The Shared Desk #003: The Strategy for eBooks

Fresh from their WorldCon experience, Tee & Pip bring to The Shared Desk their first interview and introduce a new segment to the show. There is also talk of their next con appearance and what lies ahead for the Fall.

00:00 — Introduction

• Tee reflects on his days in radio…and when he needed to pee.
• Still free-forming it, and it’s WINNING!

01:24 — The Strategy with eBooks: What Tee & Pip Are Planning, and Why

• In Reno, the Agent Savant herself, Laurie McLean, challenges us to develop a digital strategy
• Pip is hardly a stranger to eBooks with Chasing the Bard and Digital Magic
• People thought the earthquake caused the damage at Washington Cathedral…
• The evolution of eBooks, starting with MOREVI’s EPPIe nomination
• Calling “Shenanigans!” on changes in contracts, sales reports, and pricing.
• The painful experience of reading eBooks (then again, it could have been the book I chose…)
• 9:56 — Pip’s calls Tee out (and since Tee said “You’re right…” he sleeps soundly.)
• Technology’s offerings for eBooks
• What really happens at Pip’s “Card Night”…
• eBooks from the authors’ point-of-view
• The appeal of a 99¢ short story
• The method within our eBook madness
• An iTunes approach to anthologies
• What is a 99-Penny Dreadful?
• Digital publishing — the new market for short stories and novellas?

29:01 — Seriously? Seriously.

• A new trend in authors marketing themselves as BESTSELLING AUTHORS
• When Scott Sigler called himself a “bestseller” before he hit the New York Times Bestseller List
• When authors abuse or cheapen the “Bestseller” title
• Why we don’t call ourselves “bestsellers” (even though we could)
• Other titles that authors throw around alongside “bestselling”
• Put up, or shut up!