RITA TOEWS AND READ AN EBOOK WEEK

There's a fascinating story and interview by Smashwords CEO Mark Coker in today's Huffington Post on Rita Toews, founder of Read an Ebook Week. http://tinyurl.com/yz2nz4r.

BeWrite Books has always supported the event, but this year ... well, what a heck of a week for the BeWrite.net website to be down for reconstruction!

Thankfully, Smashwords.com -- one of our leading ebook outlets -- has allowed us to get around this by using our publisher's page there to offer, this year, 'BeWrite Books for Haiti'.

From March 7-13 just visit our Smashwords profile  and scroll down through our catalogue for twenty-five Pay-What-You-Want titles. All income will go to the Red Cross effort on the earthquake-devastated island.

Cheers. Neil

BEWRITE EBOOKS FOR HAITI AS OF SUNDAY

March 7 thru March 13 is international Read an Ebook Week. So starting on Sunday and for the duration, BeWrite Books is offering TWENTY-FIVE of its eighty-plus Smashwords Edition ebook titles (usually $9.00) on a pay-what-you-like basis.

This means you don’t have to lay out a red cent to download your chosen ebook/s in any of nine digital formats.

But if you can afford even as little as a single dollar, a pound or a Euro, please do stump up … because every penny BeWrite Books raises from this offer will be sent to the International Red Cross to help out with their work in earthquake-devastated Haiti.

Simply visit the the BeWrite Books bookstore at www.smashwords.com/profile/view/bewrite

Cheers. Neil

READ AN EBOOK, HELP HAITI

Read an Ebook Week starts on Sunday, March 7. Usually we join in the fun and games of promoting ebook reading in general and BB authors' books in particular with give-aways and special deals. This year, though, there's a hitch because the http://www.bewrite.net/ site is temporarily down for major construction and we can't fix anything from our own store.

So we had a wee idea ...

A whole bunch of generous authors at our admirable retail partners Smashwords.com in the US have clubbed their time and work together to compile a shorts anthology called 'One Hundred Stories for Haiti'. The ebook's been put together in record time (an excellent job, too) and is on sale everywhere with all proceeds to help in Haiti, where everything but pain, misery, hunger and devastating loss is in short supply.

What we at BeWrite Books thought was this: We have more than eighty titles so far running at $9.00 a pop with Smashwords, but there is a promotional facility in the Smashwords store to offer books either free or on a 'pay-what-you-like' basis. Raise your hand any BB author who'd object if we applied the 'pay-what-you-like' principle to some of our Smashwords edition ebooks for five days with anything paid by buyers going straight into Smashwords' Red Cross fund to help those whose lives are in turmoil after the quake?

Ah ... just as I thought. Not a single hand raised against the idea. Because we know you all personally, we had a feeling this would be something you'd support.

Watch this space and we'll let you know how it turns out.

Thanks, gang. Neil, Tony, Alex, Hugh and Sam