Smart Bitches Trashy Books along with Sony and Harlequin are offering 30 lucky readers from Canada and US the chance to test out some refurbished Sony ereaders. You’ll have the device for 60 days to try out and report back to them about it. Also Harlequin is offering a $25 gift certificate to all testers. In the end you can’t keep the device you will need to send it back, but for those who have never used one and are curious to try one out this might be perfect for you.

For all the details click here 

A few months ago to sign up for Google Alerts. For the most part they have been about my own blog, but today I got a great surprise. I was notified about a site talking about me and my book.

I’d like to send a shout out to Untreed Reads. They posted a nice little blog yesterday about Deadly Secrets with a link where his loyal readers can purchase a copy of the book. Click Here to see the post.

Thank You Untreed Reads!

Well it looks like BN is going to start selling Ebooks. They have purchased Fictionwise which has been in my opinion the pioneer of ebooks. Without them I don’t think the ebook industry would have grown to what it is today. Don’t get me wrong the industry would have grown but probably a lot slower.

The current owners got 15.7M from BN and will continue to manage the sites they had owned.

Congratulations to Fictionwise on this fabulous sale! Here’s hoping that small publishers don’t get lost in the mist.

A few blogs like Smart Bitches Trashy Books are talking/debating the cost of an ebook. It used to be the average cost of an ebook was $5-6 USD. Who set those prices? The pioneers of the ebook industry, the small publishers that’s who. Now that the big boys have seen the benefits and proof profit they want in on the action. Fine. But wait, they want in on their own terms and demand a higher price. What the heck?

Its true there is a cost to creating an ebook (the web security and software conversion cost), but it’s not as costly as that of printing the books. So why are the big boys charging readers the same price for an ebook as they would the print copy? For that matter why the heck are readers buying the books at those elevated price? Don’t they know they are being duped?

Personally I think long and hard before I buy a book that is more than $6. However I refuse to purchase an ebook that is sold for the same price as that of the print copy. No way in heck will I do that!