Subject: Teen & YA trends - How to participate?
Teen & YA trends - How to participate?
September 27th, 2017 at 12:12 pm EDTHi Friend, Teen books, coming-of-age, new adult, young adult—you name the segment—we are talking about a huge industry. No matter whether you write Romance, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Mystery or ...
Cozy times ahead
September 18th, 2017 at 9:52 am EDTHi Friend, The popularity of mystery shows no sign of retiring. The books remain as popular as ever. If you are not familiar with it , you may think of them as something "old-fashioned." ...
Business Books = Big Business?
September 10th, 2017 at 9:44 pm EDTHi Friend, Every year, more than 20 million business books are sold in the United States alone. = http://k-lytics.com/business-books/ That's enough reason for us to have a closer look at ...
Where has my Amazon search result data gone?
September 5th, 2017 at 12:13 am EDTHi Friend, You may have noticed that Amazon changed the way it displays category information and search results. In a nutshell, Amazon drastically reduced the transparency of search result ...
Nonfiction for a change
August 16th, 2017 at 10:29 pm EDTHi Friend, I realized with horror that I have not done any nonfiction market report in a while. But then I found this data: The book industry for self-help is estimated to be worth $776 mi ...
Amazon's KU 3.0 announcement - some background
August 6th, 2017 at 9:34 pm EDTHi Friend, Amazon’s introduction of its pay-per-page royalty scheme (KENPC) for borrows two years ago caused much debate. By comparison, Amazon’s recent announcement of Kindle Unlimited ...
The one Kindle genre worth looking at in 2017
July 31st, 2017 at 12:16 pm EDTHi Friend, If you have not looked into mystery, thriller, suspense, or crime literature yet, now is the time. The current performance of these genres on Amazon Kindle is enormous. You can ...
My interview on the Begin Self Publishing Podcast
July 30th, 2017 at 3:57 pm EDTHi Friend, I just had the pleasure of being on Tim Lewis' Begin Self-Publishing Podcast. You can tune in here to listen to or read about the questions we discussed: = http://k-lytics.com ...
A massive market on Kindle + FB audience case study
July 20th, 2017 at 12:54 am EDTHi Friend, The overall demographics of publishing haven’t changed much, but romance readers have. They are increasingly multicultural, and they want more books with characters who look l ...
The Children's Kindle Market 2017
July 15th, 2017 at 9:44 am EDTHi Friend, Amazon recently launched a new Kids Edition version of its Fire HD 8 device. And this is where the opportunity for authors, designers, and publishers comes in: Any device is o ...