Last week Amazon came out with the KDP Select program to entice authors in making their ebooks available through the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library to earn a percentage of the $500,000 pool for this month. Mark Coker pointed out on the Smashwords blog and Huffington Report why the KDP Select program is bad for indie [...]
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December 14, 2011 by C.D. Reimer · Comments Off
Filed under: Ebooks
Social Tagging: ebooks • promotions
Filed under: Ebooks
Social Tagging: ebooks • promotions
July 31, 2011 by C.D. Reimer · Comments Off
Filed under: Submissions
Social Tagging: dead trees • ebooks • internet • short story
Filed under: Submissions
Social Tagging: dead trees • ebooks • internet • short story
After I got serious about being a fiction writer five years ago, I always bought a copy of “The Novel & Short Story Writer’s Market” (Writers Digest Books) to find new markets for my short story fiction. Every six weeks I would spend a weekend browsing through the current N&SSWM, finding markets that fit my [...]
If you’re interested in publishing your short stories as ebooks, you might get confused by the different formatting requirements of the Word document for Amazon and Smashwords. After studying the Smashwords Style Guide, I came up with an ebook template suitable for both with minor modifications. The template files can be downloaded from below. Please [...]
March 24, 2011 by C.D. Reimer · Comments Off
Filed under: General
Social Tagging: dead trees • ebooks • email • office supplies • snail mail
Filed under: General
Social Tagging: dead trees • ebooks • email • office supplies • snail mail
The writing blogosphere is alit this with the news of Amanda Hocking, a 26-year-old writer from Minnesota who had written nine ebooks and sold 900,000 copies, was looking for a traditional publisher and signed a four-book deal with St. Martin’s Press. That’s like winning the lottery. For those of us tolling away in relative obscurity [...]
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