@indieauthornews@indieauthors.social
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May 07, 2026
IndieAuthors.Social News
@indieauthornews@indieauthors.social
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Bookwire Report Shows Growth—and Opportunity—in the Spanish Language Digital Publishing Sector
The company's overview of the Spanish-language digital publishing sector points to growth in both ebooks and audiobooks across the global marketplace and offers key insights into market trends.
The post Bookwire Report Shows Growth—and Opportunity—in the Spanish Language Digital Publishing Sector appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
https://publishingperspectives.com/2026/05/bookwire-report-shows-growth-and-opportunity-in-the-spanish-language-digital-publishing-sector/
#Audiobooks #BookDistribution #Bookwire #DigitalPublishing #Ebooks
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@hollandnumerics@mastodonapp.uk
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May 06, 2026
Philip R Holland
@hollandnumerics@mastodonapp.uk
SAS consultant and devout computer techie with an interest in beer, photography, Japanese culture, York City FC, Altair SLC, Linux and web apps. Blog: blog.hollandnumerics.org.uk
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We would just like you to read them, and maybe suggest updates and improvements, and write reviews for the blog site and inside the ebooks for the next editions.
#sas #altairslc #ebooks #discount #prepublication
https://hollandnumerics.org.uk/2026/05/buy-3-new-ebooks-about-altair-slc-directly-from-this-blog-site-at-pre-publication-prices/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social
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@smashedratonpress@mastodon.sdf.org
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Apr 26, 2026
SmashedRatOnPress
@smashedratonpress@mastodon.sdf.org
We publish as we please, no matter what gets in our way. https://smashed-rat-on-press.com/catalog-red.html (Please try not to follow me. Watchers make me even more paranoid.)🌈🦄
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News on Draft2Digital and other avenues for publishers of erotica... Alternatives, etc. (I was surprised to learn that D2D bought Smashwords, btw, which I thought of as one of the last bastions of more-or-less sanity.
https://eroticmythology.com/draft2digital-alternatives-erotica-authors-writers-2026/
#books #ebooks #draft2digital #smashwords #bookstodon #erotica
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Die entscheidende Frage für Autorinnen im digitalen Zeitalter
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@dnkboston@apobangpo.space
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Apr 16, 2026
Deb Nam-Krane
@dnkboston@apobangpo.space
Indie author, parent, human rights enthusiast, cancer survivor. Proud Korean, proud Jew. Life's too short, so I block Substack posters as well as NYT posts, and mute BlueSky references. I hate crypto and AI, but everyone else here does, too. Picture is a Mother's Day present from my son and his girlfriend. Foreground is a picture from the Boston Commons.
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I used #Smashwords as my distribution platform for my ebooks. (I do not sell anything on Amazon.) #Draft2Digital merged with SW, and I should have known something like this would happen.
I don't sell a lot--I haven't marketed in years--and I can afford the fee. But this is a sign of worse to come. Should I just sell on my website? Or is there another similar service?
https://goodereader.com/blog/digital-publishing/draft2digital-is-going-to-implement-fees
#indiepubishing #d2d #ebooks #enshittification
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@rayckeith@techhub.social
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Apr 13, 2026
Third Foundation
@rayckeith@techhub.social
"But they were all of them deceived, for another Foundation was created"; fan of "star (trek|gate|wars)", he/him, married
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some public domain works that are less than 100 years old #scifi #books #ebooks #publicDomain #stories
H.Beam Piper
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/8301
George O. Smith
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/8137
Clifford D. Simak
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/25185
Isaac Asimov
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/35316
Robert Silverberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/28358
Andre Norton
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/7021
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@getbookshelves@mastodon.social
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Apr 11, 2026
BookShelves eBook Reader
@getbookshelves@mastodon.social
We love books! Indie ebook reader for Mac & iOS — 100,000+ free classics from Standard Ebooks & Internet Archive. EPUB, PDF, MOBI + iCloud sync. https://getbookshelves.app
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Amazon just pulled Kindle Store access from every Kindle released before 2013. The hardware still works. Your books still work. Side-loading EPUBs over USB still works.
The fix is the same one that's worked since 2007 — and here's exactly how to do it, step by step:
https://lk0.eu/bks901m
#Bookstodon #ebooks #kindle #FediReads #OpenAccess
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@indieauthornews@indieauthors.social
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Mar 31, 2026
IndieAuthors.Social News
@indieauthornews@indieauthors.social
I am a news BOT created by IndieAuthors.Social to help inform indie authors and the readers that love them. If you write author-related news or blogs made available via RSS/ATOM feeds and would like me to share your posts, toot my human benefactor @indieauthors.social@admin to inquire further.
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Writing Interactive Fiction
First published: Feb 13, 2014; Updated 30.3.2026. Back in 2014, then ALLi member and self-published author Michael La Ronn wrote a short post for the Self Publishing Advice Centre about a genre into which he was deciding to venture. If…
The post Writing Interactive Fiction appeared first on The Self-Publishing Advice Center.
https://selfpublishingadvice.org/writing-interactive-fiction/
#Writing #ChooseYourOwnAdventure #ebooks #ereaders #interactivefiction
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@hollandnumerics@mastodonapp.uk
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Mar 09, 2026
Philip R Holland
@hollandnumerics@mastodonapp.uk
SAS consultant and devout computer techie with an interest in beer, photography, Japanese culture, York City FC, Altair SLC, Linux and web apps. Blog: blog.hollandnumerics.org.uk
mastodonapp.uk
More discounts on my paperback books at https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/hollandnumerics until 13Mar2026 + 30% off paperback sales from 01-30Mar2026!
Also you can download my ebooks at reduced prices at https://hollandnumerics.org.uk/book-table
Tell your friends and colleagues!
#sas #altairslc #books #discount #ebooks
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@ben@mastodon.bentasker.co.uk
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Feb 27, 2026
Ben Tasker
@ben@mastodon.bentasker.co.uk
I'm Ben and I'm rubbish at writing bio's. I'm a general geek, who's core skillsets boil down to trouble-shooting and reverse engineering. I mostly talk about #Tech, #Monitoring, #SoftwareDevelopment, #Privacy & #Security If you want to send messages encrypted with PGP, you can find my key in the links below. My Toots auto-delete after a month (https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/opinion/arguments-for-and-against-auto-deleting-mastodon-toots.html)
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New #Blog post: Moving our #ebooks to #Booklore
Over the weekend, I saw someone else's blogpost about Booklore and got nerd sniped by the mention of working Kobo sync support.
This week I've been playing around with migrating our book collection over to Booklore along with getting it working with a Kobo
https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/general/moving-ebooks-to-booklore.html
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@sophiajanehayden_author@indieauthors.social
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Feb 26, 2026
Sophia Jane Hayden, Author
@sophiajanehayden_author@indieauthors.social
I have always loved a good story: around the dinner table, in a book, on the screen! Imagination is free, writing is hard, storytelling is EVERYTHING! I've traveled quite a lot, love nature and fine dining!
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Starting on March 1st, my titles will be 50% for the week-long ebook sale at Smashwords.com. Flicka's LOVERS, The Fifth Seduction, BEER POUR #ebook #ebooks #sale #sales #smashwords #writing #readingCommunity #reading #read #readers #march2024 #marketing #deal #tikTok #romancelandia #romance #satire #humor #scribesAndMakers #writersCoffeeClub #writer #writers #author #indieAuthor #indieAuthors #indie #socialweb #novels #novel #love
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@indieauthornews@indieauthors.social
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Feb 24, 2026
IndieAuthors.Social News
@indieauthornews@indieauthors.social
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News Summary: Amazon Launches Immersion Reading in Audible, Linking Audiobooks and E-books
Audio continues to dominate the news. And after Spotify and others hogged the limelight last week, Amazon is determined not to be left out of the frame. They have just launched what they are calling "immersion reading" in Audible.
The post News Summary: Amazon Launches Immersion Reading in Audible, Linking Audiobooks and E-books appeared first on The Self-Publishing Advice Center.
https://selfpublishingadvice.org/amazon-launches-immersion-reading/
#Amazon #Audible #audiobooks #ebooks #formatconvergence
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@theDuesentrieb@social.linux.pizza
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Feb 02, 2026
Daniel Düsentrieb
@theDuesentrieb@social.linux.pizza
I put the tea in IT 
Programmer in the JVM world by day, libertarian socialist/anarchist by night "We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. But so did the divine right of kings." - Ursula K. Le Guin This account contains a heavy load of radical politics and ttrpg, you have been warned, ads, I left the hyperactivity for the tryhards posting in german and english Banner image: https://anarchismus.de/blog/theorie/das-ruder-herumreissen-ein-anarchistisches-programm-fuer-macht-
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Sosehr ich meine #Bibliothek auch liebe, die haben leider nur die echt grottige Übersetzung von Das Rad der Zeit.
Darum hab ich jetzt den Schritt getan und den Vorteil von ebooks genutzt, der auch so ein gigantisches Werk in eine handliche Größe bringt (zumindest gewichtsmäßig)
Das schwierigste dabei war eine wirklich DRM-freie Version vom TOR zu bekommen:
https://torpublishinggroup.com/the-complete-wheel-of-time/?isbn=9780765376862&format=ebook
Es gibt auch eine von Little Brown Book was wohl einfach der UK Verlag ist. Trotzdem hat mich dieser Amazon prime sticker abgeschreckt bei denen abgeschreckt, da wollte ich doch beim Ursprungsverlag bleiben.
Am Ende hab icb es dann bei Kobo gekauft (weil dort DRM freies epub) und es dann auf mein Pocketbook gezogen, auch wenn Kobo den Download button gut versteckt und mir stattdessen ihre Webview oder App aufquatschen will.
Sollten e-books nicht alles bequemer machen?
#RadDerZeit #WheelOfTime #RobertJordan #booktodon #ebook #ebooks #kobo #pocketbook
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For my birthday I got a colour e-reader (Kobo Libra Colour). The obvious 1st book to read was The Neverending Story with its two colour text, red for our world green for Fantastica. But there don’t seem to be any ebooks recreating those original editions, they just use italic text. And all the illustrations are awful quality black and white.
Challenge accepted.
I’ve edited the text to be multi colour, and scanned illustrations from my old paper copy!
#ebooks #kobo #TheNeverendingStory
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@paulox@fosstodon.org
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Jan 01, 2026
Paolo Melchiorre
@paulox@fosstodon.org
🐍 #Python developer · 🦄 #Django contributor · 🥑 #FreeSoftware advocate · 🗣 #Conference speaker · 🐧 #Linux user · 👨🔬 #ComputerScience engineer 🦄 #DSF board member 🐍 #PSF fellow 🧡 #DjangoGirls coach 🚀 #DjangonautSpace navigator 🍝 #PyConItalia organizer 🇮🇹 #PythonItalia member 🐬 #PythonPescara founder 🏖️ #DjangoOnTheMed organizer 🎓 #UniBo alumnus ⚖️ License #CreativeCommons BY‐SA 4.0 🖼️ Header: Me on stage at #DjangoCon US 2023 👤 Avatar: Me wearing the #DjangoCon US 2022 lanyard
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I suggest you support Standard Ebooks 📚
“Standard Ebooks is a volunteer-driven project that produces new editions of public domain ebooks that are lovingly formatted, open source, free of … copyright restrictions, and free of cost.” ⚖️
See what’s free to read on January 1 👇
https://standardebooks.org/blog/public-domain-day-2026
Please boost 🙏
#StandardEbooks #PublicDomain #PublicDomainDay #Copyright #Ebooks #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #Python
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