John Green's YA novel The Fault in Our Stars is currently #16 at Amazon and the guy is a promotional genius. So how does he use his fame? To attack independent authors and tilt at windmills.

Going through my first Kickstarter campaign, I learned a lot that I wanted to share with others considering this route to crowdfund a novel or writing project:

For years publishers have insisted that what happened to the music industry won't happen to them. Yet when we see what's happening in publishing I fail to find an instance where publishers aren't subscribing to the same model music companies did.

We all get the silent treatment, regardless of where we are in our careers. Don't let it discourage you. Instead use this time as a way to assess, realign, or add to your skill set. I promise that if you do, someday the cone of silence will lift.

By Sabrina Ricci for IndieReader.com Indie publishing is a growing trend. According to Bowker Books in Print and Bowker Identifier Services, over 2...

In this interview Guy talks about his views on what he feels are the biggest mistakes authors make when it comes to marketing their books.

Guy shares his thoughts on publishing and why he decided to forgo the traditional model and go indie. In this interview Guy talks about his views on what it means to be self-published.

In this interview, Guy shares his thoughts on publishing and why he decided to forgo the traditional model and go indie.

In this interview Guy talks about the process of self-publishing and what makes it a better option. Guy shares his thoughts on publishing and why he decided to forgo the traditional model and go indie.

Guy shares his thoughts on publishing and why he decided to forgo the traditional model and go indie. In this first of a five-part interview, Guy talks about his decision to self-publish and how his book APE came to be.

Seeing your book cover for the first time is like waiting for that guy from Match.com to show up at the restaurant. You've laid out your expectations and supposedly so has he. But will he actually look like the date of your dreams?

With all of the options out there to publish, it's pretty tempting to just point and click your way to a completed book. It's hard enough to compete in publishing. Put in the effort and put forth your best book. Does your book deserve anything less?

By Terri Giuliano Long for IndieReader.com Not too long ago, traditional publishers held all the cards. If publishing houses rejected a book, it...

Do you believe reviews? A majority of us don't, but more often than not we believed the consumer reviews. Not so much anymore, especially now when reviews can be bought, or in some cases, simply faked.

By Terri Giuliano Long for Indiereader.com Every day it seems another superstar self-publisher signs with one of the Big Six. In April, Darcie C...

From writing through production, I was done in two months. That included having the book professionally edited and copy-edited, getting a cover designed, my own proofreading, and seeing the novella formatted and loaded for Kindle and the Nook.

The truth is that this dispute is not about saving literature or the sanctity of the literary world, it is about the publishers' business model.

Questions arise about the viability of poetry publishing in an age of narrow audiences and little financial reward, and about gate-keeping, quality control, editorial integrity and the technologies of dissemination.

It's a golden age for writers and entrepreneurs and all other seekers and dreamers. Get out there and live it -- the indie way.

For many authors, the decision to indie publish is a no-brainer. Sure, it's work, but it's interesting work, and you have a shot at fair compensation for your efforts.

by Melissa Foster and Amy Edelman for IndieReader.com Several predictions have stated that 2012 will be “The Year of the Indie Author”. After ...

Does $2.99 say that I'm worth reading? Or am I still better off charging less than a dollar and letting people find that out for themselves?

Yale, Harvard, Oxford, Princeton--these are the names that instinctively come to mind when university presses are mentioned. But hold on--there's something brewing in Huntsville, Texas, too.

Peter Dougherty has been at the helm of Princeton University Press -- one of the country's most outstanding publishers -- since 2005.

Indie publisher Melville House announced today that it is publishing what it’s calling HybridBooks, “an innovative publishing program that gives p...