It is now three years since I first conceived abook2read.com in the bath. I am delighted that we now have well over 70 Authors signed and 100 books on the site, plus around another 25 at various stages of publication. This has been a major learning curve right from the off-set, but I am proud of what has been created by the hard work of Ian, Anthony, Nicholas (Art Department) and our readers who will probably wish to remain anonymous.

The biggest revelation in recent weeks has been the inception of the Facebook group that was, I admit, a bit of an after-thought. We have 668 members after just 17 days and what is really interesting is that having been contacted by my old author friend, Boris Starling, the introduction into his group of friends has taken us into a world-wide network of Authors, other publishers, editors, retail book sites and general literary people. This is very encouraging and I feel it potentially could give the site the deserved boost it needs into a completely new market-place.

http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=118551254829944

The Literary competition is now well and truly under starter’s orders and with Sir Tim Rice joining our judging panel; I hope some publicity will be forthcoming in the next few weeks. Our Press Release goes out this week.

As I mentioned earlier we have a number of new books waiting in the wings that will be coming out in the next few weeks and I hope that our new authors will continue to bolster our listings.

Sales are still a bit weak, but there are signs that the authors who promote their books hard are getting some results, so please continue to get the word out and one little tip I have picked up this week; if you have a Facebook account use your book cover as your profile picture.

Thank you all for your continued support and I am more confident than ever that eBooks time is coming sooner than you think.

Torquil