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6 Reasons why KDP is Better than Payhip for Authors

Are you struggling in deciding between KDP and Payhip for your book selling? The short answer for you is KDP. This article will tell you why KDP is more appropriate for a writer, ebook writers, than Payhip. Well, another reader may be asking "what is your position to say so?" No problem. I have experiences in using both for a long period so I have a good position to inform you about this. Defining KDP and Payhip KDP KDP, as you may have known, stands for Kindle Direct Publishing. It is the Amazon e-book self-publishing platform that was launched in November 2007. It helps independent publishers to publish and sell their e-books and paperbacks to the world. KDP does not publish and selll all submitted books, by the way. The submissions will be reviewed for at least 24-72 hours before they are decided whether to publish or not. All books published and sold with KDP are charged from $0.09 to $200.00, depends on the length, size, and type of the book. To put it ano...
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How to Add OJStat FlagCounter and Visitor Online to OJS

All OJS-based Journals can use OJStat to display the visitors online and FlagCounter by following the steps below. First, let us see what is visitor online and flag counter in OJStat are. Visitor Online Visitor Online is a widget provided by OJStat to display the number of online visitors who are visiting your journal at current time. FlagCounter FlagCounter is a widget provided by OJStat to display the number of visitors based on their countries. It is like the popular FlagCounter that you might have known. The difference is that by using OJStat FlagCounter, you do not have to link out to other website. Here is how your Visitor Online and FlagCounter widgets will appear if you put them on the sidebar (the blue box is not included): Beautiful? Of course, I made it. How to add FlagCounter and Visitor Online widget to OJS-based Journal To use the widget, you need to install OJStat first. If you are new to OJStat, it is a free and lightweight Statistics counter app for your OJS-based jou...
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OJStat: Free Statistics App for OJS-based Journals

If you are a journal manager or editor who hosts journals using Open Journal System (OJS) as the publishing platform, you may be wondering how to get the statistics of your journals. The statistics of a journal is important to describe the "popularity" of the journal based on the number of visits, the number of unique visitors, the number of visits that each page in the journal get, and so on. When a journal is submitted for evaluation (e.g., for journal accreditation), more often than not, the journal statistics is requested by the assessors. Therefore, having a journal statistics app sometimes is not optional. [ jump to the latest OJStat ] [ jump to OJStat Official Blog ] There are several website statistics applications on internet, free and paid. The most popular ones are Matomo and Plausible; both require fees for premium use. If you want to get a free and simple (yet comprehensive enough) statistics app for your OJS-based journal, then OJStat is your best choice. What i...
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How to add Comment Policy on Blog

Receiving comments from readers is the most enjoyable thing for a blogger because it means the articles he wrote are read by other people. Furthermore, comments from readers are a sign that your article is getting their attention. However, many bloggers use the comments column as a place to post links or spam or to generate toxic backlinks . How to deal with comments that are irrelevant and contain active links? It's actually easy. You just need to enable comment moderation in Blogger settings. But I'm not discussing that. I have a more "wise" way where readers will be warned about the comment policy on your blog. What is a Comment Policy? The comment policy is a statement regarding the rules for commenting on your blog . For example, you set a rule that comments received on your blog are comments that are directly relevant to your article and you reject and delete irrelevant comments or comments that contain active links without prior notice. That is an example of...
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