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• Artsy gift ideas with a romantic theme

  
  LK Hunsaker: Literarily Indie — Authority: 114
  I’ll post more of these later on, but here’s the first batch. Romances that are heart-warming, fun, kicky, and non-graphic: A Knight’s Vow by Lindsay Townsend I picked this one up in paperback for only $3.99 at my local bookstore. I happen to know the author, but even so, I’m not exaggerating to ...
  6 days ago

• No, Amazon Does NOT Lose $2 Per Kindle Book Sold

  
  Munsey's Technosnarl — Authority: 122
  Jesus Christ, now we have to refute stupid articles from three weeks ago. Here’s the problem with Maher and Blodget’s “analysis”:  They don’t know a damn thing about how ebooks get into the Kindle store. Let’s go back to tiering, with an estimate of Amazon’s profits per title. The DTP Store.   ...
  1 week ago

• 101 Degrees Farenheit: Book Review

  
  Learning to Say Yes — Authority: 111
  101 Degrees Farenheit by Eva Gale is the second most downloaded books on Smashwords, second only to  It is a short story running just over 5000 words and is free for download. The story starts out with the heroine, Kathy Roberts’ air conditioner breaking. She props open the door of Great Headz Barber to try to ...
  1 week ago

• A Spark of Heavenly Fire Outtake #3

  
  Bertram's Blog — Authority: 491
  A Spark of Heavenly Fire takes place during the month of December. To celebrate, I am posting outtakes from the book. Like movie outtakes, these are scenes that were deleted from the final version.  Posting them is not as easy as it sounds. Since the original version is no longer in my computer, I have to ...
  1 week ago

• A Spark of Heavenly Fire Outtakes #2

  
  Bertram's Blog — Authority: 491
  A Spark of Heavenly Fire takes place during the month of December. To celebrate, all month I will be posting outtakes from the book. It’s not as easy as it sounds. Since the original version is no longer in my computer, I have to retype the pages from my handwritten draft copy.  Hope you enjoy this behind ...
  2 weeks ago

• A Spark of Heavenly Fire Outtakes

  
  Bertram's Blog — Authority: 491
  A Spark of Heavenly Fire takes place during the month of December. Originally, the story began on the first with the climax at Christmas, but during one of the rewrites, I got rid of most of the first chapter. So, oddly, the story now begins on December 2.  I could have have changed December 2 to December 1, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ebook Now Available from Smashwords

  
  Refuge of Delayed Souls — Authority: 109
  Refuge of Delayed Souls - Volume Two ***Commences 11 December 2009 *** Volume One RoYds can now be purchased at smashwords.com for $1.99 Watch the Book Trailer The Ebook is available in the following formats: Online reading : HTML Online reading : Jarvascript Kindle: .mobi Epub : ...
  2 weeks ago

• Smashwords Hits Kindleverse, Tiering Ensues

  
  Munsey's Technosnarl — Authority: 122
  So Smashwords, they of the 42.5% royalty, has just entered the Kindle Store .  This isn’t quite the game-changer you’d think .  Now, don’t get me wrong, clearly, the Smashwords deal was designed to steal yet more of the Nook/Sony thunder.  And, actually, thinking about the implications of Amazon giving ...
  3 weeks ago

• Free Ebooks Now Available for Deployed Military Personnel

  
  MRS. LIEUTENANT: A SHARON GOLD NOVEL — Authority: 122
  I just came across the September 11th blog post "Smashwords Supports Operation Ebook Drop." The post begins: The other day on the Amazon Kindle message boards, Smashwords author Ed Patterson met a U.S. soldier stationed in Iraq who wanted to download ebooks for his Kindle, yet Whispernet (Amazons wireless download ...
  3 weeks ago

• Have YOU Smashed Your Words Yet? -- c.anne.gardner

  
  POD People — Authority: 420
  All true self-published authors understand that being self-published means making a lot of business decisions. Those business decisions generally fall into two catgorical extremes: astronomically expensive with little to no return on investment or fiscally sound with incremental returns over the long-term. Let’s not ...
  3 weeks ago

• Major News from Smashwords and Kindle

  
  Becoming A Writer - Seriously — Authority: 114
  Smashwords has just announced that authors who publish through its sytem may choose to have their books distributed through the Kindle Store .  This is big news indeed for writers seeking publication and distribution.  Details of the arrangements with Amazon and its authors are spelled out in its announcement ...
  3 weeks ago

• Smashwords books to show up in Kindle store: Shipping to Amazon starts November 25

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 642
  News release follows. – D.R. Smashwords , a global publisher and distributor of independently published ebooks, today announced it will supply ebooks to the Amazon.com Kindle Store. Kindle is Amazon’s wireless reading device that allows customers to downloads books, blogs, magazines and newspapers to a crisp, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Way to Go, Smashwords!

  
  Munsey's Technosnarl — Authority: 122
  Smashwords just got a deal to supply the Kindle store at a better rate for indie authors.  The number is most impressive, 44.5%, and reflects, I guess, Smashwords’ better vetting and production values.  That % is better than the 35% you’d get for going it alone in dtp.amazon.com. Personally, I still ...
  3 weeks ago

• You Got That Right, Ecclesiastes!

  
  Publishing in the 21st Century — Authority: 119
  "All is vanity." Ecclesiastes ********************** The uproar over Harlequin Enterprises launch of a self-publishing venture reminded me of something my father used to say. He was an honest businessman, but every once in a while, when he saw an unscrupulous competitor getting stinking rich, he would shake his head ...
  3 weeks ago

• You Got That Right, Ecclesiastes!

  
  E-Reads — Authority: 601
  "All is vanity." Ecclesiastes ********************** The uproar over Harlequin Enterprises launch of a self-publishing venture reminded me of something my father used to say. He was an honest businessman, but every once in a while, when he saw an unscrupulous competitor getting stinking rich, he would shake his head ...
  3 weeks ago

• FastPencil and BookHabit: New Avenues to Publication and Sales

  
  Becoming A Writer - Seriously — Authority: 114
  Smashwords will help you get your book published in a flash.  But what if you don’t have a book yet?  FastPencil may be the answer. This new online service not only provides publishing capabilities, it also adds in collaboration and editing capabilities, ideal for teams building a book together, or for ...
  3 weeks ago

• Guest Blogger - Neil Ayres

  
  Hawkins Bizarre — Authority: 111
  This week, it came to my attention that the lovely Neil Ayres of the veggiebox blog has published The New Goodbye - a collection of short stories - as an e-book through Smashwords . (Thats Neil, in the photo.) The Smashwords site describes The New Goodbye like this: In this collection ...
  3 weeks ago

• Saturday Midday Links Roundup: Writers Organizations Mad at Harlequin

  
  Dear Author: Romance Novel Reviews, Industry News, and Commentary — Authority: 140
  TBIResearch believes that Amazon is losing quite a bit of money on the ebook market as it tries to drive down prices of books. Publishers are trying hard to maintain a higher price, but researchers and retailers believe that consumers will not pay a high price for ebooks. The good news according to the research ...
  3 weeks ago

• Smashwords acquires BookHabit of New Zealand

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 642
  From the Smashwords press release : Los Gatos, Calif. and Wellington, New Zealand – November 19, 2009 — Silicon Valley based Smashwords, Inc. has acquired Wellington New Zealand company BookHabit Limited, consolidating Smashwords’ position as the world’s premier ebook publishing and distribution platform for ...
  4 weeks ago

• Marvellous Hairy is now an eBook!

  
  The Skwib — Authority: 420
  For those of you waiting to experience the thrills, the laughter and the dementia of Marvellous Hairy until it was in eBook form, your wait is over. You can find it in all the major formats at Smashwords for only $3.99 US. Yes, you read that correctly. $3.99 US. You not only save paper, you save yourself a ...
  4 weeks ago

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