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Kobo Writing Life: Opening Its Doors

July 17, 2012 by Matthew Iden

As many of you already know (if you signed up for the author alert), e-reader maker and e-book distributer Kobo has just finished beta-testing its self-publishing platform, Writing Life and released it upon a suspecting world.

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Kobo: The Heavyweight Challenger?

July 10, 2012 by Matthew Iden

I interrupt the second Tip Tuesday to talk about something that will have vastly more impact on your writing career than eliminating adverbs or what back matter to put in your books.

Back in early June, eReader company Kobo announced its launch of Writing Life, a platform for independent authors to self-publish their works. I came a little late to this game, but with some persistence emailing the Kobo Support Team, I was able to glean a few details that I’m not sure are publicly, or at least widely, available yet.

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Posted in: Epublishing News Tagged: amazon, epublishing, ereader, Kindle, kobo, kobo writing life, Rakuten, royalty, writing

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