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Book Blockage at Felixstowe

Book Blockage at Felixstowe

Publishing company Idesine can’t get hold of its books because they are stuck in congestion at the Port of Felixstowe. The ship carrying 4,000 of their volumes has been trying to dock since 31st October, according to a BBC report.

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Book Sales Boom in Corona-time

Book Sales Boom in Corona-time

Bloomsbury has recorded its best half-year profits since 2008, reports the BBC. The publisher’s profits increased 60% to £4 million in the period from February to August 2020. Online and ebook sales were both significantly higher. Sales of digital resources

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Author loses chart position for buying own books

Author loses chart position for buying own books

Author Mark Dawson lost his position in the Top 10 of the Sunday Times bestseller charts after revealing that he had bought 400 copies of his book himself, the Guardian reported on Wednesday 22nd July. Dawson admitted on his podcast,

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Automatic Book Updates

Automatic Book Updates

If you’ve written a Kindle ebook, the chances are that you’ve made minor changes to it at one time or another. Then you come across the challenge of getting the revised version into your own Kindle Library. The solution ought

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KDP Paperback Royalties

KDP Paperback Royalties

Nobody likes to feel that they’re being treated like a mug. The author of a KDP paperback gets 60% Royalties, right? That means that KDP get 40%, right? Well, “60%” does appear as the rate in the Pricing & Royalty

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Back to front books at Waterstones

Back to front books at Waterstones

In a blow to authors who have created great front covers, some branches of Waterstones are turning books round and displaying them back to front, reports the Guardian. Beautiful covers – like that of Andy Beer’s book, Every Day Nature

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Set up an Amazon Ad Campaign for your Kindle ebook – 3

Set up an Amazon Ad Campaign for your Kindle ebook – 3

In Set up an Amazon Ad Campaign for your Kindle ebook 2, I promised to let you know how I got on using Manual Targeting. The figures show: 4,462 impressions advertising spend of £3.65 one sale at £2.99 The only

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Set up an Amazon Ad Campaign for your Kindle ebook – 2

This is a follow-up to my first Amazon Ad Campaign for your Kindle ebook post. I used Automatic Targeting on the first Amazon Ad Campaign and the result was a flop. Of course, it may be the cover of the

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Set up an Amazon Ad Campaign for your Kindle ebook – 1

I’m going to go through the process of setting up an Amazon Ad Campaign for a Kindle ebook. I’m pretty much a novice, so I’ll be learning as I go. I start by going to my KDP Bookshelf. Under KINDLE

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UK VAT no longer charged on ebooks

From tomorrow, 1st May 2020, VAT will no longer be charged on ebooks in the UK. Until now, the sales tax applied to ebooks sold in Britain but not to physical books. The government had been planning to remove VAT

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