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Nonfiction Authors PodcastNate Hoffelder: How to sell digital and physical books directly from your websiteLooking to grow your sales directly? Join Carla King and website expert Nate Hoffelder as Nate waters down what you need to do to sell digital and physical books straight from your website. 2023-05-1725 min $The Writers\' Block Party Podcast$ The Writers' Block Party PodcastEpisode 73: An Interview with Cyber-Security Expert Chuck HallYou thought you were safe. You’re an author—why do you need to care about all that Skynet internet security stuff? Oh, honey. Listen to a fascinating chat with cyber-security expert (and urban legend) Chuck Hall about the steps you really DO need to take to avoid some kind of embarrassing cyber-disaster. And we thought it was only going to be an explanation of Apple’s MMP (Mail Privacy Protection)! Here's the PDF of Chuck's Powerpoint. Meredith recommends the "website concierge" service provided by Nate Hoffelder. His website is https://natehoffelder.com/ 2022-01-2851 min

Self Publishing InsidersAuthor Websites with Nate HoffelderHow's your author website looking? Nate Hoffelder sits in with Kevin Tumlinson to chat about some do's, don'ts, and do-overs of web design. Pick up some tips on how to improve your own homepage!//Draft2Digital is where you start your Indie Author Career//Looking for your path to self-publishing success? Draft2Digital is the leading ebook publisher and distributor. We’ll convert your manuscript, distribute it online, and support you the whole way, and we won’t charge you a dime. We take a cut of royalties on each sale you make through us, so w...2020-10-0147 min

The Kindle ChroniclesTKC 541 Post-Apocalyptic Author Tom Abrahams TV news anchor and author of the Traveler series Interview starts at 10:21 and ends at 41:59 “Writing is a muscle, I think. If you don’t use it you lose that. Because I write every day both creatively and for my job, I think that’s part of what helps me to write as much as I do as quickly as I do. I write under deadline, so creating my own self-imposed deadlines is pretty easy. It’s just instead of having a time deadline I have a word-count deadline or a date. I think do...2018-12-1444 min

Write Hot PodcastDigital Publishing News with Nate HoffelderNate Hoffelder has been building and running Wordpress sites since 2010. He blogs about indie publishing and helps authors connect with readers by customizing websites to suit each author’s voice. You may have heard his site, The Digital Reader, mentioned on podcasts such as The Creative Penn, Wordslinger, or Sell More Books Show. In his spare time, he fosters dogs for A Forever Home, a local rescue group. Learn more at https://the-digital-reader.com/, find his Facebook group @TheHelpDesk, and find him on Twitter and Instagram @thDigitalReader. To find out more about Laura and her work please visit her website at...2018-11-2917 min

Backmatter: The Leanpub Publishing Industry PodcastNate Hoffelder, The Digital ReaderNate Hoffelder is the force behind The Digital Reader, one of the best sources online for up-to-date information and analysis about the book publishing industry and innovation in book publishing and reading technology. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Nate about changes in ebook technology and e-readers over time, about why some devices and approaches have failed, what Amazon is up to with its physical bookstores, and other important issues in the industry, including the choice every self-published author has to make, about whether or not to put all their eggs in one ebook distribution basket. This...2018-01-2500 min

FrontmatterNate Hoffelder, The Digital ReaderNate Hoffelder is the force behind The Digital Reader, one of the best sources online for up-to-date information and analysis about the book publishing industry and innovation in book publishing and reading technology. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Nate about changes in ebook technology and e-readers over time, about why some devices and approaches have failed, what Amazon is up to with its physical bookstores, and other important issues in the industry, including the choice every self-published author has to make, about whether or not to put all their eggs in one ebook distribution basket. This...2018-01-2550 min

Science Fiction & Fantasy Marketing PodcastSFFMP 137: Launching Books That Aren’t “to Market,” Agency Pricing, and Are Ebook Sales Down?Today, we had Nate Hoffelder from The Digital Reader blog on the show to talk about some of the news he’s been covering in the publishing world. The interview ended up being a little shorter than our usual shows, so Jo and Lindsay also talked about their recent book launches in the first segment, including some of the challenges of 2017-06-2150 min

The Kindle ChroniclesTKC 434 Amazon's Seira WilsonSenior Books Editor at Amazon.com Interview ‪starts at 12:41 and ends at 43:35 "[The Wolf Road by Beth Lewis] is one that I personally wanted to see as high on the list as possible. It’s a fictional story set in a post-apocalyptic world. It’s as if we’re living again in the Old West, so there’s vigilante justice, there are small pockets of people living in the wilderness. Searching for gold is kind of back in the day-to-day play, and people are heading north. This young girl, whose parents had taken off to go and sear...2016-11-2644 min

The Kindle ChroniclesTKC 421 Chad W. PostPublisher of Open Letter Books Interview starts at 15:15 and ends at 43:30 Amazon[Crossing] is filling in some of these gaps, because we haven’t for a long time seen the normal mystery book that someone picks up in Spain and reads when they go on their vacation. That’s never been translated into English, because it didn’t seem like it would make a ton of money for one of the big presses, and the small presses are looking for something that’s more patently literary. Amazon’s taken up a lot of those kind of books, w...2016-08-2744 min

The Kindle ChroniclesTKC 415 with OverDrive's David BurleighDirector of Marketing and Communication at OverDrive, Inc. Interview starts at 15:18 and ends at 44:22 I’m happy to report that all of the Big Five publishers have made their titles available for library lending in eBook format. They’ve all been already in for their audiobook format. It's been a couple of years now that they’ve made their decision to add their titles on the front list, mid-list and back list available to libraries. So that’s great news for readers. You’ll see all the New York Times bestsellers and all the different popular lis...2016-07-1544 min

The Kindle ChroniclesTKC 406 Amazon's Peter Korn on Accessibility Accessibility Architect at Amazon’s Lab126 Interview starts at 9:45 and ends at 39:50 We continually evaluate ways we can make reading on the Kindle more enjoyable, more comfortable, more accessible. This led us to create the Bookerly font. This led us to include the open-source OpenDyslexic font. So we continue to evaluate and bring innovations to our customers. News “Amazon borrows from YouTube script, opens marketplace to video creators” by Angel Gonzalez at The Seattle Times - May 10, 2016 “Google’s Answer to Amazon’s Echo is code-named ‘Chirp’ and is landing soon” by Marg Bergen at The Verge - May 11, 2016 “Forget Amazon’s Echo: Lexi lets y...2016-05-1344 min

The Kindle ChroniclesTKC 397 Andrew Albanese on Apple RefundSenior Writer, Publishers Weekly Interview starts at 19:24 and ends at 33:23 I absolutely think it’s madness to continue to push for regulatory input into the eBook market. Look what it did for you last time. Let’s just let the lawyers go away now. We’ve all articulated what we think the problem is in the market. Publishers came together to put the agency model in place, and they perfectly articulated the reason why they believe the agency model should be in place. I think that there’s got to be business solutions at this point. News “Supreme Court Rejects Apple’s Appeal...2016-03-1044 min

The Kindle ChroniclesTKC 396 Translator K. E. SemmelEnglish Translator of Winter Men by Jesper Bugge Kold Interview starts at 20:10 and ends at 41:14 I like the fact that I can tell an editor there [at AmazonCrossing] that this book is something that you should really look for, and they listen. And in this case, from start to finish, I suggested this book, and it became a reality and now I’m sitting with it right here on my desk. News Amazon Tap - pre-order available at Amazon.com for $129.99, with delivery march 31, 2016 Echo Dot - Order from your Alexa or the Amazon app on your Android or iOS smar...2016-03-0444 min

The Kindle ChroniclesTKC 394 Novelist Jesper Bugge KoldAuthor of Winter Men Interview starts at 9:42 and ends at 43:24 I was very scared that it was translated into German. I really wanted it to be translated but still scared, because it’s like their war. I come from another country with another perspective on the war and write about their war and their forefathers. But the reception has been overwhelming. I’ve seen some reviews where they write that every college student should read this book, to read about their past. It’s a lot of responsibility to put on me, but some wrote that they are better able to understand...2016-02-2044 min

The Kindle ChroniclesTKC 392 Kindle Blogger Bufo CalvinCreator of the I Love My Kindle Blog Interview starts at 10:46 and ends at 44:02 If people were evolving away from reading long-form reading, we would not have series. But right now people will say, “Oh yes, that’s great. It’s a 200-page book, but I want a thousand pages about this character. So I think you can make an argument that people are more into long-form reading that they were in the past. News “Mall CEO claims Amazon Books will open up to 400 physical storefronts” by Sam Machkovech at ars technica - February 2, 2016 “Amazon Plans Hundreds of Brick-and-Mortar Bookstores, Mall CEO Says” by...2016-02-0644 min

The Kindle ChroniclesTKC 388 Dave Slusher Creator of the Evil Genius Chronicles blog and podcast Interview starts at 10:47 and ends at 42:22 This idea that books are exempt from the rules of hoarding, that you’re supposed to be happy that you have walls and walls lined with these things? I don’t actually feel that. I feel that if I had one of those book scanners or if there was a program, if Google had a book buy-back program where I could trade them every paper copy I have for a digital copy, I would do that in a heartbeat with almost every book in this...2016-01-0944 min

The Kindle ChroniclesTKC 384 Nick LumFounder and CEO of BeeLine Reader Interview starts at 12:44 and ends at 32:05 They tried it out with the first graders and found that in the control classroom the students’ reading fluency went up by about 8 points in the course of a month. In the BeeLine classroom, they went up by 14 points. News Leather covers by Oberon Design for Kindles and Fires Limited Edition Premium Leather Case for Fire HD 8 - $79.99 Fire HD 8 Reader’s Edition - $249.99 “How to use Blue Shade on your Amazon Fire - but you really don’t want to” by Paul St John Mackintosh at TeleRead - December 7...2015-12-1244 min

The Kindle ChroniclesTKC 383 Bruce JonesGraphic designer, author, product developer and workshop presenter Interview starts at 14:57 and ends at 44:47 So whatever you do, you build products that relate to the knowledge that you have, and the two can feed each other, and you can do them in the same space. News “Take your tablet to bed: Amazon rolls out ‘blue shade’ tool for Fire” by Ellie Zolfagharifard at The Daily Mail - December 2, 2015 “Slice: Amazon grabs one-third of Black Friday online sales” by Ian P. Murphy at RetailDive - December 3, 2015 Amazon press release on holiday sales - December 1, 2015 “Amazon Puts out Hollow Holiday Metrics” by Natasha Lomos at Te...2015-12-0544 min

The Kindle ChroniclesTKC 365 TeleRead Editor Chris MeadowsEditor of TeleRead Interview starts at 11:26 and ends at 37:11 Even if all the publishers remove DRM from every eBook they sell tomorrow, I would be the vast majority of Amazon Kindle customers would go right on being Amazon Kindle customers, just because it’s so easy to tap the button and start reading the book. News “Amazon Kindle Voyage to be Released November 2015” by Michael Kozlowski at Good E-Reader - July 7, 2015 “Amazon Top Pick for Contract to Create N.Y.C. Schools’ e-Book Marketplace” by Michele Molnar at Education Week - July 30, 2015 “City partners with Amazon for $30 million e-book contract” by Eliza Shapiro at...2015-07-3144 min

The Kindle ChroniclesTKC 334 Jeffery DeaverAuthor of The Starling Project Interview starts at 12:16 and ends at 44:00. I don’t have any issue aesthetically with the eBooks like some people do. For me, whatever gets people to read is fantastic. News “eReaders Can Disrupt Your Sleep, and Other Nonsense” by Nate Hoffelder at The Digital Reader – December 23, 2014 […]2014-12-2644 min