Introducing our eBooks …

Moved from our “Books, Marketing and Self-Promotion” Blog … originally posted June 2011, now updated:

Great news! All our books are now available in ALL formats at Smashwords.com … in June we added Kindle to that site although they have been available at Amazon.com/kindle for a year now. So now we eagerly wait to see how they will be accepted … or if they are even found! We have put this off for many years waiting to see how ebooks would be received and also how secure they were from being copied … so this summer we took the plunge into the new revolution in book distribution.

Here’s an interesting tidbit of Amazon fair trade … if you’re Canadian and buy your Kindle ebooks direct from Kindle, you are not helping the author or publisher get their fair share. Amazon keeps half of the commission (35%) whereas if you are a US purchaser, the author/publisher gets 70% . We have Kindle books available at Smashwords if you wish to help us out!!

We recently had a free giveaway of one of our ebooks via our J Robert Whittle Fan Club page on Facebook . If you’d like to receive these special offers, go on over to our FanClub Page and join us. Don’t forget to set your FB notifications to receive emails.

In these tough times, we want our books to be available to the countless thousands of supporters who have been there for us in the past 12 years and to the other countless thousands who have heard about our books via media publicity and word of mouth … so if you like our books, now you don’t have to pay shipping or visit Victoria, BC to purchase them. Naturally, we’d love it even more if you decided to buy our paperback books through our website but hey, we understand!

Where can you find our ebooks?

Smashwords.com is a unique ebook provider for self-published authors and they work FOR the author (because the owner, Mike Coker, is an author and knows how tough it is for us).  Also, Smashwords is presently in negotiations with Amazon and it’s now looking like ebooks in the Smashwords’ Kindle format will be available on Kindle at the end of 2011. This could be a benefit to both readers and authors but time will tell what happens as it could also be confusing.

I have now had my Kobo eReader since my birthday in March and absolutely love it. I was having some issues with it crashing and the WiFi not downloading my books, so they replaced it and allowed me to upgrade to the new model … the one with the touch screen. That happened in early June and I’ve read almost 5 complete novels since then. Not bad considering I haven’t read for my own pleasure since I started editing Robert’s books! I find I’m a much faster reader now which really shocked me!! A week ago, I bought my first Smartphone, a very new Samsung Android, Galaxy S2. So, now I have both Kobo and Kindle handy at all times.

I think I would rather read than work

If you read ebooks solely on your computer … I liked Adobe Digital Editions (ADE). I’m able to categorize my books into genres, purchased, etc.

If you’re a writer who is considering epublishing, I highly recommend Smashwords.com and the Facebook Group: Indie Author Group … a highly motivated group of authors and wannabees who share info and promote with and through like-minded souls. Come check it out.

So, thanks for visiting … and happy reading to all!!