Read an E-Book Week's Origins
History
Read an E-Book Week was first registered with Chase's Calendar of
Events in 2004. Chase's is a day by day directory of special days, weeks
and months used by event planners or anyone looking for a reason to
celebrate. By having the week officially recognized, e-book authors and
publishers acquired a certain extra "legitimacy" during that week to
promote the new technology of e-books. The public and media were
initially wary of e-books and many doors were closed to promotion. With
the week officially recognized by Chase's, authors reported they now had
access to television morning chat shows and were allowed to set up
library displays during the week-long event.
Purpose
Read an E-Book Week educates and informs the public about the
pleasures and advantages of reading electronically. Authors, publishers,
vendors, the media and readers world-wide are welcome to join in the
effort. We encourage you to promote electronic reading with any event.
These could include: public readings, library displays, reading
challenges, school visits, newspaper and blog articles, chat show
appearances, internet radio interviews, e-book give-ways, and banners on
your website.
Smashwords is one of the sponsors of
Read an E-Book Week. This is the 4th year they have taken part in this special event.
Smashwords is an ebook publishing and distribution platform for ebook
authors, publishers, agents and readers. They offer multi-format,
DRM-free ebooks, ready for immediate sampling and purchase, and readable
on any e-reading device.
For
readers,
Smashwords provides an
opportunity to discover new voices in all categories and genres of the
written word, both Fiction and Non-Fiction. Once you register, the site offers useful tools for
search, discovery and personal library-building.
At Smashwords, authors and publishers have complete control over the sampling, pricing and marketing of their written works. It is ideal for publishing novels, short fiction, poetry, personal
memoirs, monographs, non-fiction, research reports, essays, or other
written forms that haven’t even been invented yet. It's free to publish and distribute with Smashwords.
[information provided by Smashwords .com]
During
Read an E-Book Week, Smashwords authors offer their books at a discount of
up to 100% during the week of March 4th - 10th. The promotion begins at 12:01am (PST) on March 4th.
The participating authors will be featured on the
Home Page Catalog. A
special coupon code will allow purchasers to buy a book at the featured discount set by the author.
My book,
Mission Possible will be one of the featured e-books in the
Read an E-Book Week event. I have
discounted my book 100% (down from $3.99 to $0.00 = FREE) for the
entire week, starting March 4th.
You can visit my author page on Smashwords here:
D L McCarragher Author Page
Come support indie book authors and their works! Visit
Smashwords today - you just might just discover the next great novel, self-help book, or children's tale.
One benefit of buying a book on
Smashwords is you can "
choose" which E-book
format you would like to download (i.e. Epub, Mobi, Kindle, pdf, etc.).
With the variety of E-Readers available out there, you can enjoy reading your favorite book in no time. If you already have a Kindle, Nook, or i-Pad -
Smashwords has an E-book ready for download.
Remember -
Read an E-Book Week runs from March 4th - 10th. Get reading today!
Deborah is the
author of a Christian non-fiction book titled “Mission Possible”. It is written for women who love the Lord
Jesus, but their spouse doesn’t share their passion. It will encourage and challenge the reader to
embrace God’s promises for their spouse and future together. Visit
