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Self Published eBooks - have you read one, would you read one?
Z Started conversation Apr 15, 2012
Among my many hobbies I run a bookgroup, which I advertise on a website. I find that the vast majority of people who contact my e mail address via bookgroup info are actually authors who have self-published their books on Kindle and hope that we'll read them.
It turns out that there's quite an industry of self-published books available for eReaders, and some have done very well.
Has anyone read them, or published them?
Self Published eBooks - have you read one, would you read one?
Deek Posted Apr 15, 2012
Yes I,ve read one. I tried it because it happened to be mentioned in a local paper. It had apparently topped Amazon's best selling list at the time and one of the co-authors was a local resident.
It was:
Killing Cupid. Amazon eBooks.(Kindle Direct Publishing) £0.49
It wasn't bad, but the plot was a 'bit' unlikely. I enjoyed it well enough for £0.49, but it made me think that I could do better. The authors had another offering which sounded as if it might be the sort of book I'd like and I'll probably get round to that one, one of these days.
Deke
Self Published eBooks - have you read one, would you read one?
TRiG (Ireland) A dog, so bade in office Posted Apr 15, 2012
There's a one I intend to read, because the author is a blogger I read (Ana Mardoll), but I don't yet have an eReader. I think it's coming out in dead tree format at some point, so I may wait for that.
TRiG.
Self Published eBooks - have you read one, would you read one?
Z Posted Apr 15, 2012
The kindle app on android and iPhone is excellent.
Self Published eBooks - have you read one, would you read one?
TRiG (Ireland) A dog, so bade in office Posted Apr 15, 2012
But I have neither an Android nor an iPhone. I'm just not into gadgets, really.
TRiG.
Self Published eBooks - have you read one, would you read one?
Sho - employed again! Posted Apr 16, 2012
there's a kindle app for your PC to... I have some books on my netbook, my phone and my kindle...
Self Published eBooks - have you read one, would you read one?
TRiG (Ireland) A dog, so bade in office Posted Apr 16, 2012
Is there an app available under an FSF-approved Free Software license for a GNU/Linux OS?*
My computer is not actually entirely Free Software. I removed Skype last night, but I still have Adobe flash installed. I really should move from Ubuntu to Debian.
TRiG.
* I don't really expect you to know the answer to that question, or even to know what the question means.
Self Published eBooks - have you read one, would you read one?
Sho - employed again! Posted Apr 16, 2012
thanks for recognising that I'm one of the 
kids who doesn't speak 
er... I have no idea. Sorry. Probably you have to suck it and see. As it were.
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Self Published eBooks - have you read one, would you read one?
- 1: Z (Apr 15, 2012)
- 2: Deek (Apr 15, 2012)
- 3: TRiG (Ireland) A dog, so bade in office (Apr 15, 2012)
- 4: Z (Apr 15, 2012)
- 5: TRiG (Ireland) A dog, so bade in office (Apr 15, 2012)
- 6: Sho - employed again! (Apr 16, 2012)
- 7: TRiG (Ireland) A dog, so bade in office (Apr 16, 2012)
- 8: Sho - employed again! (Apr 16, 2012)
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