After a lot of planning, I'm excited to introduce you to an upcoming campaign to bring readers and authors together in a way that celebrates the success of the Kindle e-book platform.
To help me with this campaign, I have brought on two co-sponsors, both known as experts in the e-book publishing world:
Steven Lewis: Writer, journalist, creator of the Kindle Self Publishing site, and author of Kindle Formatting.
Piotr Kowalczyk: Creator of the informative blog, Password Incorrect and eBook Friendly, a site that highlights e-book authors.
Starting in June, we will highlight at least one Kindle e-book in a post each Sunday. The books will be chosen from submissions made by their authors. For one week, readers will have a chance to leave a comment on that post and at the end of the week, one commenter will be chosen at random to receive a free Kindle copy of that book.
We will also create an archive that lists each book chosen to participate in this campaign.
If you are a reader who wants to win a free Kindle book, all you have to do is wait until the campaign starts in June and then leave a comment on the posts with books you are interested in winning.
If you are an author who is looking for a little extra exposure for your Kindle book, then submit your book for inclusion in the campaign. There is no fee to enter your book. All you have to do is fill out the form on the Sunday Kindle Book Give Away official entry page. All rules for participating are given on that page.
I know that there are a lot of other great e-book formats out there and we may be expanding to other formats in later giveaways, but for now, we're celebrating the Kindle.
I'm excited about the new Sunday Kindle Book Giveaway and I hope that it helps a lot of authors and readers discover each other.
**Special thanks to Piotr Kowalczyk for creating the awesome logo for our Sunday Giveaway.
-------- Tony Eldridge is the author of The Samson Effect, an action/adventure novel that Clive Cussler calls a "first rate thriller brimming with intrigue and adventure." He is also the author of the Twitter marketing book, Conducting Effective Twitter Contests.
6 comments:
This is a really exciting idea, which has the power to bring authors and readers closer together.
The fact that readers will leave comments in order to take part in a giveaway could bring interesting thoughts about books they would like to receive.
Thanks, Tony, for making me a part of the promotion. I'm honored to give you support.
Piotr,
I'm excited as well. This is going to be a fun promotion for readers and authors. In part, I took my inspiration from your eBook Friendly site. I'd encourage all book lovers to visit what you've done with it.
With you and Steven as cosponsors, I hope that we can really help Kindle authors and readers connect.
Hi Tony .. wonderful idea you've all created - I've let an author from SA know and I hope she'll come over .. I obviously have to get a Kindle or reader soon!
Cheers Hilary
Great idea! Hilary, thanks so much for letting me know about this. do follow Tony's blog, but missed this in the launch madness that is currently dominating my on-line time! Will definitely enter!
Judy Croome, South Africa
Oh dear! I see I don't qualify yet - I only have one Amazon review (a 5*!) at the moment and I need 5 reviews, with an average of 3 stars. Well, I'll keep watch and hope that this is still running by the time I get the required number of Amazon reviews.
Judy Croome, South Africa
This is excellent Tony.... I just got my Kindle and can't wait to try and win some books! :)
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