This week’s GoodeReader eBook of the Week is The Prophecy by Raine Thomas, the prequel to Thomas’ YA romance/fantasy bestselling Daughters of Seraqael series.“Saraqael hadn’t intended to fall in love with Kate. It shouldn’t have even been possible. His kind didn’t experience emotion, and they certainly weren’t supposed to become attached to humans. When he discovers that … [Read more...] about eBook of the Week: The Prophecy by Raine Thomas
Indie Author News
Digital Publishing Strengthens “Dying” Platforms
An article this week in The Economist gave an insightful look at what some publishers may be proclaiming as the death of so-called “chick lit,” the misnomered genre of fiction which is often generalized by light-hearted, contemporary stories of women struggling to balance it all. The article went on to explain that the popularity of this category is on the decline and … [Read more...] about Digital Publishing Strengthens “Dying” Platforms
Authors Strike Back Against PayPal’s Censorship of Smashwords
Smashwords, the popular online ebook distribution platform that recently celebrated the uploading of the 100,000th title to its catalog of digital editions, found itself embroiled in some controversy over a request from PayPal that it remove nearly 2,000 titles that the online payment company considered inappropriate or offensive. Failure to do so would result in the … [Read more...] about Authors Strike Back Against PayPal’s Censorship of Smashwords
eBook of the Week: Rebecca Hamilton
This week’s GoodeReader eBook of the Week title is The Forever Girl, an adult paranormal fantasy, by Rebecca Hamilton. Solving the mystery of an ancestor’s hanging might silence the clashing whispers in Sophia's mind, but the cult in her town and the supernaturals who secretly reside there are determined to silence her first. As Sophia unknowingly crosses the line into an … [Read more...] about eBook of the Week: Rebecca Hamilton
Read An E-Book Week Draws International Authors, Readership
First conceived of by author Rita Toews more than nine years ago as a response to the stagnant acceptance of electronic reading, Read An E-Book Week has slowly built a strong international following among digitally published authors and readers alike. This year’s event, which begins March 4th and carries through to March 10th, has brought authors from eleven countries together … [Read more...] about Read An E-Book Week Draws International Authors, Readership
New French Law Is eBook Theft in Disguise?
One of the many benefits that has come about thanks to digital publishing is the renewed access to out-of-print and hard to find texts. Many authors and publishers are even now reviving their back lists, such as Mulholland, an imprint of Little, Brown and Company, that recently released the digital editions of suspense writer Jim Thompson. But a new law recently ratified by the … [Read more...] about New French Law Is eBook Theft in Disguise?
Ebook of the Week: Rachel Thompson
GoodEReader’s Ebook of the Week feature is proud to feature bestselling author Rachel Thompson once again, this week with her second title, The Mancode: Exposed. Since Thompson’s first book, A Walk in the Snark, appeared as the Ebook of the Week, Thompson has remained busy with her writing, blogging, and social media consulting business, Bad Redhead Media.“I embraced … [Read more...] about Ebook of the Week: Rachel Thompson
IndieReader Helps Connect Authors with Their Readers
One of the major components of successfully publishing a book, whether it is through the traditional publishing route or through self-publishing channels, is getting the book into the hands of consumers. If people don’t know the book exists, the obvious fate of obscurity is sealed.One tool that authors of any ilk have in the toolbox to promote their works is book reviews. … [Read more...] about IndieReader Helps Connect Authors with Their Readers
Indie Authors and Reference Updates
GoodEReader’s Indie Author Initiative has spent nearly a year exploring the various reasons that authors choose to self-publish their works. Sometimes there are logistical reasons, such as the timeliness of subject matter. Occasionally, authors have explained the many creative process reasons that led them to self-publish, such as the desire to set the release date, design the … [Read more...] about Indie Authors and Reference Updates
Digital Publishing Tools at the Indie Author’s Fingertips
Once the furor died down over whether or not digital and self-publishing even had a place at the grown-up table in the world of books, more opportunities opened up for would-be authors. While a great number of indie authors are still lone writers with a book for sale, more and more writers are turning to independent self-publishing in order to shed the constraints imposed by … [Read more...] about Digital Publishing Tools at the Indie Author’s Fingertips
Ebook of the Week: Julia R. Barrett
This week’s GoodEReader Ebook of the Week comes back to all things fun and haunting with Incorporeal, by Julia R. Barrett, available for Kindle or the free dedicated reading app. Read the book blurb here:“Sara Wise is sick of ghosts. They’ve haunted her since she was a child, destroying her family, endangering her life. When an incorporeal being appears in her shower, she … [Read more...] about Ebook of the Week: Julia R. Barrett
Perpetuating the Stigma of Indie eBook Publishing
A post appeared last month from Sarah Lacy, former senior editor at TechCrunch and now founder and editor-in-chief of PandoDaily. In this post, Lacy shared part of the contents of an email from a not-to-be-named publishing executive who blasts Amazon yet again for damaging the business of publishing and bookselling.While the executive’s email takes some cheap shots at the … [Read more...] about Perpetuating the Stigma of Indie eBook Publishing
BookBaby Brings New Services to Indie Authors
GoodEReader has covered news and interviews with BookBabyin the past because they have shown themselves to be a company to watch in self- and digital publishing. With both print and ebook packages, as well as several other branches of the company that work in music distribution, website hosting, and more, they seem to be quietly seeking to be an all-encompassing provider for … [Read more...] about BookBaby Brings New Services to Indie Authors
Graphicly Launches Cross-Platform eBook Distribution
One of the key obstacles to digital publishing, especially for the indie author but also for publishers of graphics-intensive content, is the need to format their work correctly for the various devices on the market. Adjusting for file type and for screen size has led authors and publishers to favor one device, such as iStoryTime’s need to step away from Android and focus on … [Read more...] about Graphicly Launches Cross-Platform eBook Distribution