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« Reply #100 on: September 12, 2009, 08:19:30 PM » |
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Sorry, mate.  And in the few minutes that I've been gone from the board, we got our 30th author. Thanks Ed Patterson |
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« Reply #101 on: September 13, 2009, 06:29:59 AM » |
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Good Morning all. Sunday brought a new author from the UK last night and two new troops.
Ed Patterson
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« Reply #102 on: September 13, 2009, 09:17:46 AM » |
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I did a guest blog which was just released on K. Oland's Books on the Knob, which you can view here: http://booksontheknob.blogspot.com/Books on the Knob is a wonderful Amazon Subscription Blog that every Kindle user should subscribe to. It's excellent. Edward C. Patterson |
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« Reply #103 on: September 13, 2009, 11:19:19 AM » |
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We now have 35 participating authors in Operations EBook Drop and I estimate that we have dropped over 700 EBook coupon on the troops in this first week.
Authors:
For you golden first 35 - look to your email. I have sent you a gift expressing my appreciation - a Free coupon for my novel The Jade Owl.
Thank and God Bless you,
Ed Patterson
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« Reply #105 on: September 13, 2009, 03:45:10 PM » |
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Great article, Holly!
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« Reply #106 on: September 13, 2009, 03:56:08 PM » |
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Nice article. I've caught up and e-mailed coupon codes to the new troops added during my mini-vacation over the weekend. This has the potential to become rather widespread, I am glad Smashwords is working on an automated process.
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« Reply #107 on: September 13, 2009, 04:00:31 PM » |
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Ed, I've been emailing PDF and MOBI files. Would it be better to send Smashword coupons instead?
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« Reply #108 on: September 13, 2009, 06:17:32 PM » |
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Jim:
Yes, because we have learned that any email address ending in .mil will have the suffix sriped from it. Also, with the coupon, you can easily track whether a troop has taken advantage of your Drop. I stopped emailing my 13 books, a big 4 MB file and only send the links and the coupon code.
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Ed Patterson
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« Reply #109 on: September 13, 2009, 06:26:37 PM » |
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Thanks, will do.
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« Reply #110 on: September 13, 2009, 07:00:10 PM » |
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We're pretty international in our author participant, now with UK, Canada and Australia auhors. Whoot!!!
Ed Patterson
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« Reply #111 on: September 13, 2009, 07:39:25 PM » |
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This is so great, Ed! I have received several email letters of thanks from soldiers. It's nice for me to be able to express my appreciation for the troops through this gift. I'm spreading the word about this awesome program. And, I'm glad to see so many authors participate  |
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« Reply #112 on: September 14, 2009, 04:22:26 AM » |
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Jim:
Yes, because we have learned that any email address ending in .mil will have the suffix sriped from it. Also, with the coupon, you can easily track whether a troop has taken advantage of your Drop. I stopped emailing my 13 books, a big 4 MB file and only send the links and the coupon code.
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What do you mean it'll have the suffix stripped from it? Which suffix? I've been (until now) sending Mobi files. Should I go back to the people I've sent to and provide a coupon, instead, or just start fresh with coupons with the next name that comes my way? |
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« Reply #113 on: September 14, 2009, 04:33:25 AM » |
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I'd like to know the answer, too, Kristen.
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« Reply #114 on: September 14, 2009, 05:04:41 AM » |
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The coupons are best. I learned about the .mil thing from the second troop on the project, who sent me a Army directive, whereby the file siffix is removes (the ,mobi or ,zip). He wanted me to identify the file types so he could restore the suffix and port the files. Nothing happened to the actual files. Since the 7th troop, I've been using the coupons exclusively. I don;t think you need to resend books, but using the coupons will make it easier on the troops. So far we have only 3 troops with .mil addresses.
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« Reply #115 on: September 14, 2009, 05:09:10 AM » |
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Okay, so it's a security thing. I've been sending the links along with a copy of the books, but I'll just send the links now.
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« Reply #116 on: September 14, 2009, 07:47:06 AM » |
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I'd like to participate Ed, but need to organize it with my publisher. They're not on Smashswords. I'm pretty sure I can get a .mobi file or PDF easily enough. Will that work? Sorry if this was posted somewhere else, I have gone through all of the posts.
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« Reply #117 on: September 14, 2009, 09:16:17 AM » |
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The best way is to get your publisher to get your books on Smashwords (the Barnes & Noble deal is good, if you're not detined for that platform). I have had a publisher contact me, and I've directed them to Smashwords and then asked them to direct the author back to me - and they are up and running. Files are fine also, but dicey now because of the military's security system with attachments. (There's always something). BTW, a big thanks to Kent Andrews for the write up on Scholarly Kitchen http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2009/09/14/operation-ebook-drop-indie-authors-helping-soldiers/Ed Patterson |
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« Reply #118 on: September 14, 2009, 11:04:25 AM » |
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It's a good thing you've done/doing, Ed. Kudos.
I know that my publisher is going the BnN route. But it seems to take a long time for books to get loaded in. It's been over a month wait so far for 24 Bones. I can do my indie work though!
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« Reply #119 on: September 14, 2009, 11:54:26 AM » |
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Very cool. If it's all right, I'll post the link to the smashwords blog on my Facebook page as I was formerly enlisted and have many friends (and relatives) in the service who are deployed right now. I'm sure they'll be thrilled! |
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« Reply #120 on: September 14, 2009, 12:45:10 PM » |
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I blogged about it. http://lkcampbell.blogspot.comThe responses that I've received from recipients of the books are priceless, and I'm saving every one of them. |
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« Reply #121 on: September 14, 2009, 12:46:17 PM » |
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Thanks all for the blogging.
Ed Patterson
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« Reply #123 on: September 14, 2009, 04:41:11 PM » |
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I blogged about it.
Your blog was super. Your whole website looks great too. |
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« Reply #124 on: September 15, 2009, 04:40:18 AM » |
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If you come across a blog announcement on the project, let me know. I'm sure I've only seen a fraction of it. Tweitter if you can.
Thanjs
Ed Patterson
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