Related Articles

• 

  Free Kindle Books (9/16) + Newly Discounted Books Found by Forumners + Amzn Deals

  1797 readersNEWLY FREE AND DISCOUNTED KINDLE BOOKS DISCOVERED BY FORUM MEMBERS Friday, 9/16: Through the day 4 newly-free books so far Sentence of Marriage (Promises to Keep), by Shayne Parkinson, 38 customer reviews, 4.3 stars, $0.00 This is the first book in the three-volume "Promises to Keep" and takes place in 19th Century New Zealand. "The story

• 

  New! The indie ebook hall of fame

  1279 readersI have a major announcement! I’ve been working away this weekend on a little webpage I’m calling The Indie eBook Hall of Fame. This site is designed to be a one-stop filter for readers to help them find the best of the best indie ebooks being reviewed out there in Blogland. To land on the

• 

  In the era of ebooks, what is a book worth? (III)

  1965 readersDiscussion among commenters regarding the prior two installments of this series, In the Era of eBooks, What Is a Book Worth? (I) and In the Era of eBooks, What Is a Book Worth? (II),continue to focus on interchangeability of authors, with some commenters agreeing with the idea and others (the majority) disagreeing. I don’t intend to rehash

• There’s hope for indie authors

  1777 readers There’s hope for indie authors (via The Press Democrat) Published: Sunday, April 14, 2013 at 3:00 a.m. Last Modified: Sunday, April 14, 2013 at 1:07 p.m. “The first thing I did after getting the boot was go out and buy a laptop and start writing,” Sterling said. “I had this one particular story in my head

• 

  Fun with statistics

  941 readersJust for some pre-long-weekend fun, some stats to entertain you I currently have 283 ebooks tagged in Delicious. This represents full-length books only; if I count magazines and other ephemera, my total ‘ebooks read’ are 348. Of those 283 books, 51 of them have been tagged a ‘favourite.’ 11 of these are commercial DRM’d titles 17 of

• 

  Stradivari Quartet recordings now available online – for free

  2109 readers  From The University of Iowa Libraries page: Forty-four years after its first public performance, the Stradivari String Quartet now has audio recordings from 1963-1996 publicly available in the Iowa Digital Library athttp://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/strad. The collection is part of the Iowa Sounds Digital Collection, a growing digital repository of audio recordings that documents the musical and cultural

• 

  Diane Duane gives backlist republishing a twist with e-book revision

  453 readersI wrote earlier for TeleRead about an unexpected—and very welcome—sub-group of indie book: the backlist re-publication. One of the complaints people most frequently have about indie books is that it’s hard to tell the dross from the gold: So many self-published indie titles are one-man or one-woman shops, and people value the notion that with

• 

  Can You Remember Who Wrote The Ebook You Have Just read?

  1278 readersOne of the bad aspects of ebooks I have discovered for myself is that I no longer can easily remember the name and author of the ebooks I read, as opposed to the paper books I read.  And I am not alone in this I have also discovered.   Most people find it hard to

• 

  StoryBundle.com brings Humble Bundle model to e-books

  2471 readersRemember the Humble Indie Bundle, the Humble Indie Bundle 2, and various successors? They applied the pay-what-you-want model to selling sets of popular independently-developed computer games, and have reportedly made a lot of money for the developers, as well as for the charities that they also support. Now a new site, StoryBundle.com, has sprung up that

• Smashwords Hits 200,000 Titles

  140 readers Self-publishing platform Smashwords has now published 200,000 ebooks by indie authors, founder and CEO Mark Coker told Digital Book World. When we sat down with Coker for a wide-ranging interview in May 2012, the company had published about 121,000 titles. The Los Gatos, Calif.-based firm was founded in 2008 after Coker found it difficult to self-publish