Dec 08
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.
That being said, I enrolled …
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Jun 23
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 …
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Jun 22
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 …
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Jun 17
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.
Then …
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Jun 11
I’m not trying to say the book is a bomb, but what if does bomb? What are the bombing margins for a book? When can someone tag it as a success, or a failure? Is it arbitrary? Is it my personal opinion alone?
I saw somewhere that success for a writer, is, or rather should …
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Jun 09
Yes. It’s pretty much of a nightmare. Or if that sounds too much, not a nightmare per se, but rather like trying to push the Earth out of orbit. By doing push-ups.
It’s frustrating, I’ll admit, and what’s probably worse, it seems like Forge of Stones is a niche book in a niche market.
I’ll …
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May 21
Though it’s been two months since Forge of Stones was published, I’m still trying to grasp the finer points of publishing and e-book publishing in general, which seems a stranger breed than a mere look would imply.
I must have submitted the e-book version to Smashwords for six or seven times. I kept getting verious …
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May 10
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 …
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Apr 06
Just got word from my editor – Magda Karavasili – that the first paperbacks have arrived. These were copies I ordered from Amazon for the National Library of Greece, to finalise the ISBN assignment process. From what I can gather, these copies are filed and made available to the public. That’s the cost for an …
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