Arthur Slade's Blog – April 2011 Archive (8)

How to Sell a Gazillion eBooks (No Exaggeration, really)

Well, I'm reaching the last day of the 3rd month of my eBook experiment. Since mid-February I've released several of my out-of-print books and one selection of short stories as eBooks. Here they are below.…

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Added by Arthur Slade on April 30, 2011 at 1:22pm — No Comments

Letter from Ray Bradbury (Pay it Forward)

One of the concepts in life is the whole idea of "paying it forward." In other words if someone helped you get into the position you are at in life today, then instead of paying them back you should pay it forward to the next generation. This happens a lot in writing. If I had to write up a thank you list it would be endless: my parents, teachers, other writers & fans who have dropped me notes of encouragement.…

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Added by Arthur Slade on April 29, 2011 at 5:11pm — No Comments

Worldwide eRelease of TRIBES

Today I'm releasing the ebook of my novel TRIBES worldwide (except Canada*). It will be the fifth ebook of my backlist that I've released so far. To recap here are the others:…

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Added by Arthur Slade on April 15, 2011 at 9:10am — No Comments

Contest Winners

About every three to four months I send out a somewhat glib and perhaps funny newsletter about the "goings on" in my career.

And I always, always have a contest where I give away stuff (because there should be some payoff for reading my newsletter). My… Continue

Added by Arthur Slade on April 14, 2011 at 4:28pm — No Comments

The Haunting of Drang Island on iBooks

Please don't let the cover scare you. I apologize if it causes you to recoil in fear. I just want to let you know that the book is now available on iBooks all across the world:

Just click here for the links to download it to your iPod or iPad (and if you have an iPad2 I don't want to hear about how great it is, okay? Some of us are completely happy with our first… Continue

Added by Arthur Slade on April 7, 2011 at 9:10am — No Comments

How to write and lose weight and make millions (update)

Tempo Fitness 611T

Way back a long, long time (and twenty… Continue

Added by Arthur Slade on April 6, 2011 at 9:56am — No Comments

Dust breaks into the top 100 on Amazon eKids list

I don't usually update my blog twice a day, but something extremely interesting happened today on the ebook front. Just after I finished my last blog I noticed that my ebook

had sold three copies. I thought great! Social networking actually works! Then at lunch time it had sold 10 copies on Amazon. Considering it had only sold 14 copies all last month, I thought this was a perfect start… Continue

Added by Arthur Slade on April 1, 2011 at 7:41pm — No Comments

Ebook Update

Well, I've sold 200,000 copies of my ebooks in the last two months. That's a so-so start but I'll have to live with it. Oh, wait, what's that you're saying? It's April 1st? You're right! How about I tell you the real amount.

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

So, as many of you know, I've been dabbling in the ebook world. I started on Feb 5th (with the release of DUST) and so far I've converted 4 books to the various formats… Continue

Added by Arthur Slade on April 1, 2011 at 10:42am — No Comments

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