Amazon gives fresh look to its author portal

Posted on 11/17/2020 at 02:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

If you haven’t accessed your Amazon author portal lately, Nate Hoffelder thinks you’re in for a pleasant surprise. There’s a...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Amazon, The Digital Reader

Audible exchange policy raises concerns of serial returnees

Posted on 11/04/2020 at 09:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Authors who list their books with Audible, take note: the company is, as The Digital Reader put it, actively encouraging...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Amazon, Audiobook, The Digital Reader

Entrepreneur: Email marketing doesn't have to feel gross

Posted on 11/02/2020 at 10:59 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The Digital Reader shared another entrepreneur’s post about email marketing that, in both of our opinions, hit the nail on...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Email newsletter, Marketing, The Digital Reader

Intermediate tech tips: Adding a bookstore to your author site

Posted on 10/16/2020 at 03:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

You always have the option, on on your author site, to just send users to another website in order to...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Social media and websites, Technology, The Digital Reader

How to back up your WordPress website daily (and why)

Posted on 10/15/2020 at 12:48 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

If your author site is a self-hosted WordPress one, then Nate Hoffelder has an important message for you. (Well, actually,...

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Tagged As: Social media and websites, Technology, The Digital Reader

The three key steps for a profitable author newsletter

Posted on 10/05/2020 at 01:53 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

An expert on direct mail told Nate Hoffelder that any successful newsletter needs to train users to take three steps....

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Email newsletter, Marketing, The Digital Reader

Kindle Create can now generate print-on-demand files

Posted on 09/30/2020 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Your Kindle Create files just became more versatile. Nate Hoffelder of The Digital Reader noted in the KDP newsletter that...

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Tagged As: Kindle Direct Publishing, The Digital Reader

Set your online author event up for success

Posted on 08/25/2020 at 11:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

There’s been plenty of advice on the content you should include in an online author event — and, heck, plenty...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Author events, coronavirus / COVID-19, The Digital Reader

What to do if Twitter targets your account

Posted on 08/10/2020 at 05:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Nate Hoffelder received some unwelcome news recently: Twitter decided that he’d violated the platform’s terms of service. We hope you...

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Tagged As: Social media and websites, Technology, The Digital Reader

Check your ebook prices in European countries

Posted on 07/31/2020 at 10:27 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Nate Hoffelder has a friendly reminder to authors outside of Europe selling their books there: the value-added tax rate has...

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Tagged As: The business of writing, The Digital Reader