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EBOOK SALES
from Amazon.com
Thanks to the KINDLE program almost all our ebooks are now listed at Amazon.com, who launched their new ebook reader on Black Friday and were sold out by Dec. 1!
Follow this link to check out Kindle.
or search your name on amazon.com to find your ebooksonthe.net titles already
available for Kindle books
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News on the Home Front
Best Seller Lists, & New Features
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CURRENT
www.ebooksonthe.net
BEST SELLERS
at FICTIONWISE*
1. MISTWORLD, by Nina M. Osier
2. A MEDIC IN IRAQ, by Cole Bolchoz
3. BLEEDING HEARTS, by Josh Aterovis
4.SWAN SONG by by Brenda M. Boldin
5.JAILBIRD, by Bremda M. Boldin
6. TORTURED SOULS, Matthew L. Schoonover
7. GOLDEN LEGEND, by Robert Legleitner
8. A BRIEF MADNESS by Robert Legleitner
9. A BIRD BY ANY OTHER NAME, by Brenda M. Boldin
10. LOST SON OF IRELAND, by Dorice Nelson.
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www.ebooksonthe.net*
HIGHEST READER RATED*
BOOKS at Fictionwise*
*Reader Favorites.
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1. BODILY HARM, by Arlene Stadd
2.GHOST DANCER by Arline Chase
3. MYSTRIOUS AFFAIR AT STYLES, by Agatha Christie
4.SLOW DANCING WITH THE ANGEL OF DEATH, by Helen Chappell
5. ARMY OF THE DEAD, by Ray Morand
6. SHAPE OF FEAR by Matthew L. Schoonover
7. BLEEDING HEARTS, by Josh Aterovis.
8. TORTURED SOULS by Josh Aterovis
9. NAKED, by Ed Petty
10. CLUES TO LOVE, by Nancy Madison
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*Please remember that this listing reflects only books
sold by our small publishing company an does not
encompass all titles sold at Fictionwise.
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Current
Cambridge Books
BEST SELLERS*
at www.cambridgebooks.us
Booksurge and Amazon
This list reflects the past six months worth
of sales and is updated monthly.
*Does not include copies purchased by authors for review
and publicity purposes, or titles
that sold only one copy.
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1. TOO CLOSE FOR WORDS,
by Diane Marquette
2. ESCAPE FROM IRAN, by Darius Radmanesh
3.NIGHT OF THE TIGER, by Debi Emmons
4. BOOK PROMO 101, by Nikki Leigh
5. MYSTERIES OF THE EASTERN SHORE, by Andy Nunez.
6. FELLING OF THE SONS, a Bonanza Novel, by Monette Bebow-Reinhard
7. MURDER ON MARGIN by Carroll M. Jones
8. INVISIBLE REVOLUTION: Clay Aiken and the Fans who Made Him a Star, by Terry Piper.
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Mobipocket
Best-Seller List
As we have just begun with Mobipocket, our Best-Seller List will begin with fewer and
slowly grow to ten
1. SENSE AND SENSIBILITY, by Jane Austin
2. EMMA, by Jane Austin
3. MISTWORLD, by Nina M. Osier
4. NAKED, by Ed Petty
5. GOLDEN LEGEND, by Robert Legleitner
6. CHEATIND DEATH by Judy Reveal
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KINDLE Best Sellers on Amazon.com
1. EMMA by Jane Austen
2. PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, by Jane Austen
3. ANNE OF GREEN GABLES, by L. M. Montgomery
4. THE SEA HAWK, by Raphael Sabatini
5. TARZAN OF THE APES, by Edgar Rice Burroughs
6. RETURN OF TARZAN,
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All Romance Ebooks
Best-Seller List
As we have just begun with Mobipocket, our Best-Seller List will begin with fewer and
slowly grow to ten.
1. FAILED SLAVE by Dolly LaMar
2. THE KYDON CHRONICLES (ALL FIVE BOOKS) by Robert Legleitner.
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Glad to be in Amazon's Baskett
The following is quoted from Publisher's Weekly's Daily website.
"Amazon has notified publishers who print books on demand that they
will have to use Amazon's POD facilities if they want to sell their
books directly on Amazon.com, the Wall Street Journal reported.
"The move signals that Amazon is intent on using its position as
the premier online bookseller to strengthen its presence in other
phases of bookselling and manufacturing," the Journal
continued. Amazon "has evolved into a fully vertical book publishing
and retail operation. Most recently, Amazon acquired audiobook seller
Audible Inc. Amazon also sells its own ebook reader called the Kindle."
Our customer number with Booksurge is 00001, so we were with them a long time before Amazon bought the company. But we must say the service there has improved greatly since Amazon came on board. Both quality of product, and efficiency of service are better than ever.
So for Cambridge Books and our authors, this is GOOD news..
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Click Here to Listen to a Radio Interview with
Arline Chase, publisher@ebooksonthe.net
or Write Words author Dorice Nelson.
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NEW BOOKS
for May 2008
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TOO CLOSE FOR WORDS
by Diane Marquettei
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THE APPRENTICE
by David Berardelli
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CHESAPEAKE HARVEST
by Terry L. White
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WET AND HUNGRY
by Beverly Lynch
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FULL TIME WIFE
by Anna Dynowski
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GUNMAN'S RECKONING
by Max Brand
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Author of the Month
David Berardelli
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The best way to contact David is via e-mail
by clicking on this link
David Berardelli lives on his horse farm in Pass Christian, Mississippi, about 14 miles from the Gulf of Mexico.
What did you want to be when you grew up? And how does that tie in with your writing life today?
I started out as a musician, but as much as
I loved music, writing always came first. I've been writing since
my early teens. I was drafted in '69 and spent two years
playing in marching bands and at military funerals. I couldn't wait
to get back home so I could write again.
What books influenced your life in your early years? And why.
I grew up reading Edgar Allen Poe, Algernon
Blackwood, and Charles Dickens. As I grew older I read Theodore
Sturgeon, Ray Bradbury, Robert Bloch, Richard Matheson, Charles Beaumont, and
Harlan Ellison. I like stories that are different, that say something
scary or unique about human nature. Lord of the Flies gave me
nightmares. Fahrenheidt 451 also scared me. So did A Clockwork Orange. The Collector fascinated me. Every book I've
ever read has inspired me in some way.
What do you like to read now? And why? What is the best book you’ve read this year?
Whatever sounds interesting. I enjoy
Elmore Leonard because he's great with character and dialogue.
Christopher Moore never fails to crack me up. I also like Robert Parker's
Spenser books. The best books I've read recently are Mitch Albom's
Tuesdays With Morrie and Five People You Meet in Heaven. Very wonderful,
enlightening books. I loved them both .
Who is your favorite character of all time and why?
Hannibal Lecter. He's a
brilliant, colorful, multi-layered personality. Of course, he's got
an unhealthy appetite and several really nasty habits, but we live in a
violent, confusing world now. Lecter's not that radical when you
consider what people are doing to one another. Anyway, nobody's
perfect..
What made you choose your genre or subject matter?
I'm a big "what if?" type of person, and if
the subject matter lends itself to horror, suspense, or comedy, that's where the
story goes. People and what they do with their
lives constantly provide me with ideas. .
If a young person asked you for advice about the best way to start a writing career, what would you tell him or her?
Develop the thick, impenetrable hide of
a crocodile and be prepared to be rejected. Unless you're a celebrity, a
former President, a convicted murderer, the child of a published novelist,
or an athlete on steroids, no one is going to care about you. It's going
to be years before you see print. The professionals will reject you
year after year, even if your work is good. To make it as
difficult for them as possible, become the very best writer you can
be. Read Strunk's Elements of Style, Sol Stein's books, and John
Gardner's On Becoming a Novelist
If you take a writing course, use your
gut to evaluate it as you go. Even the best schools can hurt you
without meaning to. I studied fiction writing with two professional
novelists at a highly-regarded correspondence school and my writing actually
suffered. The writing profession is the cruelest, most competitive I have
ever seen.
Because of the Internet, even the tiniest publications are
being deluged with thousands of submissions a month. But no matter what
the negatives are, stick with it. As Harlan Ellison once told me, "Study
the market, see what's selling nowadays, and try to do better." A writer
doesn't quit just because of constant rejection. Eventually you'll
find someone who cares about you and likes your work. They're nearly
impossible to find, but they're out there.
Five years ago, what was your goal as a writer? And what is it now?
For the last five years, I've been looking
for an agent to represent me. Since I haven't found one and
doubt that I ever will, I've decided to handle my career on my own. I
trust myself more than I can ever trust a stranger, so I consider my decision a
sound one.
If you had a magic wish what would it be?
I wish people would start using their
brains. The older I get, the more evidence I see of people not
realizing that they've got potential activity up there above the brain
stem. They're not reading like they used to and not thinking -
possibly because everyone expects his computer to do everything
for him. I see misspelled words on television and hear adults -
many with college educations - speaking at a third or fourth grade
level. In spite of the Information Age, society is gradually becoming an
intellectual wasteland.
Is
there anything that is important to you that an article about you
should say, that has not been touched on in this questionnaire?
I would like to thank Arline Chase,
Shelley Chase, and all the other nice folks at Write Words for taking
the time to read THE APPRENTICE and include it in their
catalog. I would also like to thank my
infinitely patient mentor, Barbara Sloan, for having enough confidence in
me and my work to spend the last few years tutoring me. And, of
course, my lovely wife Linda for sticking by me all these years.
David Berardelli's Book
The Apprentice is available in electronic format
starting in May, 2008, at:
www.ebooksonthe.net
www.fictionwise.com
www.mobipocket.com
and its affiliates, including
in Kindle format at www.amazon.com
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Mobipocket Expands Marketplace
Mobipocket, an Amazon Company announced this month that it would actively seek subsidiary commercial outlets for the publisher's works listed on their website.
What does this mean for publishers?
It means that many more on-line stores will carry their products for sale when they are distributed from the mobipocket.com site. In short the marketplace will expand greatly. When more stores carry the work, chances of customers finding the work in increased and a wider marketplace is created. Mobipocket will collect for the subsidiary sales, keep a percentage, and distribute the rest to the publishers, who will pay the authors as they already do.
What does this mean for authors?
Author's books will be available from more online stores. Sales may increase, but how greatly the will increase remains to be seen. At least the books will be available in more places if readers seek them out
Authors who have "Google Alerts" on their books may receive many notices from the new sites. Please check to see if it's a Mobipocket affiliate, or a Fictionwise affiliate, before reporting the new dealers as pirates.
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A Change in the Wind
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Harper Collins's New PaymentPolicy
From the NY Times
In a move that surprised many industry insiders, HarperCollins announced on
Thursday that Robert
S. Miller, the founding publisher of Hyperion, the adult books division of
the Walt
Disney Company, would leave his post of 17 years to lead this new, as yet
unnamed entity.
The new unit is HarperCollins’s effort to address what its executives see as
some of the more vexing issues of the book industry. “The idea is, ‘Let’s take
all the things that we think are wrong with this business and try to change
them,’ ” said Mr. Miller, 51. “It really seemed to require a start-up from
scratch because it will be very experimental.”
The new group will also release electronic books and digital audio editions
of all its titles, said Jane Friedman, president and chief executive of
HarperCollins, a unit of the News
Corporation.
At this moment of real volatility in the book business, when we are all
recognizing things that are difficult to contend with, like growing advances and
returns and that people are reading more online, we want to give them
information in any format that they want.”
The new group is entering a difficult market for books generally. Citing
economic uncertainty, the Borders
Group announced last month that it was considering selling itself. Barnes
& Noble also said it expected first-quarter results to be slightly down
from the previous year.
Author advances and bookseller returns have long troubled the publishing
industry. Best-selling authors can command advances so high that publishers
often come away with slim profits, even for books that are significant
successes. Publishers also sometimes offer high advances to untested authors in
the hopes of creating new hits, but often those gambles do not pan out.
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Promotional Opportunity
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BECOME the "Author of the Month."
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MARKETING TIP
OF THE MONTH*
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When to Begin Your Promotion
When
you consider promotion, it’s important to know when to start promoting
your book. There are many different thoughts about this question. I
posed this question to several forums and these are some of the answers
I got.
- When the book is available.
- When the final editing is complete.
- When
the contract is signed.
- Six months before the book is scheduled for release.
- Twelve months before the book is scheduled for release.
- When you finish the first draft
- When you feel the story won’t change substantially.
- When you begin to write the
book.
- When the idea is first taking shape.
There’s
a lot of variety in those answers. I can understand many of these
answers, but I have a different idea about when you should begin
promotional activities. At
the latest, your promotional work should start when the contract is
signed. However, some publishers have a short delay before a book is
released. When you sign with a quick publisher, there will be little or
no time to promote your book before its release date.
An author can do many things with
a blog and/or a website to begin their promotion a long time before
their book is released. Getting readers involved in the creation of
your book will begin to build your fan base and they will be eager to
get their hands on your book when it is released.
Ideally,
you should start your marketing plan before you write chapter two of
your book. It can be even earlier, depending on the story. With the
large publishers you have a limited window to promote your books. But,
small publishers and e-publishers give you the option of having your
book available for a longer time. This is something to consider when
you're researching publishers.
Excerpt from Book Promo 101 - Learn the
Basics of Book Promotion
Chapter Two - Is It Ever Too Early To Start Promoting
by Nikki Leigh - Author & Publicist
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More Promotional Opportunities
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Web site and Promotion Service
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Shri Henkel and S&C Consulting are available to help if you need a web site or promotional advice. Click here to check them out.
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Location! Location! Location!
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You can list your books by location at this web site designed to help readers find interesting places to read about:
http://www.bibliotravel.com/index.php">
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Getting Your Book Reviewed?
A new page of advice on sending out
review copies has been added to the publicity section on the Authors Info pages.
Click here, to read it.
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Read A Free
e-book of the Month
The Agony Column
By
Earl Derr Biggers
While traveling to London, a young American writer
becomes smitten when he overhears a young lady say she is
addicted to reading the personal ads, knowin in London as
the "agony columns."
He then tries to attract her by writing a series of letters and
publishing them in the column he knows she reads.
ISBN 1-59431-333-4
Romance/Suspense/Mystery
Media: PDF, RTF, HTML)
Cover Art/Fanny
Glass
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from our Bonus Pages
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