The review highlights the recent BookExpo America, the largest publishing event in North America – where self-publishing events have increased year on year. The Next Generation Indie Book Awards held at the Harvard Club have witnessed an 20 percent increase in author entries, and the Indie Reader Discovery Awards were also part of the event.
Brittany Turner from Amazon.com said self-publishing authors were “energised” by the news that the indie publishing space was continuing to grow and evolve. She also said that self-published authors were branching out into different genres, and that they were becoming increasingly better at marketing themselves.