If you write with the intention of publishing, and if you’re online much at all, you’ve probably come across Publetariat, a popular online community serving authors and publishers. Today the editor posted a public request for donations to keep the site afloat as she struggles with private medical and financial issues. She writes: “This morning [...]
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Worldreader gives 440 Kindles to young readers in Ghana
If you want to go into the weekend with an inspirational story, check out Worldreader’s recent blog updates about the 440 free Kindles and M-Edge cases it just handed out to kids in Ghana, Africa. From the blog: “After playing around with the buttons a bit, [the students] quickly understood the e-reader’s functionalities. They were [...]
Trading up? You can donate your used Kindle 2 to deployed military personnel
Earlier this year, Len Edgerly of The Kindle Chronicles partnered with Ken Clark to create a non-profit group called E-Books for Troops. Its purpose is fairly self-explanatory: to provide free ebooks, and devices on which to read them, to deployed U.S. military personnel. The first test-run of the organization involved sending two second-generation Kindles to [...]
Robin Sloan Publishes First Novel Directly To Readers For $1
Robin Sloan is a blogger and author who relied on readers, instead of a vanity press or traditional publisher, to help him publish his first novel.