03-13-2010, 10:41 PM | #46 | |
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03-14-2010, 01:16 AM | #47 |
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Hi Marcy, and thanks for that. You could well be right. We're pretty new to Smashwords and still learning the ropes. We certainly won't make this mistake next year. Our idea, of course, was that whilst offering free books to those who wanted them that way, we could also open the door to anyone who wanted to contribute a little toward the Red Cross effort in Haiti.
But, of course, there are other ways of giving to Haiti and we should have left the fund raising to experts. At least, though, there'll be a check for a couple of hundred dollars on its way. Actually, there's a way for us to impliment your suggestion right now. At the end of the week (less than two hours from now), we'll be dropping our ebook prices across the board by a couple of dollars. And we had planned to put four selected titles each week on a set-your-own-price basis. It would not seem more effective to make those titles absolutely free instead and change them every fortnight. Thanks again for sound advice ... something I've come to trust here. Very best wishes. Neil |
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Yes, Read an E-Book Week for 2010 is now history. Rita Toews reports:
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03-16-2010, 04:12 AM | #49 |
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***cellphones and smartphones as their primary computing/communication devices, are likely to be a bigger part of e-book reading in the future.***
I'm sure you're right, Steve. And this is one trend that -- unlike dedicated readers -- might well influence the way some authors write. For instance, in Japan five of last year's top ten selling books were adapted from mobile phone novels written in bite-sized episodes of a hundred or two words a day. Poetry and flash fiction also lends itself to mobile phone reading on the hop. Not sure I'd like to tackle War and Peace on a cellphone, but my son -- an avid reader -- goes through many a full novel on his. Cheers. Neil |
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