Have you tried the KDP royalties estimator yet?

Posted on 05/31/2019 at 11:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The Digital Reader shared news right before the holiday weekend that Kindle Direct Publishing’s reports dashboard has added a royalties...

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Have you tried KDP's ebook quality dashboard yet?

Posted on 03/13/2019 at 09:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Nate Hoffelder may have yawned over one Amazon update, but he’s intrigued by another more recent one. He received an...

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Tagged As: Kindle Direct Publishing, The Digital Reader

Amazon is testing sales-tracking tool called KDP Reports

Posted on 11/15/2018 at 11:02 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Amazon is testing a new sales-data tracking tool, according to The Digital Reader (citing reports on KBoards and Facebook). Per...

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Amazon's statement on disappearing ebooks

Posted on 11/13/2018 at 01:16 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Amazon has posted an acknowledgment of the disappearing Kindle Direct Publishing books issue: We're experiencing an issue that has made...

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Tagged As: Amazon, Kindle Direct Publishing, Technology

Troubleshooting for your migration from CreateSpace to KDP

Posted on 11/09/2018 at 02:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

If you haven’t moved yet from CreateSpace to Kindle Direct Publishing, you should consider checking out Melinda Clayton’s post to...

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Tagged As: Kindle Direct Publishing

A reminder about those free ISBNs

Posted on 10/12/2018 at 04:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

If your eyes begin crossing the second you stumble upon acronyms like ISBN and KDP, then Author Imprints is here...

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Tagged As: Kindle Direct Publishing, Licenses, copyrights, and other legalese, The business of writing

Author makes key discovery on search terms

Posted on 09/07/2018 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Author David Kudler thought he had the best practices for Kindle Direct Publishing keywords down pat. Then another writer mentioned...

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Tagged As: Amazon, Keywords, Kindle Direct Publishing, The Book Designer

How long is a page, anyway?

Posted on 06/20/2018 at 11:30 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

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Amazon released a statement on Monday explaining how it measures pages read, which is important for authors in Kindle Direct...

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David Gaughran: They're still stuffing books

Posted on 06/12/2018 at 06:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

David Gaughran is frustrated to report that book-stuffing is alive and well despite Kindle Direct Publishing’s rule changes. He posted...

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David Gaughran: Will Amazon enforce new book-stuffing rules?

Posted on 06/05/2018 at 04:15 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Author and digital publishing expert David Gaughran

We posted last week about Kindle Direct Publishing’s new attempt to prevent authors from gaming the page royalties payment system....

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