Tag: Amazon

• My Thoughts on Amazon’s New KDP EPUB & PDF Download Option

  

  Amazon is introducing an optional KDP feature that allows DRM-free eBooks to be downloaded in EPUB and PDF formats. Some authors have raised concerns about piracy. In this post, I explain why I am not concerned and why I believe this change is a positive one for readers.

  Richard Holliday

  December 20, 2025

  Articles

  Amazon, KDP, kindle, publishing, writing about writing

• Cover Story: Nightmare Tenant/Foundations

  

  An overview of things I learned when commissioning the Nightmare Tenant cover image when self publishing.

  Richard Holliday

  June 2, 2022

  Articles, Writing

  Amazon, Book design, Cover design, foundations, Marketing, Nightmare Tenant, Self publishing, writing about writing

• Book Thoughts: Abandoning eInk for Real Ink

  In 2011 I got my first and so far only Kindle – a grey Kindle 4 – and it revolutionised how I read. And now it sits begotten and forlorn on my shelf in its battered folio case, surrounded by paperbacks. Honestly even thinking about this makes me realise how irrational this is. But front…

  Richard Holliday

  September 14, 2019

  Articles, reading

  Amazon, Book Thoughts, Hardback, paperback, Physical books, Waterstones