No more writing book proposals and dealing with literary agents. Amazon’s suite of services for authors makes it possible to bypass traditional publishing companies -- and prosper.

Ward has written 34 titles — 33 of which were sold through Amazon's self-publishing program — and booked more than $100,000 in Amazon royalties last year, which Insider verified with documents.

That said, the online retailer continues to sell new and used hardcover, paperback, and e-books, both online and through the Amazon Kindle.

Topline A self-published book about Maui's wildfires that shot to the top of several Amazon Kindle bestseller categories days after the fires broke out has raised suspicions, as the mysterious ...

Mark Dawson, who has reportedly sold millions of copies of books he wrote himself through Kindle Direct Publishing, was quick to call ChatGPT-assisted novels “dull” in an email to Reuters.

Authors need good social media and email lists to sell a lot of books directly to their readers. Insider spoke with authors who published on Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing and KDP Select. They ...

On Monday, Amazon introduced a new policy that limits Kindle authors from self-publishing more than three books per day on its platform, reports The Guardian. The rule comes as Amazon works to ...

Publishing a book through Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing turned out to be both easier and harder than I thought.

With concerns mounting over the impact AI-generated books are having on the e-book market, Amazon has created some new guidelines. Specifically, in a post late yesterday in the KDP Community Forum ...

Mark Dawson, who has reportedly sold millions of copies of books he wrote himself through Kindle Direct Publishing, was quick to call ChatGPT-assisted novels "dull" in an email to Reuters.