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,
Rebecca Senese and I shared a strange place in the history of Storyteller Magazine before we even met.
I want to like my Sony e-reader.
Lots of people got Kindles and Nooks and e-readers over Christmas this year. These lucky people also apparently decided it was too snowy to go out shopping between Christmas and New Year's, because instead they stayed home and purchased record numbers of e-books.
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.
Not everyone who reads books keeps them. Those of us who do line our walls with books do so because we love books. We like looking at them; we like holding them. Some of us even enjoy dusting them.