My books finally arrived on December 22nd, but the order was incomplete. I have been told that the remaining books will be shipped within 2 or 3 weeks. Missed out on a lot of holiday business.
Certainly hope the kinks are removed by spring.
I paid for the Grand E-book package around 12/10/10 and I haven't seen my book show up yet. I was wondering if anyone had any idea of how long it will take for it to start showing up. I was also wondering if anyone would know if it will have a unique ISBN or if the ISBN will be the same as the eBook I had activated by Publishamerica a while back. There are so many different e-readers and sites that cover e-books out there but so far my ebook isn't showing up anywhere. It seems from all the news about e-books lately that this is an area of low cost for the publisher and great potential for the writer. I would like to tap this resource as much as possible and it seems that Publishamerica would too since they really stand to make more from the book than I do. My book already exist on Publishamerica's website with a unique ISBN number and now it should start showing up soon (since I paid for the service) on Kindle and Google’s eBook but I hope that Publishamerica (considering it is far more profitable for them) will work to get my book in any of the other eBooks such as nook and the online eBook retailers that exist out there like they have the paperback version which is showing up on quite a few sites now. Oh well, thanks Publishamerica for getting my paperback book out there and I hope you have the power and ability to get my eBook out there as well, as it seems that there is far more potential for income for the both of us if you do...
Many years ago, a story was reported in the press about a professor whose life's work was mistakenly shredded instead of photocopied at local shop. The store's personnel had to laboriously tape the shreds (not cross-cut, at that time) back together. It was his ONLY copy.
FWIW, one of my PA author friends yesterday shared with the local writing group we both are in that she had signed the contract for e-book version of her PA book. She was looking forward to the royalties . . .
I mean she is satisfied with PA's performance vis a vis her book for the last three or four years. The e-book is a new thing for her (we shall see how that goes), but she has been promoting and selling her book since 2007. It is something of a niche book (a couple of niches, one by geography and another by ethnicity). Overpriced and of mediocre production quality, as usual with PA, and she has to do nearly all of the selling herself.