Kobo Writing Life Podcast – Episode 093 – Interviews from When Words Collide
Episode 93 includes a series of short interviews that KWL Director, Mark Lefebvre conducted at the 2017 When Words Collide conference in Calgary, Alberta. Mark speaks…
How My Self-Published Book Sold 180,000 Copies And Nearly Doubled My Revenue
[This is an abbreviated excerpt of a longer article written by Michael Bungay Stanier on GrowthLab.com. There are links within this excerpt that link to the…
Take Your Writing Career To The Next Level at 20BooksVegas
by Craig Martelle Ready to take your writing career to the next level? 20Books Vegas — an independently published author convention by and for indies —…
TCK Publishing Podcast Interview with Kobo Writing Life’s Mark Lefebvre
Tom Corson-Knowles, Founder of TCK Publishing, recently interviewed KWL Director Mark Lefebvre on the TCK Publishing Podcast. In the interview, Tom and Mark discuss a wide…
Indie Author Fringe: Get Your Book Out There
Kobo Writing Life Director Mark Lefebvre recently joined Kevin Tumlinson, Director of Marketing at Draft2Digital for a London Book Fair Indie Author Fringe session entitled: Get…
How to Grow Sales in France
If you write in English and have translated your books into French or some other foreign language, you’ve undoubtedly found yourself faced with the unique challenge…
Go Global with Kobo Writing Life
Did you know that when you publish with Kobo Writing Life your books are not just available for sale at Kobo, but are also available in our…
New Pricing Control
Setting The Price On a New Book You will first set the price of your book starting with your default currency. If you set a list…
How My Sales on Kobo Topped All Other Vendors
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…
Build Your Global Sales with Kobo Writing Life
NOTE: This piece originally appeared on The Book Designer. By Christine Munroe Why should self-published authors and small publishers distribute directly to Kobo? And how can…
When Should I Publish My eBook?
While there currently is no commonly accepted global release date for books and eBooks, traditionally they are published on Tuesdays in North America and Thursdays in Europe.
Going wide? Absolutely!
By Ethan Jones You have heard the old saying, “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.” It is cliché, but it is also true. Every…
How I Doubled My Annual Kobo Sales in 2015
NYT bestselling author Cristin Harber recently blogged about her efforts over the last year to expand retailer market share at Kobo. We loved the story and…
Kobo Writing Life Podcast – Episode 040 – Bryan Cohen
While every author has heard the age old advice that it’s important to have a professional looking and beautiful cover that appeals to the book’s target…
11 Tips for Promoting your Book
Written by Tim Inman # An essential to-do-list for independent authors from whitefox # There’s more to self publishing than just writing the book. Promotion is…
Selling More of Your Series Books on Kobo
One of the best ways to enhance and increase your sales is to ensure you are providing the best quality metadata (Metadata = the data that…
Reader Reviews
Reader reviews are BACK at Kobo! As authors know, reviews definitely help readers decide whether or not they are going to buy a book or download…
A Dead Price Point
By Mark Lefebvre, Director of Self-Publishing & Author Relations, Kobo “I see dead prices!” Yes, I know, I’m riffing on a line from M. Night Shymalan’s…