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Sunday, November 14, 2010

AuthorsDen Offers New Free E-Book Program

Even though I have a Web site of my own, I have been a member of AuthorsDen for a number of years. For a number of reasons. But lately they are on a roll. I thought my subscribers would want to know about their new e-book program. Here is the letter directly from the AuthorsDen president:

Free Service Coming Soon!

We have a big surprise for you!

On Monday November 15th, at 12:00PM PST you will be able to sell your books right from your pages on AuthorsDen.com and earn 100% of the profits!

This is a huge new release, so we are staging it in two parts:

Stage 1: November 15th, you can participate by simply uploading your existing PDF files of your books and book covers so, get your files ready!

Stage 2: Mid-December time-frame, we will launch an online suite of writing and collaborating tools to write, edit, publish, and sell your books. Again, you keep all the profits.
I'd like to take this opportunity say thank you for your participation on AuthorsDen!

You have helped make AuthorsDen.com a wonderful author and reader community for all to enjoy. The community support that we witness everyday we login is amazing and the feedback you've provided has been incredible over the 10 years we've been online. I believe you will be delighted with our new service as it is a reflection of my strong belief that Authors create their works and should hold onto the profits as well.

Please let us know what you think.

Matt Miller
Founder of www.AuthorsDen.com

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Carolyn Howard-Johnson, author of This Is the Place; Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remembered; Tracings, a chapbook of poetry; and how to books for writers including, The Frugal Book Promoter: How To Do What Your Publisher Won't; The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success; and Great Little Last Minute Editing Tips for Writers . The Great First Impression Book Proposal is her newest booklet for writers. She has three FRUGAL books for retailers including A Retailer’s Guide to Frugal In-Store Promotions: How To Increase Profits and Spit in the Eyes of Economic Downturns with Thrifty Events and Sales Techniques. Some of her other blogs are TheNewBookReview.blogspot.com, a blog where authors can recycle their favorite reviews. She also blogs at all things editing, grammar, formatting and more at The Frugal, Smart and Tuned-In Editor . If your followers at Twitter would benefit from this blog post, please use the little Green widget to let them know about this blog:

3 comments:

  1. Good info! As always...

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  2. Just found you while investigating AuthorsDen from a Lulu link! Having newly joined AD as a Lulu author the 'roll' happened in first week. You describe it as a 'Free EBook Program' yet I understand it to be describing paperback books? It seems to be offering 100% of the profits to the authors thereby directly competing with eg Lulu? Glad to have found you Caroline!
    PS Do you sell any books through AD?

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  3. Linden, I don't use AD to sell books. In fact, I (almost) don't do anything to sell books. It's my theory that if we get expose for our books and ourselves, the books sell themselves. 'Course, we have to have a great book! (-: AD has a huge number of benefits. I use it mostly to distribute my newsletter, as a backup for my regular Web site (www.howtodoitfrugally.com), for networking and, yep, for exposure! (-: Besides, you'll hear me say over and over again, when a book sells, it's really hard to know exactly what "sold" it. Usually it isn't one site. Usually it's a combination of things the reader has seen or heard that finally get them interested enough to buy a book.

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