://bookbrush.com/bookmarcon/ - Use DALE50 to get $50 off your ticket. The early bird special ends on July 31. Audible Wins Contract Breach Claim in Lawsuit Brought by Authors - https://news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/audible-wins-contract-breach-claim-in-lawsuit-brought-by-authors Internet Archive takes action against ebook piracy - https://goodereader.com/blog/e-book-news/internet-archive-takes-action-against-ebook-piracy Adding Metal Corners Can Transform Your Books, Planners, and Journals - https://mailchi.mp/vervante/foilstamping-1127419 How to get funding for your book + The 6 best crowdfunding sites for writers - https://pufferprint.com/index.php/2023/07/19/how-to-fund-your-book-from-crowdfunding-websites/ How to Use D2D's Coupon Manager Tool - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/webinar-how-to-use-d2ds-coupon-manager-tool-tickets-680363514587 Draft2Digital Acquires SelfPubBookCovers.com - https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/92842-draft2digital-acquires-selfpubbookcovers-com.html Launching a Bestselling Book on Amazon KDP | 200th Podcast Episode - https://www.youtube.com/live/KWArp8ZcKsk?feature=share Key Elements of an Effective Book Cover - https://www.writtenwordmedia.com/speaker-series/ Catherine Kopf - https://geni.us/RKMuY (affiliate link) Indie Book Fair in Orlando - https://www.indiebookfair.net/  Where noted, some outbound links financially benefit the channel through affiliate programs. I only endorse programs, products, or services I use and can stand confidently behind. These links do not affect your purchase price and greatly helps to building and growing this channel. Thanks in advance for understanding! - Dale L. Roberts

NVL e Unione italiana ciechi e ipovedenti, sezione territoriale di Roma, presentano un'evento sull'editoria accessibile, per informare sulle varie modalità per consultare e scaricare testi in formato accessibile, grazie agli interventi di LIA, (Libri italiani accessibili),enti che si occupano di accessibilita e distribuzione (StreetLib), insieme agli editori. buon ascolto!

World-famous author James Patterson goes off on the New York Times Bestseller List. Romance author EL James joins a panel of romance authors to chat with other authors. Streetlib offers conceirge services for newbie authors. And, AppSumo is bringing back the popular DepositPhotos deal for a limited time. All that and more in the self-publishing news! Sources:  Live author chat with E L James as we re-read The Mister - https://bingebooks.com/pages/live-author-chat-with-el-james23 The Hot Sheet - https://hotsheetpub.com James Patterson on Twitter - https://twitter.com/JP_Books/status/1641161267476873223  Audiobooks Without Audible: The Hard Lessons I've Learned Routing Around Amazon - https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/audio-books/article/91897-audiobooks-without-audible-the-hard-lessons-i-ve-learned-routing-around-amazon.html  Findaway Voices - https://findawayvoices.com Streetlib Concierge Book Services - https://concierge.streetlib.com/ KWL Live Q&A – Kobo Plus US & UK Expansion: an AMA with the KWL Team - https://www.youtube.com/live/LKizumuyPoA?feature=share DepositPhotos AppSumo Deal - https://selfpublishingwithdale.com/dp (affiliate link) Rights vs. Copyright: Untangling the Confusion - https://writerbeware.blog/2023/04/14/rights-vs-copyright-untangling-the-confusion/ KDP Select Global Fund for March 2023 - https://kdp.amazon.com  eBookFairs - https://dalelinks.com/ebookfairs (affiliate link) The Self-Publishing Hub - https://theselfpublishinghub.com/ Where noted, some outbound links financially benefit the channel through affiliate programs. I only endorse programs, products, or services I use and can stand confidently behind. These links do not affect your purchase price and greatly helps to building and growing this channel. Thanks in advance for understanding! - Dale L. Roberts

Over the past couple months, we've discussed all the highs, lows, and in-betweens on Amazon KDP. What if you're looking for an alternative to Kindle Direct Publishing? Then, you need to know the 10 best options for self-publishing online. IngramSpark, Lulu Press, Barnes & Noble Press, PublishDrive, Draft2Digital, Blurb, Apple Books for Authors, Kobo Writing Life, Google Play Books, and Streetlib are all viable alternatives to KDP. But how do they compare to Amazon's platform? Find out in this podcast!   Level-Up Your Self-Publishing Business TODAY: Miblart Cover Design Services - https://DaleLinks.com/Miblart The Amazon Self Publisher – https://DaleLinks.com/SelfPubBook Subscribe to Self-Publishing with Dale on YouTube at https://DaleLinks.com/YT and https://DaleLinks.com/YouTubePodcast. Join other like-minded and motivated self-publishers in the Self-Publishing Books Group. Learn, grow, and network with authors, freelancers, and industry experts at https://DaleLinks.com/SPB. Remember to answer the 3 questions to gain entry. Get access to my go-to resource, Publisher Rocket. Confidently research profitable keywords & categories. Easily select effective keywords for Amazon Advertising campaigns. For more details, visit https://dalelinks.com/PR.   FULL DISCLOSURE: Most outbound links financially compensate the podcast through affiliate programs or sponsorship deals. We only recommend products and services we've used and confidently stand behind. Using the links do not adversely affect your purchase price and greatly helps support the channel. Thank you for your understanding.  

In this week's news segment we discuss the growth of digital publishing and the decline of print book sales. Also, find out how Streetlib expanded its reach, Kobo supports Arabic now, and how Findaway Voices and Draft2Digital will be celebrating National Audiobook Month. And, hey, even more details! Listen in! Write Publish Profit 5.0 - https://DaleLinks.com/Profit Book Brush on IG - https://www.instagram.com/bookbrushforauthors/ Book Award Pro - https://DaleLinks.com/BookAwardPro Rakuten Kobo's Support for Arabic as a Primary Language Shows Commitment to “Wide” Agenda - https://selfpublishingadvice.org/self-publishing-news-rakuten-kobos-support-for-arabic-as-a-primary-language-shows-commitment-to-wide-agenda/ Scribando - https://www.scribando.com/ Digital Publishing Market to Grow - https://finance.yahoo.com/news/digital-publishing-market-grow-usd-130000289.html US print sales fall another 6% as the Q1 declines continue into Q2 - https://thenewpublishingstandard.com/2022/05/06/us-print-sales-fall-another-6-as-the-q1-declines-continue-into-q2/ How to Market Your First Book (For New Authors!) - https://publishdrive.com/how-to-market-your-first-book.html StreetLib expands its global distribution network by adding Legimi - https://blog.streetlib.com/streetlib-expands-its-global-distribution-network-by-adding-legimi/ Are Amazon A+ Pages Worth Your Brand's Time? - https://marketplacestrategy.com/blog/are-amazon-a-pages-worth-your-brands-time/ A Series of Live Author Events - https://findawayvoices.com/audiobookmonth2022 How Scarlett gets more value from her email list than Amazon ads - https://storyoriginapp.com/blog/scarlett-braden-case-study IngramSpark Academy - Ebooks 101 - https://event.on24.com/wcc/r/3799641/BFD40013A51DF2EC096EEF2BE202A3E1 eBook Fairs - https://DaleLinks.com/eBookFairs 

Are you self publishing a book soon? Have you heard of Streetlib or Tablo for aggregate publishing? Then, tune into this comparison and review.   Level-Up Your Self-Publishing Business TODAY: Fantasy Author Giveaway - https://DaleLinks.com/FantasyGiveaway  Subscribe to Self-Publishing with Dale on YouTube at https://DaleLinks.com/YT and https://DaleLinks.com/YouTubePodcast. Join other like-minded and motivated self-publishers in the Self-Publishing Books Group. Learn, grow, and network with authors, freelancers, and industry experts at https://DaleLinks.com/SPB. Remember to answer the 3 questions to gain entry. Get access to my go-to resource, Publisher Rocket. Confidently research profitable keywords & categories. Easily select effective keywords for Amazon Advertising campaigns. For more details, visit https://dalelinks.com/PR.   FULL DISCLOSURE: Most outbound links financially compensate the podcast through affiliate programs or sponsorship deals. We only recommend products and services we've used and confidently stand behind. Using the links do not adversely affect your purchase price and greatly helps support the channel. Thank you for your understanding.

**Who You will Hear**Guest: Carlo Carrenho (Head of International Business Development at StreetLib)Co-host: Luna Tang (Cloud Services Delivery Manager at Klopotek)Co-host: Dwayne Parris (Senior Consultant at Klopotek)This month, Luna and Dwayne talk with Carlo Carrenho about audiobook markets and subscription models in Sweden and other Nordic countries. As the sales of audiobooks surpass that of print books for the first time in the Swedish market, Carlo discusses the contributing factors for the popularity of audiobooks in that country, as well as how Sweden has been embracing the subscription model – from audiobooks to car-washing and even coffee subscribing. He also reflects how the Swedish audiobook platforms took roots nationally in Scandinavia and eventually flourished internationally. In the end, Carlo shares with us how the publishing landscape has been developing in Brazil and what he hopes to accomplish with ReBoot Books. For more information about Carlo Carrenho (@carrenho) and his work, please visit the website of StreetLib, as well as the website of Reboot Books.Tell us what is going on with your publishing projects or business on Twitter (@Klopotek_AG), LinkedIn, or email us at podcast@klopotek.com.  For more information about the Klopotek software solution, please write to info@klopotek.com, or register to receive emails from us on technology innovations & events from Klopotek.

StreetLibhttps://www.streetlib.com/Selfit Summit - The Italian Summit on Self-PublishingSubscribe to the newsletter to get exclusive contents and updates:https://www.selfitsummit.org/englishYou can also listen to the Selfit Summit on the podcast RadioScrivo:https://www.selfitsummit.org/radioscrivo

StreetLibhttps://www.streetlib.com/it/ScrivoFacilehttps://scrivofacile.comRadioScrivohttps://scrivofacile.com/radioscrivoStoria Continuahttps://www.storiacontinua.com/Selfit Summithttps://selfitsummit.orgLeggi “Self-Publishing Marketing per Scrittori 2.0” di Eugene Pitchhttps://scrivofacile.com/self-publishing-marketing/Leggi “I Metadati per i tuoi Ebook: edizione estesa con Amazon ADS” di Sonia Lombardohttps://www.amazon.it/Metadati-tuoi-Ebook-edizione-estesa-ebook/dp/B08PVQ1SKG

Draft2Digital vs Smashwords vs Streetlib vs PublishDrive: Which ebook aggregator is best? Our #AskALLi Member Q&A is hosted by Michael La Ronn and ALLi Director Orna Ross, and this month they'll be answering this question and more. Other questions include: If I commission an artist to illustrate scenes from my book as a giveaway for fans, who owns the copyright: me or the illustrator? Help! My publisher returned my book rights to me and I don't know what to do next. What if I encounter a service provider ALLi hasn't heard of before? What does ALLi think of B&N paperbacks sold through their site? Find more author advice, tips and tools at our Self-publishing Author Advice Center: https://selfpublishingadvice.org, with a huge archive of nearly 2,000 blog posts, and a handy search box to find key info on the topic you need. And, if you haven’t already, we invite you to join our organization and become a self-publishing ally. You can do that at http://allianceindependentauthors.org. Now, go write and publish! About the Hosts Michael La Ronn is the author of over 30 books of science fiction & fantasy and authors self-help books. His books include the Galaxy Mavericks series and Modern Necromancy series. You can now find his new writing course on Teachable. Orna Ross launched the Alliance of Independent Authors at the London Book Fair in 2012. Her work for ALLi has seen her named as one of The Bookseller’s “100 top people in publishing”. She also publishes poetry, fiction and nonfiction, and is greatly excited by the democratising, empowering potential of author-publishing. For more information about Orna, visit her website: http://www.ornaross.com

Gli ospiti di questa puntata sono Fabrizio Bellavista, Digital Transformation Specialist e Partner di Emotional Marketing Lab, e Stefano Lazzari, Digital Content Manager e Co-fondatore di Digital Guys. Dalla loro amicizia e dalle loro chiacchierate è nato il libro "Ultrasoma. Corpi, ultracorpi, robot e organizzazioni del III millennio", edito da Streetlib. “Soma” in greco antico rimanda all'idea del corpo: il titolo "Ultrasoma" è stato scelto perché per gli autori il corpo "aumentato" significa un corpo con possibilità di espansione quasi infinite delle abilità cerebrali e della creatività umana. Le stesse caratteristiche che hanno creato l' Intelligenza Artificiale.

Are you overwhelmed by all the options for self-publishing a book online? Then, discover the pros and cons of self-publishing through Streetlib Self Publishing. This is the thirteenth part of a multi-part series about platforms for publishing books. Level-Up Your Self-Publishing Business TODAY: Archangel Ink – https://DaleLinks.com/ArchangelInk Subscribe to Self-Publishing with Dale on YouTube at https://DaleLinks.com/YT and https://DaleLinks.com/YouTubePodcast. Join other like-minded and motivated self-publishers in the Self-Publishing Books Group. Learn, grow and network with authors, freelancers and industry experts at https://DaleLinks.com/SPB. Remember to answer the 3 questions to gain entry. Get access to my go-to resource, Publisher Rocket. Confidently research profitable keywords & categories. And, easily select effective keywords for Amazon Advertising campaigns. For more details, visit https://dalelinks.com/PR.   FULL DISCLOSURE: Most outbound links financially compensate  the podcast through affiliate programs or sponsorship deals. We only recommend products and services we've used and confidently stand behind. Using the links does not adversely affect your purchase price and greatly helps support the channel. Thank you for your understanding.

Se hai deciso di auto-pubblicarti, molto probabilmente ti stai guardando intorno per capire come fare nel concreto per pubblicare il tuo libro.Là fuori ci sono tanti servizi a disposizione, Amazon, StreetLib, Lulu, Booksprint, YoucanPrint ecc., ma tu non sai da che parte cominciare e come districarti in questa giungla.Bene, sappi che è normale. In fondo il primo Self Publishing non si scorda mai anche per questo! ;-)Fare Self Publishing significa proprio saltare ogni passaggio di intermediazione tra te e i tuoi lettori e diventare editore di te stesso.Per questo io ti consiglio di pubblicare in modo diretto, senza intermediazioni, in ogni libreria dove ciò è possibile.Vediamo insieme il quali librerie puoi pubblicare e quali passaggi seguire per non sbagliare!#SelfPublishing⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇⬇SCOPRI GLI ALTRI PODCAST DI LIBROZAhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/librozaACQUISTA I MIEI LIBRIAMAZON

RADIO IT - IL PROTAGONISTA Francesco Baschieri è presidente di Voxnest e cofondatore di Spreaker. Ed è anche un grande appassionato di baseball, sport che ha giocato quando era più giovane. Con lui Radio IT ha parlato di molte cose: - dell'accordo tra Spreaker e StreetLib su podcast e audiolibri - di come il mondo del podcast sia cambiato dall'apparire dei primi a oggi - di come fare podcast a regola d'arte, e di come distribuirli - di come le aziende possono utilizzare i podcast per veicolare i propri contenui - di baseball, e di un suo segreto utile nella vita di tutti i giorni E' stata una chiacchierata decisamente interessante, con tanti spunti di riflessione: ascoltala nel podcast! Altri contenuti su www.radioit.it

RADIO IT - IL PROTAGONISTAFrancesco Baschieri è presidente di Voxnest e cofondatore di Spreaker. Ed è anche un grande appassionato di baseball, sport che ha giocato quando era più giovane. Con lui Radio IT ha parlato di molte cose:- dell'accordo tra Spreaker e StreetLib su podcast e audiolibri- di come il mondo del podcast sia cambiato dall'apparire dei primi a oggi- di come fare podcast a regola d'arte, e di come distribuirli- di come le aziende possono utilizzare i podcast per veicolare i propri contenui- di baseball, e di un suo segreto utile nella vita di tutti i giorniE' stata una chiacchierata decisamente interessante, con tanti spunti di riflessione: ascoltala nel podcast! Altri contenuti su www.radioit.it

  En NotiPod Hoy - Jeymi Febles y su esposo Robert Sasuke fueron galardonados por sus podcasts en la tercera edición de los Latin Podcast Awards. Jeymi ganó el Mejor Pódcast de República Dominicana con su programa ‘Vivir en Armonía’ y Robert consiguió los reconocimientos como ‘Mejor Pódcast de Negocios’ con su programa ‘Negocios DIY’ y ‘Mejor Pódcast de Autoayuda’ con ‘Te invito un café’. - PIA Podcast, que pertenece a la Familia Radiopolis, auspicia ‘Podcast Day Colombia’ que se llevará a cabo el próximo viernes 18 de octubre con varios expertos de la región como: Catalina May y Martín Cruz de Chile de las Raras Podcast, Melvin Rivera de Vía Podcast, Carlos Puig de México, Álvaro Barriga y El Locutorio de Colombia, así como Benjamín Masse del Reino Unido. - En este episodio del pódcast Escuela de Periodismo, Enrique Bullido, entrevistó a Pedro Sánchez, quién habló de cómo, a pesar de no ser periodista, tiene una gran pasión por esta profesión. - Durante las III Jornadas de Innovación Radiofónica en Madrid, Andoni Orrantia, subdirector de programación de la Cadena Cope, aseguró que la radio lineal convivirá con lo que venga. - iVoox renueva su aplicación para Android. - Ejecutivos de Wondery, la compañía de producción de pódcast detrás de programas como «Dirty John» y «Dr. Muerte», contaron sobre lo que creen son los ingredientes necesarios para hacer un programa exitoso, siendo uno de ellos la narración emocional y las asociaciones. - Spotify podría ser la plataforma pionera del ‘microcast’ - iHeartMedia y Will Ferrell lanzan Big Money Players Network, una red de pódcast enfocada en programas de comedia. - Spreaker la plataforma de podcasting de Voxnest y StreetLib un distribuidor de libros digitales permitirán que sus podcasters y editores de libros puedan trabajar en otro medio (como los podcasts o los audiolibros) en el que puedan difundir sus historias mucho más. - Este año el evento IAB Upfront estará enfocado en las plataformas y en cómo estas deberán hacer crecer el entorno de la publicidad en el podcasting. Pódcast recomendado: ‘Aprender Fotografía”. Es un pódcast en el que se habla de técnicas y conceptos fotográficos, especialmente de la fotografía en estudio profesional. Es conducido por Fran Valverde de Studio Lightroom y Pere Larrégula de LF Photo Agency. Se publican dos episodios a la semana, los días miércoles y viernes.

Conflict lies at the heart of every great story but writers often get important details wrong when it comes to criminal investigation. You'll get some great tips from this conversation with Detective Adam Richardson. In the intro, I talk about how Streetlib has expanded into audiobooks and how it is poised to complete its goal […] The post Writing Conflict In Crime Fiction With Detective Adam Richardson first appeared on The Creative Penn.

Welcome to AskALLi, the Self-Publishing Advice Podcast from the Alliance of Independent Authors. This week it’s our monthly Member Q&A where ALLi Members’ have their most pressing self-publishing questions analyzed and answered. Join your regular hosts for the Member Q&A: Michael La Ronn and Orna Ross. Questions this month include: Is it worth displaying my book at BookExpo? Which is better for book promotion: Bookbub or Goodreads? Which of the assisted self-publishing companies are best for marketing? And More! Also, News Editor Dan Holloway and Howard Lovy bring you the latest self-publishing news. They talk about the expansion of StreetLib, an Unbound book shortlisted for a Folio prize, and an update on copyright protections. Find more author advice, tips and tools at our Self-publishing Author Advice Center: https://selfpublishingadvice.org, with a huge archive of nearly 2,000 blog posts, and a handy search box to find key info on the topic you need. And, if you haven’t already, we invite you to join our organization and become a self-publishing ally. You can do that at http://allianceindependentauthors.org. Now, go write and publish! About the Hosts Michael La Ronn is the author of over 30 books of science fiction & fantasy and authors self-help books. His books include the Galaxy Mavericks series and Modern Necromancy series. You can now find his new writing course on Teachable. Orna Ross launched the Alliance of Independent Authors at the London Book Fair in 2012. Her work for ALLi has seen her named as one of The Bookseller’s “100 top people in publishing”. She also publishes poetry, fiction and nonfiction, and is greatly excited by the democratising, empowering potential of author-publishing. For more information about Orna, visit her website: http://www.ornaross.com Dan Holloway is a novelist, poet and spoken word artist. He is the MC of the performance arts show The New Libertines Earlier this year he competed at the National Poetry Slam final at the Royal Albert Hall. His latest collection, The Transparency of Sutures, is available on Kindle.

In a fast-moving world, indie authors often have more in common with the tech community than we do with traditional publishing. In today's interview, Jarie Bolander explains some of the realities of being an author-entrepreneur and we discuss the ethical side of creative entrepreneurship. In publishing news, Streetlib now reaches half the world with their […] The post The Author Entrepreneur Ethos With Jarie Bolander first appeared on The Creative Penn.

How do you write villains who are more than just moustache-twirling cut-outs? How do you write heroes with real flaws? In today's interview, Sacha Black gives tips on these writing issues and more. In the intro, Streetlib launches African stores and an international store for indigenous languages [The New Publishing Standard], Draft2Digital now publishes to […] The post Writing Heroes And Villains With Sacha Black first appeared on The Creative Penn.

Christine "Chrissy" Munroe is Director of Kobo Writing Life, a digital self-publishing platform from Rakuten Kobo who partnered with Walmart to provide Walmart eBooks and a co-branded app. Before joining Rakuten Kobo, Munroe was a foreign book scout and literary agent in New York.  So why should an author go direct with Kobo (and the other retailers) rather than use an aggregator to distribute ebooks? The answers are personal, says Munroe, and you'll find out that with Kobo you don't just get direct to Kobo; you get personal feedback from their in-house marketing staff, you get your ebook in independent bookstores via the American Booksellers Association, an opportunity to distribute to libraries with Overdrive (also owned by Rakuten) with a more favorable royalty split then going through an aggregator, and many more perks we'll explore in the podcast. After hearing this conversation, you may end up deciding to upload your book directly to the big five (Amazon, Kobo, Apple, B&N, and Google Play) rather than reaching these sales channels with an aggregator.  If you own your book ISBNs you can easily make the switch and experiment. There are definitely pros and cons, which you already realize if you've listened to the podcast episodes with the aggregators (Smashwords, StreetLib, Draft2Digital, PublishDrive, Scribl). We also discuss marketing opportunities with libraries, how merchandizing between Kobo, libraries, and aggregators work, the Walmart eBookstore experience for customers, and the Kobo Plus subscription program for the Netherlands and Belgium with bol.com and how English-language authors can reach this market (and why you'd want to). Also find out about their partnerships with Reedsy, Damonza, NetGalley, and other services that help authors with editing, design, formatting, and marketing.

In this episode, I talk with AC de Fombelle about the StreetLib ebook and print book creation and distribution platform. StreetLib can help you create plain ebooks in EPUB format and fixed-layout EPUBs from a PDF doc. You can sell your book in the StreetLib store, on your own StreetLib author page (with your logo), and create a curated bookstore from the other books on StreetLib. They provide an HTML widget so you can sell direct to customers from your StreetLib store (where you get higher royalties) from your own website. There's also a marketplace where you can find editors, designers, and translators. You'll find out about their partnership with the Babelcube translation service and how to reach markets that don't have Amazon.com.

Welcome to AskALLi, the self-publishing advice broadcast from the Alliance of Independent Authors. This week it's our monthly IndieVoices' self-publishing salon with interviews conducted by ALLi Managing Editor Howard Lovy and updates from News Editor Dan Holloway. Howard Lovy has been a journalist for more than 30 years, and has spent the last five years amplifying the voices of independent publishers and authors. He works with authors as a "book doctor" to prepare their work to be published. Howard is also a freelance business and technology writer. Find Howard on LinkedIn and Twitter. Dan Holloway is a novelist, poet and spoken word artist. He is the MC of the performance arts show The New Libertines Earlier this year he competed at the National Poetry Slam final at the Royal Albert Hall. His latest collection, The Transparency of Sutures, is available on Kindle This Month's IndieVoices Guest Cari Noga, author of Sparrow Migrations and The Orphan Daughter, discusses her path from NanoWriMo to CreateSpace to an Amazon imprint, and what she learned along the way. Her book touches upon themes of grief and second chances, and the current issue of immigration. Guest Claire Rudy Foster discusses her upcoming book, Shine Shine Shine, being crowdfunded by Unbound. Claire talks about her journey as an author and on writing about addiction and the LGBTQ community. Claire also reads a passage from her new collection. Dan Holloway treats us to a poem about the late physicist Stephen Hawking. He also updates us on the continuing saga of Audible and romance, blockchain and books, and an update on the StreetLib digital publishing tools.

Il selfpublishing, cioè pubblicare il proprio libro senza un editore, scegliendo una piattaforma come Amazon o StreetLib è una scelta che paga o è sempre meglio l'editoria tradizionale?Se preferisci leggere, qui trovi il post: https://www.bookblister.com/2017/11/16/selfpublishing-si-o-no/

Il selfpublishing, cioè pubblicare il proprio libro senza un editore, scegliendo una piattaforma come Amazon o StreetLib è una scelta che paga o è sempre meglio l’editoria tradizionale? Se preferisci leggere, qui trovi il post: https://www.bookblister.com/2017/11/16/selfpublishing-si-o-no/

Il selfpublishing, cioè pubblicare il proprio libro senza un editore, scegliendo una piattaforma come Amazon o StreetLib è una scelta che paga o è sempre meglio l’editoria tradizionale?Se preferisci leggere, qui trovi il post: https://www.bookblister.com/2017/11/16/selfpublishing-si-o-no/

Per l’ultimo episodio del Podcast Self Publishing Italia ho intervistato Antonio Tombolini, fondatore e CEO di StreetLib, la più importante piattaforma in Italia per l’autopubblicazione che offre agli autori indipendenti tutti gli strumenti necessari per una capillare distribuzione dei propri testi, sia in formato elettronico che in formato cartaceo.Scopri tutto quello che Antonio Tombolini ci ha raccontato sullo sviluppo dell'editoria digitale in Italia dal 2006 ad oggi e le potenzialità degli strumenti oggi a disposizione degli autori indie per pubblicare e promuovere i propri testi.GUARDA IL VIDEO DELL'INTERVISTA INTEGRALE:https://youtu.be/SW-UIHVDhngLEGGI L'ARTICOLO:http://libroza.com/editoria-digitale-antonio-tombolini/===============SEGUI IL PODCAST su Spreaker: https://www.spreaker.com/show/selfpublishingitaliasu iTunes: http://apple.co/2hHHw7uvia Feed: http://libroza.com/feed/self-publishing-italia/===============SEGUIMIsu Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Libroza/su YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/Librozasu Instagram: http://instagram.com/libroza/===============

Streetlib is an eBook aggregator, publishing services and POD company that's been relatively unknown (being an Italian company) in the US and UK but offers interesting services and is expanding into the US.  I interview Giacomo D'Angelo CEO of Streetlib USA to find out more. Show Notes are available at http://beginselfpublishing.com/streetlib-giacomo-dangelo

An eBook aggregator service takes your eBook and submits it to multiple eBook stores, such as Apple, Nook and Kobo. The reason why these services are useful is it means you don't have to manage several different system dashboards and in some cases it allows you to get into stores where there isn't even a direct route for self-publishers into that store (for example Google Play). I must admit that I thought Smashwords and Draft2Digital were the only major eBook aggregator companies, but after joining the International Indie Authors Facebook group, I heard about a whole host of new and international companies, primarily PublishDrive, Streetlib and Pronoun. I've decided to try and get representatives from these companies on to the show to learn a bit more about them. This week I talk to Kinga Jentetics from PublishDrive. You can find show notes at http://beginselfpublishing.com/publishdrive-kinga-jentetics

Antonio Tombolini è il fondatore di Simplicissimus Book Farm, oggi StreetLib e di Antonio Tombolini Editore. Per lui il libro, digitale o cartaceo, è prima di tutto un esperienza di scrittura o di lettura che richiede tempo, isolamento, attenzione e che, a causa di tutti gli strumenti che oggi la tecnologia ci offre, è seriamente in pericolo.VUOI SCOPRIRE IL SEGRETO DEGLI SCRITTORI?Ascolta la puntata segreta che non ho mai pubblicato✍ https://periscritto.it/ilsegretodegliscrittori/VUOI CONTATTARMI?Scrivi a periscritto@youmediaweb.como su http://telegram.me/periscritto

Antonio Tombolini è il fondatore di Simplicissimus Book Farm, oggi StreetLib e di Antonio Tombolini Editore. Per lui il libro, digitale o cartaceo, è prima di tutto un esperienza di scrittura o di lettura che richiede tempo, isolamento, attenzione e che, a causa di tutti gli strumenti che oggi la tecnologia ci offre, è seriamente in pericolo.VUOI SCOPRIRE IL SEGRETO DEGLI SCRITTORI?Ascolta la puntata segreta che non ho mai pubblicato✍ https://periscritto.it/ilsegretodegliscrittori/VUOI CONTATTARMI?Scrivi a periscritto@youmediaweb.como su http://telegram.me/periscritto

Se hai deciso di auto-pubblicarti, molto probabilmente ti stai guardando intorno per capire come fare nel concreto per pubblicare il tuo libro. Là fuori ci sono tanti servizi a disposizione, Amazon, StreetLib, Lulu, Booksprint, YoucanPrint ecc., ma tu non sai da che parte cominciare e come districarti in questa giungla.Bene, sappi che è normale. In fondo il primo Self Publishing non si scorda mai anche per questo! ;-)Leggi l'articolo completo:http://libroza.com/come-pubblicare-un-libro-in-self-publishing/