Cora cracks the Italian market… and beats George R.R. Martin
Apparently, beating Ireland in the Euro 2012 (2:0 in this case*) makes readers in newer Kindle store countries eager to buy my books, for less than a week after breaking into the Spanish market, I...
View ArticleMore publishing doom and gloom, another bestseller and July sales figures
Ewan Morrison, self-proclaimed doomsayer of the imminent death of literature, publishing and Western culture as we know it, is at it again and informs us at the Guardian that social media does not...
View ArticleClik here to view.
New Collection Available: Heartache and some e-reader news
First of all, Amazon has opened a Kindle store in India, though it seems to be a special section of Amazon.com rather than a standalone website like e.g. Amazon.de or Amazon.fr. Nonetheless, Indian...
View ArticleEven more on sockpuppets and fake reviews
We’re still talking about sockpuppets and bought reviews, so here are the latest links: A group of mostly crime writers has published a sort of open letter condemning paid reviews and sockpuppeting...
View ArticleKDP Select Redux
You’d think it would be old news by now, but we’re talking about KDP Select again, probably prompted by the recent Amazon announcement that KDP Select users will now receive 70% royalties for any...
View ArticlePegasus Pulp e-books now available at Amazon Brazil
Amazon apparently opened a Brazilian store today, so now all our e-books may also be bought at Amazon BR. The full list of available titles is here, while links will be added to the respective book...
View ArticleCora hits two bestseller lists just in time for Christmas
This must be some sort of new record, because no sooner had I published two new releases that they already hit the respective Amazon genre bestseller list. And it happened not for one but for both new...
View ArticleAmazon versus Thalia – A Comparison
I’ve been an enthusiastic customer of Amazon.com and later Amazon Germany from the time I got onto the Internet on, because Amazon gave me access to the English language genre fiction I loved to read...
View ArticleThe FAZ hates e-books – or does it?
The Passive Voice links to this Discovery article about the information retention comparison between digital and print media carried out by the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz. The article...
View ArticleWhy Amazon Voodoo doesn’t work
Forbes has an interesting article citing a new study that 48 percent of all Amazon book purchases are made by people who search for a specific item and then buy it. Meanwhile, seventeen percent of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
German TV discovers indie publishing
I’m currently in Halle on Saale (for what I’m doing there, see here) and just saw a news report about the opening of the Leipzig bookfair (which is currently taking place barely thirty kilometers from...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A German Bestseller
Unter der Knute, the German edition of Under the Knout, has edged onto the category bestseller list for German language short fiction at Amazon DE at No. 92. Nr. 92 in Kindle-Shop > eBooks >...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Mixed E-Book Links of Interest
For starters, the indie versus trad publishing or maybe both debate is still going on (and will probably be for a while yet). SF writer Tobias Buckell cautions writers eager to jump into indie...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The E-Book Revolution and the P-word
At The Atlantic, Noah Berlatzky takes on the problem of erotica e-books being big moneymakers on the one hand, but something of an embarrassment for many retailers on the other. He also addresses the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A bestseller right out of the gate
My brand-new story Love in the Times of the Macrobiotic Müsli has only been published for a few days and has already hit a bestseller list at Amazon Germany. Well, it was always clear to me that this...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ideological book formatting and the NDR discovers e-books
First of all, I was interviewed today by erotic romance writer Clarissa Wild, so come on over and say hello. Here is a cautionary tale about hiring external help to bring your e-book to market. The...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Kindle spotted at Media Markt
First of all, I’ve got a plug, for the good folks at DriveThruFiction are currently offering the Read and Feed America 2013 charity bundle, which collects more than thirty e-books from various,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Seraglio hits an Amazon.com bestseller list
Seraglio has been my bestselling title for a while now, though unlike many others, it has never hit a category bestseller list, at least not on Amazon.com. The reason is that Seraglio was not in a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
“Thirty Years to Life” is a bestseller in Canada
Amazon Canada has never been a big market for me ever since they opened their Kindle store some time ago. Most of my Canadian sales come via Kobo or at least used to before the recent unpleasantness....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Yet More Bestsellerdom
The newly introduced subcategories for historical fiction (see this post for more) have catapulted yet another of my titles onto an Amazon.com category bestseller list, for Under the Knout has made it...
View Article
