Podcast #12: Kevin Tumlinson, Draft2Digital
Kevin Tumlinson is Marketing Director at Draft2Digital and a prolific best-selling author of thrillers. Draft2Digital was founded in 2012 to provide an easy way to format and distribute your ebook.Tuesday, September 18, 2018 on the Author Friendly Podcast with Carla King Listen and subscribe About this episodeOne of D2D’s recent partnerships is with Bibliotheca, which extends their reach […]
Podcast #11: Christine Munroe, Kobo Writing Life
Christine “Chrissy” Munroe is Director of Kobo Writing Life, a digital self-publishing platform from Rakuten Kobo who partnered with Walmart to provide Walmart eBooks and a co-branded app. (See my blog post Walmart eBooks takes on Amazon Kindle: What does it mean for authors?) Before joining Rakuten Kobo, Munroe was a foreign book scout and literary […]
Podcast #10: Kinga Jentetics, PublishDrive
PublishDrive is an ebook aggregator that serves self-publishers and small presses. The company is based in New York City and Budapest, Hungary. Kinga Jentetics is co-founder and CEO of the company, which competes favorably with other aggregators in distribution, royalties, reporting, analytics, and an easy-to-use author-publisher interface. PublishDrive made a recent deal with Chinese e-commerce […]
Podcast #9: Bryan Cohen, Best Page Forward
Best Page Forward is a book description copywriting service for authors founded by Bryan Cohen in June 2015. Since then they’ve provided over 1200 book descriptions for authors like you. Book descriptions are one of those things most authors find difficult to do… or difficult to do well. It’s not our fault! We’re good at writing, […]
Podcast #8: Elizabeth Mays, Pressbooks
Pressbooks is an affordable book design and formatting tool based on WordPress. In this conversation with Elizabeth Mays, Director of Sales & Marketing for Pressbooks, you’ll learn how it works, how much it costs, and tips for success in designing and formatting your books and in the self-publishing process in general. See more in the episode […]
Podcast #7: Greg Ioannou, PubLaunch
Greg Ioannou runs a hybrid publishing house Iguana Books and uses his crowdfunding platform PubLaunch to help authors fund their books before publication. You can use it, too. He’s expanding the company to provide a marketplace to not only serve Iguana Books but the larger author-publisher community. In this episode, we talk about how PubLaunch works […]
Podcast #6: Mark Coker, Smashwords
Smashwords began in 2008 as the first ebook distribution company for self-publishers and remains the world’s leading ebook platform. I’ve known Mark now for a decade and have watched his journey as Smashwords has evolved not only to help authors get your books distributed to the online retailers but to market your ebooks with features […]
Podcast #5: AC de Fombelle, StreetLib
StreetLib is an ebook and print book creation and distribution platform that can help you create plain ebooks in EPUB format and fixed-layout EPUBs from a PDF doc. You can sell your book in the StreetLib store, on your own StreetLib author page (with your logo), and create a curated bookstore from the other […]
Podcast #4: Colin Higbie, Scribl
Scribl is an ebook creation, publishing, and aggregation service with some very innovative marketing features. One of those is called CrowdPricing ($CP), which helps authors attract more readers by allowing reviews to determine the price of the book. Another is called Story Elements, which lets you categorize your book in a more granular way […]
Podcast #3: Paul Kilpatrick, BetaBooks
BetaBooks solves the problem of managing comments from your critique partners and early readers by centralizing them in this easy-to-use online platform. In this episode, co-founder Paul Kilpatrick and I talk about the different ways to use the platform and how beta readers are essential to your book and author marketing. You’ll learn how […]