I just logged in KDP and found out about KDP Select.
It’s a program run by Amazon to enroll your digital works into a Lending library of sorts. There’s an associated shared fund, and there’s also a free promotion option, something that should actually become a standard feature in KDP.
I was a little hasty to assume once the book was included in the premium distribution catalog that it’d be available by Friday, 24/6. It seems it will take up to two weeks for the book to appear there. Smashwords has shipped the e-book to retailers, but I’m pretty sure they weren’t exactly going without …
Finally “Forge of Stones” was accepted in the premium catalog of smashwords. That means that by Friday, Forge of Stones should be available to various other retailers like the iBookstore, the Sony store, Kobo, diesel bookstore, and a couple more I haven’t really heard of.
I’ll post the relevant links as soon as the book’s …
That includes spam. I read that Amazon has been clogged with spam e-books that just want to steal away some cash. First of all, I’d like to know how exactly they do it and with what kind of cash they’re getting away with because as far as I’ve seen, it’s not that easy.
Writing, and publishing, and all that comes with it, is indeed a slow, deliberate process. Hoping that the book at some point will take off on its own merit is like betting on the miraculous recovery of the proverbial dead parrot. Statistically speaking, according to quantum theory, it is possible, it’s just that the chances …