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| | The Write and Publish Fiction Network is not currently active and cannot accept new posts | | Tips for unpublished authors Part One... | Views: 937 | | Sep 17, 2008 6:41 pm | | Tips for unpublished authors Part One... | # | 
Meredith Greene | | Over the last year, being a small online business, we've amassed quite a few notions on improving and advertising our work, some of which have blossomed into actual, useful tips for internet-connected writers. I'll begin by posting a small piece a colleague of ours wrote about modern eBooks VS traditional publishing, a blog in which he interviewed my husband, and fellow writer, about our company and how we are slowly breaking into the industry:
"Traditional Publishing May Be a Thing of the Past:
Even books are going 'green'.
Ebooks do not require paper, printing nor trucks to distribute them and can be purchased with the click of a button; US books buyers are starting to seek them out.
According to the AAP website (American Association of Publishers), Ebook sales are up 20.1% this year over last year in the US; while audio book sales fell compared to last year's figures, Ebook sales totaled 2.6 million dollars in US sales for February 2008 alone.
The US is actually a little behind in this trend; in 2006 Japanese cell-phone users were downloading novels to the tune of $58 Million dollars, a 331% increase over the previous year's figures, according to the Digital Content Association of Japan.
More and more of us spend ever increasing amounts of time on the computer and surfing the Web; time is precious and it only makes sense that the computer is where we'd do the majority of our reading. Though a tiny number of traditional publishing houses have recently begin to offer digital books on their websites, the vast majority seem a little slow to hitch their wagon to the Ebook star. With the ease of posting content on the Internet, unpublished authors are more than willing to flood in to fill this gap, unconsciously creating a revolution in the book publishing industry.
In a brilliant move of foresight, Amazon came out with the Kindle, a hand-held Ebook reading device that sold out before it was even available for mass distribution. Even more impressive is the Kindle Store, a collection of Ebooks that can be downloaded to any Kindle, in which any person, published or not, can upload their own material to the store to be presented and sold.
More unpublished authors are simply creating their own Ebooks store sites and offering their novels directly to the masses, bypassing entirely the idea of the 15% royalty. BelatorBooks.com, an online Ebook company offering romance fiction, historical adventure novels and humor books has seen sales increasing each month by 25% since the launch of their site in January 2008. They attribute their success so far to sites like Fictionpress.com, where thousands of amateur writers place their books for free for review and critique. Belator Books' initial posting on Fictionpress was the romance fiction novel Draw Me a Picture, which has received over 354 reviews.
Belator Books author Stephen Wayne Greene told me in an interview: “Sites like Fictionpress are basically acting like an editor for many unpublished authors, which is an invaluable service... for free. Not all the books posted there get good reviews, so it helps you know if you have a winner or not. Also, our site receives a good amount of advertisement just from readers clicking into the bio. I will state, though that writers should be careful to copyright their work before posting it on the web.”
Greene revealed that he and his wife (and fellow writer) Meredith Greene do their own advertising and get site visitors via free listing website like OnlineNovels.net and eLibrary; they also advertise by writing blogs on LiveJournal, Gather, Ebay and by posting pieces on literary message boards all over the Net. With merchant services sites like PayPal and Payloadz, the Greenes are able to sell their books seamlessly while working on the next one.
In the world of big box mentality, the Internet has long been viewed as a beacon of light to the small, unknown entrepreneur. Finally, books are no longer an exception. For many writers, the Internet has become the new Printing Press.
- Gino the Blogger"
http://ginotheblogger.livejournal.com
Private Reply to Meredith Greene | | Sep 17, 2008 8:46 pm | | re: Tips for unpublished authors Part One... | # | 
John Wolf | | I agee with your observation. I've had good response to the books I've placed on the Kindle reader system. I haven't posted my books on the website as an eBook yet, maybe I should. My thoughts were about eThieves ripping off the book, then pirating it. Then again, that is a form of advertisement.
John Wolf
FoxandQuill.com
JohnWolfBooks.com/books
http://generalspecifics.blogspot.comPrivate Reply to John Wolf | | Sep 18, 2008 5:44 am | | re: Tips for unpublished authors Part One... | # | 
Ritu Lalit | | I do not think we have Kindle in India - would like to know more. Private Reply to Ritu Lalit | | Sep 21, 2008 4:51 pm | | re: re: Tips for unpublished authors Part One... | # |
Meredith Greene | | website:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FI73MA/ref=amb_link_6369712_3/104-5559693-3421555?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-1&pf_rd_r=0FV1MWEP5QKS33ZRA8QM&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=435656501&pf_rd_i=507846
Click the video on the left-hand corner.
MeredithPrivate Reply to Meredith Greene | | Sep 21, 2008 4:55 pm | | re: re: Tips for unpublished authors Part One... | # |
John Wolf | | If you have access to Amazon, you have access to the Kindle reader system, which is an electronic reader they sell. As an author, you can upload your book to Amazon's server from home to be included in the list of books that are then sold for the reader. You receive a royalty for each one sold. Private Reply to John Wolf | | Sep 22, 2008 6:45 am | | re: re: re: Tips for unpublished authors Part One... | # |
Ritu Lalit | | Thank you for the link and the information. Very enlightening Private Reply to Ritu Lalit | | |
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