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How Amazon’s self-publishing service has empowered authors and diversified publishing over the last 15 years

November 2022 / , , ,

Written by Amazon Staff / www.aboutamazon.com Kindle Direct Publishing has democratized the publishing industry and given readers access to a greater variety of stories from self-published authors. Learn more about the service and its impact.Since 2007, Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) has helped launch millions of successful careers in self-publishing. Through KDP, independent authors can publish …

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AI proofreading app Proofcheck readies for publisher rollout after funding

October 2022 / , ,

By Lauren Brown | The Bookseller Proofcheck, a Vienna-based AI proofreading app which was a FutureBook Startup Finalist in 2020, has received venture capital funding. The company is the first to receive funding from the Plug and Play Startup Camp EMEA program, which provides €50,000 (£44,000) in investment to every selected start-up in exchange for a …

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How to get your own book published: a step by step guide

August 2022 / , , ,

from The Guardian by Sandra Haurant Allow a budget of £4,000 to do-it-yourself, from the editing and design through to marketing “A Top-of-her-game literary agent tells us she receives about 3,000 submissions a year,” says Joe Sedgwick, the head of writing services at The Literary Consultancy. “Of those, she requests to see the full manuscripts …

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How to publish ebooks on Amazon Kindle and Apple’s Books using a Mac

July 2022 / , , ,

by William Gallagher | appleinsider.com You have all the tools to create books on a Mac, and get them on sale on both Amazon Kindle and Apple Books. Here’s what you need to do. Kindles and iPads are great for reading anything on, even if that anything is just a report you’ve written for work. If …

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