Shatzkin on the capabilities of Ingram’s Lightning Print Australia
28 March 2019
Earlier this year, US digital publishing consultant Mike Shatzkin visited Ingram’s Lightning Print print-on-demand operation outside of Melbourne as part of a trip examining the Australian and New Zealand book...
Survey: self-published author incomes are on the rise
1 March 2019
Earlier this month, The Authors Guild shared the results from its 2018 Authors’ Income Survey, leading to much discussion of dwindling author salaries. IngramSpark’s Regan Kannamer explores the results and finds self-published...
Self-publishing essentials with Ellie Marney: promo, marketing and all that jazz (part two)
29 November 2018
Your book promotion footprint In the first article in this series on book marketing, we talked about why marketing your book is worthwhile, why you’re the best person to market...
Self-publishing essentials with Ellie Marney: promotion, marketing and all that jazz (part one)
30 October 2018
Writer, publisher, promoter So you’ve written a book, gone through the tricky process of prepping it for publication, and then released it out into the world. Congratulations! That is hard...
The 2018 Indie Publishing Forum: POD, metadata and self-publishing tips among topics discussed
26 September 2018
The Indie Publishing Forum—a joint initiative by the Small Press Network (SPN), IngramSpark, Books+Publishing and the Australian Society of Authors (ASA)—launched earlier this year with sessions held in three Australian cities...
Self-publishing essentials: the purpose of publishing
31 August 2018
When planning to self-publish, the first questions that most people ask usually relate to process. How do I turn a document into an ebook? What do I do about distribution?...
Self-publisher essentials with Ellie Marney: your publishing one-stop shop
27 July 2018
When first researching the process of self-publishing, it can seem as if there are hundreds of different articles and books on the subject but no single map of the journey....
Self-publishing essentials with Ellie Marney: Crowdfunding your book release
29 June 2018
Got a book written and not sure how to pay for production? In self-publishing, the initial costs of editing, creating a cover, typesetting and formatting—and sometimes printing and distribution—are all...
Self-publishing essentials with Ellie Marney: Money matters for self-publishers
25 May 2018
Dealing with money and totting up figures … It’s not exactly the first thing a writer imagines when they’re thinking about their next book. But if you’re self-publishing, you’re not...
