Tag Archives: ebooks
Team USA: The Leroy Chase Interview
(Excerpted from Heroes’ Day.) “. . . is it right to place such enormous expectations on our children’s shoulders, to drill them into perhaps expecting too much of themselves?” Leroy was shorter than Monica expected (five-eight, at the most), but no less animated … Continue reading
The Smashwords Formatting Fiasco
I’ve been tweeting bitchfully all week about how I’ve been having some trouble getting the third volume of SuperMegaNet approved for premium distribution over at Smashwords. The problem? I’ve (intentionally) defined multiple paragraph styles in my source document, which is … Continue reading
Read an Ebook Week
Smashwords‘ annual Read an Ebook Week promotion kicked off this morning. That means tons of severely-discounted or free e-books for you to download, now through March 12. Naturally, I’m bringing this up because I’ve got a dozen or so novels, … Continue reading
E-books Outsell Your Mom
Word has it that e-books are now outselling p-books (er, paper books) over at Amazon.com: Amazon released its quarterly report for the end of last year and says that for every 100 books sold on its site, it sells 115 … Continue reading
99¢ Week After Christmas E-book Sale
This year’s “It’s the Week After Christmas—What the Heck Do I Put On My New Kindle?” sale kicks off today at Smashwords. From now till January 1st you can get all of my e-books for $0.99 a pop. Just enter … Continue reading
SuperMegaNet Softcovers, Over and Out. Oh, and Zombies.
No, the above picture has nothing to do with my main blog post. It’s just a really wicked zombie T-shirt design by Aled Lewis that caught my eye over at Threadless.com. Some sad news (or happy news, if you’re an … Continue reading
Popular or Free?
Amazon is segregating its Kindle bestseller list: A representative at [Amazon.com] has confirmed that the company will be splitting its Kindle bestseller list, creating one list for paid books and another for free titles. The date for the switch is … Continue reading
Doing It Digi-Style
The POD People blog has posted a new article on not worrying too much about the printed word’s inevitable yielding to the booming Digital Age. Are dead-tree books becoming extinct? Yes—but the tradition of storytelling via text has never been … Continue reading
Heroes’ Day at Smashwords.com
In keeping with my continued efforts to bring my work into every household I can ruin, onto every e-book reader I can corrupt, I’ve slapped up Heroes’ Day over at Smashwords.com in a variety of e-book formats (HTML, JavaScript, Amazon … Continue reading
