Guidelines to picking your books sub-category. This article is for you if you already know the main niche you want to write in, but you need to narrow down and define your specific genre. This article tells you how to find out what people are searching for, and how to capitalize on market trends.

Banned Amazon Keywords There are many banned words for Amazon keywords, mostly in the erotica category. Don’t run afoul of Amazon, like all large companies there is very little recourse for people who are the victim of an erroneous ban, unless you have a multi-million dollar account of course. If

This is a review and comparison for PublishDrive, Draft2Digital, Ingram, and SmashWords. So, you’ve decided to hop off of Amazon’s wild ride (or at least, check out your other options) and you want to go wide. No more editing your manuscript to maximize KU pages read, no more obsessively refreshing

This is a rather short article, by design. I browse a lot of popular self publishing websites, and wanted to take some time to refute some of the data they are displaying as true, which is unintentionally misleading author’s and publishers alike. First off, these market share graphs, created by a guy named Paul

eBook Keyword Analysis: Ancient History Niches Note: This page is a WIP, I’m putting the category keywords up because it will help people in the meantime. Welcome to our inspiration center on ancient world keywords. This page has some general advice on keywords for this historical niche, as well as

eBook Keywords Analysis: African American Niches Keywords are fast becoming the most important weapon in a publishers arsenal, and as long as books are being primarily discovered by keywords typed into a website’s search bar, keywords will continue to be of the utmost importance. Keywords aren’t just essential for discoverability,

eBook Keywords Analysis: Bad Boy/Alpha Male Romance NOTE: This page is a WIP, I’ve included the category keywords as a help in the meantime. We thought about simply including these dominant alpha male keywords in the Romance section, but when the largest sub-category of Romance (which is in itself the

eBook Keywords Analysis: Business & Money Keywords are fast becoming the most important weapon in a publishers arsenal, and as long as books are being primarily discovered by keywords typed into a website’s search bar, keywords will continue to be of the utmost importance. Keywords aren’t just essential for discoverability,

eBook Keywords Analysis: Childrens Books Children’s books are usually illustrative, which makes keyword targeting tricky. These keywords can also be counter intuitive, as generally it’s the parents doing the actual searching and buying, rendering actual basic descriptions of your books plotlines relatively useless. The most important keywords by far are

eBook Keywords Analysis: Computers & Technology Keywords are fast becoming the most important weapon in a publishers arsenal, and as long as books are being primarily discovered by keywords typed into a website’s search bar, keywords will continue to be of the utmost importance. Keywords aren’t just essential for discoverability,

eBook Keywords Analysis: Cooking Books Keywords are fast becoming the most important weapon in a publishers arsenal, and as long as books are being primarily discovered by keywords typed into a website’s search bar, keywords will continue to be of the utmost importance. Keywords aren’t just essential for discoverability, they’re

eBook Keyword Analysis: Erotica Keyword Analysis Welcome to our inspiration center on erotica keywords. This page has some general advice on keywords for this niche, as well as some keyword lists. We have general user submitted keywords as well as real, raw search data directly from Amazon’s search suggestions. The

eBook Keyword Analysis: Paranormal Niches Keywords are fast becoming the most important weapon in a publishers arsenal, and as long as books are being primarily discovered by keywords typed into a website’s search bar, keywords will continue to be of the utmost importance. Keywords aren’t just essential for discoverability, they’re

eBook Keywords Analysis: Religious/Christian Keywords Welcome to our inspiration center on christian and religious keywords. This page has some general advice on keywords for this niche, as well as some keyword lists. We have general user submitted keywords as well as real, raw search data directly from Amazon’s search suggestions.

Kindle Unlimited is the biggest change to the publishing and reading landscape in a while. A book subscription service? It’s almost shocking it wasn’t done earlier. The current cost is $9.99 USD in the US, £7.99 in the UK, 9.99 CAD in Canada, 13.99 in Australia, and around 9-11 USD equivalent everywhere else. One

How to get a Google Play publishers account and publish books on Google Play? Google Play Publishing is a bit of an enigma at the moment, at least if you want to publish to them. They are currently closed to accepting new publishing accounts, but Google Play is a major

How To Select A Writing Niche Before you publishing your first book, before you write that amazing novel you have kicking around in the back of your mind, before you even select a sub-category for your book you’re going to want to select a niche to write in. You or

I have always wanted to write a guide to publishing, to share all of the practical knowledge that I’ve meticulously gathered from experience, other authors, the depths of abandoned writers forums, and from observing others. I want to save you years of mediocre sales, and constantly failing from a lack

The AlphaSmart 3000 – with Mechanical Keyboard Upgrades? The AlphaSmart 3000 is an incredibly unique piece of machinery, which has enjoyed a renewed interest amongst authors looking to simplify their life. I am no stranger to using outdated equipment to reduce distractions, as I have the attention span of a hyperactive

What do the file types AZW, AZW3, KF8, KFX, .EPUB, .MOBI, etc mean? What on earth are these filetypes? These are all eBook filetypes, most associated with Kindle files. Here are the most common eBook filetypes: ePub: .ePub is the most common “non-Amazon” eBook file format. It is the standard.

Why you should NEVER use Streetlib.com – A Review/Warning A supremely important choice (whether we realize it or not) is how and where to publish our books. Not all distributors are created equal, and the distributor you select will determine how easily you book is approved by the various outlets