Tools and Services

If you have an active membership at Publishers Marketplace, you can now use AI to help fuel your search for the right agent for your next book.

Amazon has filed suit against 20 individuals who run publishing services that deceive authors into thinking they are endorsed by Amazon.

Two independent publishers have launched an online marketplace that matches publishers with printers.

Scribd is separating its digital content across three products, with ebooks and audiobooks moving to a new app called Everand.

Launched by a group of authors, Pacific Islanders in Publishing offers resources for breaking into publishing.

The change is prompted by demands from some booksellers and online retailers that purchase through Ingram’s wholesale distribution network.

If you’re willing to spend time on quality prompts and a bit of research, you can get usable marketing copy from AI tools.

The Internet Archive has long scanned print works then lent them as ebooks through its website.

Computer scientist and computational linguist Benji Smith took down his site Prosecraft after authors expressed outrage at its existence.

D2D is dipping its toes into paid services for authors.

For authors and publishers who don’t use USPS Media Mail, USPS has a new shipping service that replaces first-class packages.

To be effective, storybuilding AI requires careful and high-quality input from writers.

Written Word Media, a book marketing service primarily for authors, now offers promo stacks to help schedule and run book promotions.

Apparently, Scribe’s assets are in the process of being sold off, although a buyer has not yet been determined.

Ream recently moved out of beta and is open to any author who wishes to join.

Book discovery site Shepherd (see our 2022 coverage) has rolled out new features that make searching for recommendations easier. You

If you want to learn how to earn money selling subscriptions direct to reader, the folks at Ream are hosting a three-day summit May 5–7.

This article was written by a human (I swear).

PubSpot gathers all the educational content that IBPA has produced—articles, webinars, podcasts—and puts it in one spot.

Draft2Digital is now opening up its print-on-demand service, which is powered behind the scenes by Ingram, to all authors.

Testing and targeting can make or break your BookBub ad.

The latest product launches in the generative AI space.

Aerio allowed anyone anywhere to immediately become an online bookseller at no cost, using the power of Ingram to fulfill orders.

Indie author Nicholas Erik calls it “nothing short of a marketing gamechanger.”

OpenAI, the research laboratory responsible for GPT-3, recently debuted ChatGPT, a general-purpose chatbot that uses GPT-3.5.