fReado is the site that hosts books maintained in the BookBuzzr format. It includes author profiles, book details and opportunities for interaction among book-lovers. BookBuzzr, is the technology that allows the distribution of your book on your blog or website.
You will only be putting up an extract of your book (for readers to sample), not the whole book. This will allow potential readers to discover and “taste” your book. You are in total control of the pages (and the number of pages) that you want displayed.
Of course, you can and should inform your publishers about this, just to keep them in the loop. As you know, extracts are a critical part of the book marketing effort and publishers are aware of this, and hence typically have no objections. Further, the easy sharing option in BookBuzzr allows you to promote … Continue Reading
No. Under U.S. law, every written work is covered by a copyright. You own the copyright to a work by creating the work or otherwise acquiring the copyright to the work from the creator of the work. When you sign up for a fReado account, you agree to adhere to the fReado Terms of Service. In order to upload a work onto fReado in compliance with the Terms of Service, you must either (i) own the copyright to the work you are uploading or (ii) have authority from the copyright owner to upload the work and grant a license to … Continue Reading
It depends. A few authors such as Cory Doctorow (http://craphound.com/) have given away their entire books for free and claim that this has actually promoted sales of their physical books. There is probably a case for this since the universe of people who read online and the universe of people who prefer to read physical books are entirely different and the online readers help evangelize your book to the non-digital readers.
For most authors working within the confines of their publishing contracts, the below-mentioned quote from Morris Rosenthal (http://www.fonerbooks.com/market.htm) would be instructive:
“I had the full draft of my Print … Continue Reading
The required format is PDF format.
No problem. You can go to a site such as Zamzar (www.zamzar.com) which supports free, online file conversion and convert from any format to PDF. Please note that Zamzar is not affiliated with fReado in any way. But we’ve used the service and it’s quite useful.
Putting up your book into BookBuzzr format is quite simple. If you know how to share your videos and photos on Facebook or MySpace you know how to use BookBuzzr.
Yes. After uploading the book, you can define which pages can be shown. You can even define pages that are not continuous. For example, you can ask that pages 1 to 10 and pages 30 to 70 be shown. You can change the pages being displayed at any time. Further, talking about security, people who look at your book cannot copy the pages of your book as the book pages are converted into individual images and streamed like a YouTube video.
After uploading your book, you will be asked to provide information about your book. One of the fields here asks you to provide information about where you can buy the book. Add your buy links here along with name of store and price of book so your readers will have a number of options to choose from.
We have over 5000 authors & books on fReado.
