It’s Read an Ebook Week!
Or you know, you could read three or four. It’s up to you. Smashwords is having a big promotion to celebrate the event, and I have Breath of Life and Heart of Gold on sale for 50% off all week long. All you have to do to get the discount is enter the code “REW50″ at checkout. Here’s the link to my author page at Smashwords: http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/ChristineJPope And while you’re over at Smashwords, you might want to check out all the other special...
Read MoreSome More Thoughts About Ebook Pricing
This past weekend I was out riding the rails with my husband (seriously…they have this wonderful $10 weekend pass on Metrolink here in Southern California where you can ride anywhere you want both days, all for just ten bucks), and he mentioned a book he’d been discussing with one of his coworkers. So he whipped out his iPod and located it on Amazon, and was about to download it to his Kindle app when he mentioned that it was $12.99. “Thirteen bucks!” I screeched....
Read MoreThe Numbers Behind the Numbers
Things are continuing to hum along — not at a barn-burner pace, but at least it’s steady. One thing I noticed when I went to look at my my sales reports from All Romance Ebooks is that the sweeping majority of my sales there are in .pdf format. I suppose if I’d stopped to think about it, that would make sense. After all, if you want a .mobi file, you’re probably downloading directly from the Kindle store. Ditto for Nook files at PubIt. But I think a lot of people still...
Read MoreWell, That’s Interesting
No huge post here or anything. I just wanted to put down a quick update on the whole “indie publishing” experiment. I’m not going to list numbers (although trust me, they are nowhere near Amanda Hocking levels), but it appears that in two weeks I’ve sold more copies of Breath of Life at various outlets (Amazon, All Romance Ebooks, B&N) than I did in six months with the titles I offered through my e-publisher. It could be the subject matter (Beauty and the Beast...
Read MoreMeeting in the middle?
There’s been a lot of talk lately about “agency pricing” and how the decision of a group of major NY publishers to go with this pricing model will affect e-book readers in the long run. Numbers have been flung back and forth, and frankly, I don’t pretend to understand half of it because, well, I’m a writer, not an accountant. However, what I am seeing is a lot of commentary by readers (the very consumers you’d think publishers would want to court) saying that...
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