You're all much more than merely welcome, folks (and you should have your books by now, Anne, or at least when you wake up in the morning and open your emails). We're all pioneers together in this. It's all about promoting and ecouraging the ebook concept itself.
Thanks, by the way, to everyone who's responding before the 'official' start of RAEBW. I can see that being a period of 24-hours-a-day hard slog to keep up, so it's a great help to meet requests from pals here at Mobile Read early to lighten the load a tad during the week itself.
So far, the response has been quite amazing ... and darned encouraging. All authors and indie publishers stand to gain by the general spreading of the word. Your support is warmly appreciated. As is that of our own authors, who are solidly behind this wee move.
Thanks again and best wishes ... and the offer stands until March 13 to give all time zones a fair crack o' the whip. After that, I guess we'll accept even lame excuses for lateness. Promise you, though, we'll not leave anyone out. There are no strings attached.
If you think an email to us has gone astray at the
RAEBW@bewrite.net address, please feel free to drop me a line direct to my own address ntmarrATbewrite.net (use the @ sign of course). But so far the specific RAEBW-specific address seems to be working well. Partner Tony and I are nine-hours apart as the clock flies, so we're sharing the job pretty well 24x7.
Hoots. Neil, Tony, House Team and authors
PS: And special thanks to the the organisers of RAEBW itself, who've invited us as partners this year. Also to Kovid and Krittika Goyal at Calibre and their new 'Open Book' list of DRM-resisting publishers, where we're so well profiled. And, of course, to MobileRead itself for its continued concessions to my occasional wee promo ideas. RAEBW, Calibre and MR are now permanent live links from our bookstore and blog in appreciation and not a little admiration. N