The Book Cove

Part III: Letter to my Earlier Self about #Preorders By Sally Ember, EdD This is Letter Three of Four of my "open letter to my earlier self" series that first appears on The Book Cove Reviews , http://www.thebookcove.com , late November - December, 2014 on consecutive Mondays.  Letter One will appear on my site, http://www.sallyember.com/blog , on 3/26/15, Letter Two on 4/4/15; Letter Four re-posts on April 18, 2015 on consecutive Mondays as well. I published my first ebook in December, 2013, and my second in June, 2014. My third will release late in the Spring of 2015. This is a letter to describe all that I wish I had known about Pre-Orders before my first ebook went into Pre-orders in November, 2013, and what I used somewhat for Volume II's Pre-order period in the Spring of 2014 before its release in June of 2014. I will certainly build upon these experiences for subsequent releases of Volumes of The Spanners Series in preparation for their Pre-Or...

Apple recently lost a lawsuit that claimed they were teaming up with certain publishers to push the $9.99 eBook limit that is set on Amazon and sell the books instead for $12+. Apple's reasoning being that eBooks are the same as bound books and should ultimately be valued the same. I buy eBooks for 2 reasons: they're cheap and they're at my fingertips. Bound books will always be my true love. I'm one of those that enjoys the feeling and smell of a good book. To me, eBooks lack value when compared with bound books for the following reasons: 1.) You're never quite sure of the quality until you buy it (publishing, editing, formatting etc.). Granted, you can return it - but it's considered bad practice and Amazon will not allow you to return any more books after you hit a certain mark. (Rumor is 30ish - and if you read a lot , you can hit that mark pretty easily) 2.) You can't loan them as easily to anyone. Granted, some eBooks have the loan feature, bu...