Aliefka Bijlsma was born in the Caribbean but has lived all over the world. She is an author and screenwriter who is also an e-publishing pioneer in Holland, where she now lives. Her most recent novel, The Consul General’s Wife, came out as a free e-book achieving 50,000 downloads, after being published conventionally. One critic …
Adventures in e-publishing Part Ten – interview with Aliefka Bijlsma Read More »
This adventure happened somewhere else. It’s a piece I wrote for the View From Here. Please click here to read it. Other adventures in e-Publishing are: One. A look at INSIDE ITALY By Michael Gregorio. Two. Interview with Lee Jackson. Three. Interview with Ian Hocking. Four. Interview with Kate Lyall Grant. Five. The Bridge that …
Adventures in e-publishing Part Nine – Self Publish and Be Damned Read More »
The symptoms of his madness were as follows: 1 He painted his room the colour of her eyes. This was not easy as her eyes were not one colour but a thousand. These thousand colours were not available on any Dulux Card so each one had to be specially mixed by the young man …
Got a nice trawl of responses to my readers’ survey on e-books. My thanks to everyone who took part. With 56% of the vote, the most popular e-reader by far was the Kindle. The Sony e-reader came second with 11%. (One respondent was vehemently opposed to the Kindle, on the grounds of software incompatibility. Kindle-fans …
Adventures in e-Publishing Part 8 – readers’ survey findings Read More »
I’ve been canvassing the views of authors and publishers involved in e-publishing. But I thought it was about time I heard from the people who really matter, the readers. So I’ve put together a short(ish) questionnaire. It’s really designed for people who have an e-reader of some kind, but I would also be interested in …
Adventures in e-Publishing Part Seven – have your say! Read More »