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The Author Email List: What the 2025 Indie Author Survey Says About Earnings

The strongest predictor of what an author earns is not talent, and it is not who published them. Written Word Media’s 2025 Indie Author Survey collected 1,346 responses from authors. Authors with an email list reported median earnings of about 300 dollars a month. Authors without one reported about 15 dollars a month. Twenty times,

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Can You Publish a Kannada Book on Amazon KDP? What KDP Actually Supports in India

If you write in Kannada, you cannot publish a Kindle ebook in your own script. Amazon KDP supports five Indian languages for ebooks: Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Marathi and Gujarati. That list is on KDP’s own supported languages page. Kannada is not on it. Neither is Telugu, Bengali, Punjabi, Odia or Urdu. For a Kannada author

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How to Get a Free ISBN in India, and What You Are Actually Paying For

An ISBN in India is free. Not discounted. Not subsidised. Free. It is issued by the Raja Rammohun Roy National Agency for ISBN, which sits under the Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Education, Government of India. The portal is isbn.gov.in. There is no fee at any stage of the application. That one fact should

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What Nobody Tells You Before You Write Your First Book

Everyone talks about the joy of holding your published book for the first time. Nobody talks about the six months before that moment. I’ve worked with dozens of first-time authors through Write n Publish. Teachers, professors, retired professionals, entrepreneurs. People with real stories and real knowledge. And almost all of them hit the same walls

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