by Kevin Tumlinson | Jun 5, 2023 | Author How-To & Mindset, D2D Print
When I was in my mid-twenties I went to hang out with a classmate from college. At the time he worked for Unilever—a multinational consumer goods company that owns a lot of the brands you’re probably familiar with. Dove, Hellmann’s, and Ben & Jerry’s are all...
by Kevin Tumlinson | May 15, 2023 | Author How-To & Mindset
“So now it’s mean spirited to tell a writer they should get an editor?” The question is a good one, because really, we’ve been telling authors for a long while that they need to have an editor, if they can afford one. Or at least get someone you can trust to give your...
by Kevin Tumlinson | May 2, 2023 | D2D Print, Features & Walk-Thrus
True, print on demand isn’t new. You have a lot of options for getting your books onto the printed page. What we discovered, as we researched how POD works and what authors go through, is that the whole process can be both expensive and complicated for authors. Setup...
by Kevin Tumlinson | Apr 25, 2023 | Announcements
The Smashwords Store is your store—a marketplace for Ebooks that allows you to not only get the highest royalty from any retailer, but to also control the entire process of promoting your Ebooks to readers. And that experience is only getting better with time, as we...
by Kevin Tumlinson | Apr 6, 2023 | Announcements
The success of Kobo’s subscriber-based Kobo Plus just keeps opening new doors for authors and their books. What started in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Canada expanded quickly to include Australia, New Zealand, Italy, France, and Portugal. Now, Kobo Plus is...