I'm a published author – and I'm quitting Amazon for these 5 audiobook and e-book alternatives in 2026

Amazon and Audible aren't the only places to get the best e-books and audiobooks –in fact, these 5 alternatives will make you ...
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Can Self-Published Authors Make Money?

In an era when anyone with a laptop can upload a manuscript to Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing platform, the dream of striking it rich as a self-published author tempts many. But can these writers ...
Business Insider

3 self-published authors who sell their books through Amazon's Kindle share how they built up an email list and social media to sell their books

Authors need good social media and email lists to sell a lot of books directly to their readers. Insider spoke with authors who published on Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing and KDP Select. They ...
Forbes

How To Earn Side Income As A Published Author: 5 Key Considerations

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. True Tamplin is on a mission to bring financial literacy into schools. Turning your writing into a side income can be both ...
People

Cheslie Kryst Wrote a Book Before She Died in 2022. Thanks to Her Mom, It's Getting Published

'By the Time You Read This: The Space Between Cheslie’s Smile and Mental Illness' hits shelves on April 23 Nicholas Hunt/Getty Former Miss USA Cheslie Kryst is set to become a published author more ...
Publishers Weekly

Writing Books Remains a Tough Way to Make a Living

A new author income study released by the Authors Guild provides a dizzying array of numbers and breakdowns about how all types of authors—traditionally published and self-published, full-time and ...
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Temple ISD sixth-grader becomes published author after winning writing contest

A sixth-grader at Bonham Middle School in Temple is now a published author, with his book available on Amazon.
WIS TV

Ten Leaphart Elementary student authors unveil their newly published books

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Ten students at Leaphart Elementary School can now call themselves published authors thanks to a program that gives a platform to young authors. It was all made official with a ...
People

A Grandmother Is Now a Published Author, Thanks to a Heartwarming Gift

“This is probably the nicest thing anybody’s ever done for me in my entire life,” Barbara Rieco says of her present Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant at PEOPLE, where she writes for ...
Publishers Weekly

A Big Five–Published Author Goes Indie

Wait, what? Indie publish after being published by the Big Five? Who does that? Isn’t it the dream of indie-pubbed authors to write a successful book or series that leads to discovery by an agent or ...
The Greeley Tribune

Asking Eric: Self-published author struggles with jealousy

I’m a self-published fiction author. I’m really struggling with jealousy and despair. Every time I see a published book or step into a bookstore, I feel this wave of sadness. I’m trying to get my ...