by Craig Martelle Ready to take your writing career to the next level? 20Books Vegas — an independently published author convention by and for indies — will be a premier learning and networking event. Do you publish wide? Are you exclusive to Amazon? Do you write one book a year? Or do you write one book every three weeks? We
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This episode continues from where episode 82 left off with KWL’s recent live interviews with attendees from RT Booklovers Convention in Atlanta, Georgia in early May 2017. RT (Romantic Times) Booklovers brings more than 3,500 fans and between 600 to 800 authors together for a celebration of the romance genre. Mark Lefebvre, Director of Kobo Writing Life, interviewed authors
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Yesterday we posted a list of the Top 25 KWL selling titles as sorted by UNITS for 2016 – ie, the volume of titles that have sold. But for today’s list, we’re posting something that the Kobo Writing Life team is far more passionate about, because it leads to a sustainable author-earning strategy that results in more $$$ in the
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Self-Published titles at Kobo represent nearly 1 in every 4 books sold in the English language for 2016. To spotlight some of the highest selling titles by UNIT for 2016, we present the top-selling 25 titles published through Kobo Writing Life by UNIT sales. Mystery/Thriller/Suspense titles led the way in 2016, but Romance, always a strong selling category, remains quite
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SALES ON KOBO TOPPED ALL OTHER VENDORS DURING MY FIRST GLOBAL DISCOUNT-PRICE PROMOTION By Diana Deverell This result surprised me. I’m an ex-pat American living in Denmark and I own a Kobo Mini eReader and a Kobo tablet. I love Kobo. The only eBooks I buy elsewhere are ones sold directly by the author or in bundles. However, through the
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