THIS ISSUE Your audiobook may already be in Kindle+ On October 22, Amazon renamed Kindle Unlimited to Kindle+ and added audiobooks for subscribers in the US. Subscribers can now read a book, listen to it or do both at no extra cost. Listening is paid the same way reading is now, by page, out of the KDP Select Global Fund, and KDP says it's adding money to that fund to cover listening. Some audiobooks went in with no new action from their authors. If you made an audiobook with KDP's virtual...
9 days ago • 3 min read
THIS ISSUE Who sees your Featured section Open a private browser window, search for your own name, and click through to your LinkedIn profile. Look at what's there. Then sign in and look at the same profile again. The first time through, your Featured section is missing. LinkedIn's help pages say that to view someone's Featured content, "the viewer must have a LinkedIn account and must be logged in." Anyone who reads your profile without signing in won't see anything you've featured,...
23 days ago • 4 min read
THIS ISSUE You'd never know it happened Somebody read your book last month, looked for the thing you offered at the back, and never found it. You have no idea it happened. There's no bounce report for a paperback. Three things go wrong back there. Here they are in the order they're most likely happening to you. The first one only exists in print. In Kindle, your link is live, and a reader taps it. On paper, it's a string of characters somebody has to copy out by hand onto a phone while...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
THIS ISSUE Why the review site turned your book down If you submitted a business book to a free advance reader site and were declined, or accepted and then handed almost nothing, they sorted you by who their readers are. Those sites run on one behavior. Somebody signs up because they will take a free book, read it quickly and say something about it afterward. That habit belongs overwhelmingly to fiction readers, so the panels are filled with fiction readers, and a panel like that has little...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
THIS ISSUE Where your description stops Pull your book up on your phone. Scroll down to the description, and read what it says before you tap to see the rest. Whatever you see before you have to tap is the most important part of your book's description. Everything under it gets read by somebody who was already leaning toward buying and went looking for confirmation. The "pre-tap", incredibly short description has to do the heavy lifting to encourage buyers. Authors rewrite descriptions...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
THIS ISSUE Can you log into your own book? This is one of the first things I ask on a call, and the answer tells me more than all the other questions combined. Can you log in today and change your book's Amazon page yourself, without needing anyone's permission? Plenty of authors can't, and they tend to find out at the worst possible moment. They paid a publisher, the publisher uploaded the book, and the account it lives in belongs to the publisher. Royalty statements arrive. Keys don't. This...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
Hi , If you follow my work, you have probably seen me reference Dr. Rod Berger and his book, The Narrative Edge, published by Wiley. Dr. Berger appeared on a local CBS Morning Show, and his book hit #1 New Release in Media and Communications on Amazon. What most people ask is how we got the booking. What I want to tell you is what had to be in place before the booking mattered. The part nobody talks about. A national TV appearance is a visibility event. It generates attention. But attention...
7 months ago • 1 min read
Hi , Amazon has been tightening its AI content policies all year. Authors publishing through KDP are now required to disclose whether their content was generated by AI. Enforcement has gotten noticeably stricter in 2026, with books being flagged, removed, and accounts suspended for noncompliance. This matters to you even if you wrote every word of your book yourself. Here is the opportunity. The market is about to get flooded with a credibility problem. As more low-effort, AI-generated books...
7 months ago • 1 min read
Hi , If you missed this, you need to know about it. Earlier this year, Amazon started allowing DRM-free Kindle eBooks to be downloaded as EPUB and PDF files. That means readers can now take your book off the Kindle ecosystem and read it on any device they want. For fiction authors, this is mostly a piracy conversation. For business authors like you, it is a conversion conversation. Here is why this matters to your bottom line. If your book's back matter contains a call to action with a...
7 months ago • 1 min read
