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Read an eBook Week 2005!

Have you read an ebook lately? If not, maybe it’s time to come into the 21st Century. Click here for the full scoop on Read an eBook Week 2007. Read my interview with Rita Toews .

It’s over for another year, but Read an eBook Week 2005 was a huge success with events staged around the world! Here’s just a few of them...

From U-Publish.com:

To celebrate Read an e-Book Week, we are offering a FREE download of "Steal this e-Book!" by Danny O. Snow, a  collection of articles about  electronic publishing that explains why the inherent power of e-Books remains strong,  in spite of early challenges bringing them into the mainstream of the book world:
http://www.u-publish.com/stealme

Fredericton Public Library

The Fredericton Public Library is celebrating Read an eBook Week with two nights of “ebook immersion. On Wednesday, March 9, the Library is sponsoring a discussion of ebooks (including a look at the controversial question: What was the first ebook?) followed by readings from local eauthors. On Friday, March 11, the Library is sponsoring a virtual tour of the world of ebooks in its computer lab. The tour will visit ebook publishers, authors, readers sites and much more...including a crash course on creating, publishing, distributing and marketing your own ebook.

CHSR Radio - UNB

On Tuesday, March 8, eauthor and radio host Joe Blades will feature a live interview with a character from an ebook on his show Ashes, Paper & Beans: Fredericton's Writing & Art Show

 

George Taylor

Computer whiz George Taylor reports that he will read an ebook during Read an eBook Week.

Christine R. Senter

Editor/publisher of The Prompt Writer newsletter, Christine R. Senter, will be reading “Wizard’s Bane” by Rick Cook during Read an eBook Week.
groups.yahoo.com/group/thepromptwriter

Cool Publications

Cool Publications is offering a 10% discount on every ebook purchase between March 6 - 12 to e-celebrate Read an eBook Week. Visit their site at www.coolpublications.com

Cornelia Amiri

For  Read An E-Book Week, on Sunday, March 6th, Celtic/Romance E-Book Author,  Cornelia Amiri will offer readings from her e-books Danger Is Sweet, The Fox Prince, and One Heart One Way at the North Texas Irish Festival in Dallas, Texas. She will also autograph diskettes of her Celtic/Romance e-books and pass out  flyers to educate people on the benefits of e-books. You can check out further  details about the event at www.ntif.og or www.CelticRomanceQueen.com

Southern Review

Noel L. Griese, editor of The Southern Review of Books is spreading the word about Read an eBook Week in the March issue.

Rats in the Slush Pile

In honor of Read an eBook Week, author Michael Allen is making his ebook On the Survival of Rats in the Slush Pile a free download at Kingsfield Publications. Allen demonstrates that success for writers and publishers is governed by chance to a far greater extent than is generally realised. In light of this, he outlines some practical strategies for writers, agents, and publishers.

Skippi from Slovakia

Skippi wrote to the eBook-Community forum: “We do not have any e-book business or servers promoting free texts. We have decided for the first time to stream on-line a public event in which distinguished national authors will read from their works. These excerpts, or the whole book, if the author/publisher will permit, will be then freely published on the Internet together with the video stream of the author reading from it.” 

On March 3, he wrote: “Readings were recorded yesterday, currently I am preparing a new site for them, making streams and composing e-books from the texts that were performed. The event went great, but the fact is, readings are in Slovak from the Slovak books. The site should be ready by next week and I will definitely let you know about it. 

The next readings are scheduled on the next Thursday but since wecannot stream live (no connectivity on site and I still haven’t found out how), that does not matter. 

So what I can provide you with is a link to the site when it will beready and a short description/report from the project in English, because I think it is an interesting idea for something that has not been done before.”

NOTE: Hey, Skippi...we’re all eager to know how this turns out. Good luck and best wishes from the ebook world.

Carrie Lynn Lyons

Carrie Lynn Lyons, author of Dream Pictures (coming soon from Mundania Press), will review an ebook in honor of Read an eBook Week.
home.earthlink.net/~jacey2000
http://home.earthlink.net/~clyons55
http://home.earthlink.net/~clyons555
www.writersandreadersnetwork.com

Phenogy Health Advisors Pte. Ltd in Singapore

Sufang writes: “To celebrate Read an eBook Week, Phenogy Health Advisors will be giving 4 months FREE personal email coaching with a single purchase of our health e-manual during this e-book  week. Discover how you can regain your health naturally in our 12-week complete health programme -- no pills, no surgery, no pain!.”
http://phenogy.com/ebw/index.htm

Project Gutenberg

Michael S. Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, has issued an initial draft of “A Brief History of Project Gutenberg” in honor of Read an eBook Week. Download it here in PDF format.

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