You can see my Goodreads author profile here: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1353250.Mark_Lord Not sure if it will help much, but was quite fun to set-up! It’s interesting to see that Goodreads are also allowing you to now sell eBooks via their website. I wonder how many sales they are getting though? Most of mine so far seem to be [...]

You can now download a free copy of my short story The Easy River to Success for free from either Feedbooks or Smashwords. Set in a fantasy world of dark magic, Benetus, the King’s chancellor, fears the return of a rival he had thought banished from court. Benetus turns to the help of demons to [...]

I’m pleased to announce that the first issue of the historical fiction and alternate history magazine Alt Hist has now been published. See below for details. The magazine is edited by yours truly! You can either buy a print copy via Lulu, or an ebook via Smashwords. As the ebook retailers get hold of it you will [...]

Some of the most interesting blog and website posts that I came across this week: Cory Doctorow is serializing a short story Martian Chronicles, that he is working on – quite interesting to do this with a WIP. Scott Marlowe explains how to self-publish your own e-book – part 1 of a series of posts. [...]

Then they will need to come down in price and also be available in more user-friendly readers, such as the Apple Tablet. This is according to a survey of UK publishers and booksellers carried out by The Bookseller. I think this has got to be a bare minimum before e-books can seriously gain any penetration [...]

The fuss being made by trade publishers over e-books should really be put in perspective: Over the next four years, Greco predicts these drivers, among others, will result in the US market for professional and scholarly ebooks growing by 94% to $2.60 billion. During the same period, he forecasts that the trade book sector will [...]

Random House announced that they had increased their e-book sales  400% in the first half of 2009 thanks to e-book sales of Dan Brown‘s The Lost Symbol. However, despite this made up only 5% of book sales – more than for most books, but less than the hype surrounding e-books would suggest. Meanwhile in the [...]

My local library service, Hertfordshire Libraries, has recently begun a service that allows users to download free e-books and audio books. I was quite startled and pleasantly surprised that they are doing this. For audio books it’s great, because these usually cost £2-3 to rent out for three weeks. I’m not as bothered about e-books, [...]