Eisler is joining a growing number of authors who are walking away from legacy publishers.
Luckily Smashwords has a 73 page manual on how to format your MS word document so that it will upload nicely as an e-book.
Forest fires regularly sweep through Northern Ontario during the summer months, and if a town is in the way it has no chance. In 1979 the town of Cobalt, Ontario near Lake Tamiskaming lost a good chunk, with only the church, a few homes and a decaying strip plaza spared.
I note this morning that Amanda Hocking's Switched (see post below) is for sale on Amazon Kindle for 99 cents,
I want to like my Sony e-reader.
While I've trashed the Sony E-reader a couple of times when comparing to the Kindle, a whole new world just opened up for the little device: Google has launched their new Google ebookstore.
Amazon and Sony have crossed the line from e-book stores to publishers, although they're using a very old method to recruit want-to-be-authors: self-publishers, also known as vanity presses.
For those of you who have a life and don't have time for the article: the salient prediction is that Amazon and the Kindle will move from 50% e-book market share to 90% market share.
The Crime Writers of Canada asked me for an article on e-books for their newsletter. The article I wrote above turned out to be very similar to one they'd published last month. Who knew? I'm not the first person to see this coming.
Amazon's Kindle e-readers may cost you some bucks, but the Kindle reader software is free to download onto your computer.