So, everyone I know in person has heard of the Kindle and the Nook. Nobody's heard of the Kobo (though it wouldn't surprise me if people on the forums have).
https://news.walmart.com/2018/08/22...s-including-an-audiobook-subscription-for-999
Walmart has inked a partnership with Kobo to sell readers and ebooks in the stores. In addition, I've discovered, you can make your e-books available through Overdrive--the service that public libraries use to buy e-books. I'd tried to get into Overdrive 2 years ago and was rejected. They prefer to work with publishing houses and not individuals unless they're big-name or have lots of titles.
This has the potential to be pretty big for indie authors. So, I've been converting all of my books to put on the Kobo indie publishing platform. I say re-converting, because every freaking site has a slightly different definition of what makes an acceptable epub file. And getting into overdrive requires a very stringent set of rules. So, I spent a good couple hours passing my epubs through the same validator Overdrive uses and tweaking until I got a clean bill of health.
Thought some of our other authors on the forum might be interested in knowing about it. The Kobo author site is: https://writinglife.kobobooks.com and I'd be happy to walk/talk someone through the necessary hoops you have to jump through to get your epub file Overdrive compatible.
https://news.walmart.com/2018/08/22...s-including-an-audiobook-subscription-for-999
Walmart has inked a partnership with Kobo to sell readers and ebooks in the stores. In addition, I've discovered, you can make your e-books available through Overdrive--the service that public libraries use to buy e-books. I'd tried to get into Overdrive 2 years ago and was rejected. They prefer to work with publishing houses and not individuals unless they're big-name or have lots of titles.
This has the potential to be pretty big for indie authors. So, I've been converting all of my books to put on the Kobo indie publishing platform. I say re-converting, because every freaking site has a slightly different definition of what makes an acceptable epub file. And getting into overdrive requires a very stringent set of rules. So, I spent a good couple hours passing my epubs through the same validator Overdrive uses and tweaking until I got a clean bill of health.
Thought some of our other authors on the forum might be interested in knowing about it. The Kobo author site is: https://writinglife.kobobooks.com and I'd be happy to walk/talk someone through the necessary hoops you have to jump through to get your epub file Overdrive compatible.
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