This blog entry is printed with the permission of www.robertdbennett.com Look, I'm all for publishers (and especially for writers) making money. Profit is why they do this but I'm a bit tired of looking for older books to carry on my Kindle and finding that they are priced more than the print copy. An example. [...]

An interesting experiment  by Amazon is the Kindles Single program. The Kindle is a great place to publish articles, short stories and is probably the only place to effectively publish novellas. To get one of your works into the program you have to send an email to the program, details available here, and ask that [...]

I have 5 projects available on Amazon now and three on Barnes and Noble. I still have two to format and put on the Nook, but there are some issues in conversion that I haven't quite gotten figured out yet. In addition, my author website is up and running, although it is still a work [...]

I just put my next book, actually one I wrote a while back but just published, on Amazon.com and BarnesAndNoble.com. The title of the book is Junebug and the Body and is a comedic mystery set in a small Southern town. Interestingly, this time B&N's PubIt (once again, I hate that name) had the book [...]

This post was originally posted at www.RobertDBennett.com, an author's website. It contains information and views on self publishing that are likely of interest to the readers of DearDude.   Someone asked me the other day if I was still going to look for an agent and publish through conventional means if I had the chance.  [...]

I have had my Kindle reader since October and really love it. I was unsure about using a reader since I don't like the backlight, etc. but the Kindle doesn't have these distractions. What I really like about it is that when I go on trips I don't have to carry a half dozen books [...]