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Smashwords: Is Kindle Unlimited Devaluing Books? The Dark Side of Exclusivity

December 26, 2014

Monday Mark Coker, the founder of Smashwords, the company I use to distribute my ebooks to stores, posted an article on the downside to making ebooks available to Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited service. When I decided to publish my fiction writing as ebooks I turned to Smashwords to help get my ebooks to readers. Smashwords has a long list of online stores that they distribute to they have a caveat with Amazon: Due to the way Amazon has set up their Kindle Direct Publishing service they can’t do bulk uploads to Amazon like the other stores do. Fortunately, I can upload my ebooks to Kindle Direct Publishing myself so Kindle users can find my ebooks. But when it came to Amazon’s Kindle Select and Kindle Unlimited I channeled Charles Emerson Winchester III and said, “Thank you, no.” more “Smashwords: Is Kindle Unlimited Devaluing Books? The Dark Side of Exclusivity” …

Can you believe it’s been a whole year?

August 8, 2014

Tuesday marked one year since I published He’s With the Band and it’s been an amazing year. I had no idea that within a year I’d have two more ebooks published, be available in so many stores, and have my ebooks downloaded so many times! more “Can you believe it’s been a whole year?” …

What a diff’rence a day made…

July 21, 2014

… Twenty-four little hours

That song by Dinah Washington got cued up in my head as I was checking the stats on my books today. Not only have I seen He’s With the Band downloaded 80 times just this month, over the weekend someone bought Somewhere… and More over at Amazon. Of course that’s good news but I didn’t realize how much difference a single sale would make in my stats in the Kindle Store. How big a difference? Wow. more “What a diff’rence a day made…” …

Holy crap! Thank you Aussies!!! And a big question.

June 24, 2014

As I was doing my daily numbers check I saw I got a download of He’s With the Band in Amazon’s Aussie store and I realized I had never checked the Amazon worldwide stores to see what my rankings look like. It’s a good thing I wasn’t getting a drink of water when the page loaded. I might have owed the BPL a laptop. more “Holy crap! Thank you Aussies!!! And a big question.” …

We have a new download milestone!

May 29, 2014

Yesterday when I checked my download numbers I saw I was really close to hitting a new milestone in downloads and had a feeling by the time I logged off at the end of the day I would probably have hit it. And I did. more “We have a new download milestone!” …

Want to read “He’s With the Band” away from your ereader? You can do that.

August 27, 2013

Updated 28 August: It’s available at Amazon.com NOW! See below for the link.

He's With the Band cover Since uploading my short story He’s With the Band to Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing I learned that it’s not only really easy to publish an ebook, it’s also easy to print a physical book as well. more “Want to read “He’s With the Band” away from your ereader? You can do that.” …