While I was deciding whether or not I wanted to invest the time needed to get into something like that, I put a post up
on Kboards directing forum members to a survey.
The independent
KBoards forum (previously Kindleboards) is another useful place to look.
Quite a few posts on the indie author discussion site
KBoards Writers Cafe reflect a concern, even an obsession, with writing and publishing as fast as possible, for fear of failing to generate sustainable sales.
At this low point, I dug deep
in Kboards, especially one thread devoted to Scout experiences and requests for nominations.
Someone posted a thread
at Kboards about another author who has to resort to charging $ 15 to critique people's first 10 pages because she can't afford to pay her pet's medical bill.
Here's a discussion
from KBoards talking about what people like and dislike about Scrivener.
If you ever have questions or issues with a Nook book, then you should first take to forums
like KBoards and ask other authors before trying to contact support.
In today's post, I reply to a topic started on
Kboards about how to manage book rights and an authors» legacy.
I was sending emails to one of my publishers to explain what was basic knowledge to me (because
of KBoards) but esoteric to them, as it turned out.
Find out who other writer friends are using, or get involved in self - publishing forums or groups — such
as KBoards, or the Alliance of Independent Authors.
«I can't really think of anything I'm really hoping for,» said
KBoards member Speaker - To - Animals.
Dubbed Kindle Unlimited, the service was first spotted by
Kboards user MJAWare earlier this week.
All in all, if you aren't already
using kboards, then you have to check it out.
Based on author recommendations,
Kboards feedback, and my own research, I booked a number of other services.
Worryingly, there's a thread on
KBoards reporting that some people aren't seeing also - boughts on book pages right now.
I have changed all of the links in this post to point to the right section, but if any of the links are broken, try changing kindleboard —
> kboard in the URL, and please do let me know!
The
voluminous KBoards responses to Wendig's commentary have been far more mixed, and in some cases shrill.
In fact, it's so commonplace that there's an entire thread at
Kboards titled «BookBub Rejection Club,» where authors bemoan their ability to get accepted.
It was an idea that came to me while I was
browsing KBoards and writing my first fiction novel.
KBoards gives you a wonderful opportunity to digitally network with other authors and learn a great deal about the new and the old of indie authorship.
Welcome to
KBoards a community forum for Kindle Users and Authors, powered by Simple Machines ® Forum (SMF) software!
I just posted a short comment with similar numbers (including some extrapolations on pages / borrow read) on the thread
at Kboards, which will probably get shredded by all the Chicken Littles over there
I found my translator by word of mouth
from KBoards, from another translator who was fully booked (pun intended).
Someone
on KBoards called Mike Dennis's thread the «Most Depressing Thread of 2013.»
Someone on
KBoards asked a similar question, «What was your first year of publication like?»
«[I'd like] more tablet - like functionality but with e-ink,»
KBoards member J T. told Inverse.
KBoards user quadtronix also had some big ideas for changes, like dual, color displays that fold together like a real book.
Kindle users congregate on sites like KUForum and
KBoards.
There's definitely going to be a certain audience (probably a more self - pub savvy one) that pays attention to
Kboards and sees these kinds of surveys posted.
Update, 9/6/17: Playster posted further on
KBoards that they are «investigating the labeling thoroughly, using some of the examples in [the KBoards] thread, to establish exactly what's happening,» and asking for «patience.»
So I booked an ad, and when the invoice came, I replied and said that some of my friends on
Kboards had gotten a promo price of $ 30; could I get that courtesy as well?
Update, 9/5/17: Playster has posted in
the KBoards thread, saying that it is in «absolutely no way discriminating against LGBTQ + content.»
I speculated on one possibility toward the end of
this KBoards post, but I have no idea whether that's actually what happened.
Here's where
the Kboards forums came in handy.
Update, 9/2/17: Dan Wood, director of author relations at D2D, has chimed in on
the KBoards thread to say they're «working on» the problem.
Unfortunately, at least four
KBoards authors who attempted to distribute LGBT + themed books to Playster are reporting that those books were rejected, even as their non-LGBT + books were accepted.
, I pissed off a shit - ton of big - name authors on
Kboards, many with eager followings that were ready to jump on any perceived threat to their idols, whether real or imagined.