I thought it would be useful to have a hunt around the net to see what forums might be out there for writers of eBooks to meet and discuss things related to online publishing and allied matters.
So, full of hope off I went onto Google to see what I could find.....................
What I found were no end of sites that were primarily set up to sell particular services (editing and marketing your books) or specific software that was designed to help you get your books into suitable form to be uploaded to eBook sites, but remarkably few forums where you could meet other authors and discuss the specific problems of this form of publishing. Also, to add to my unhappiness, most of the forums I did find that sounded interesting were more or less moribund and the last posts being dated 2006 or even earlier!
To say I am surprised at this lack, would be to put it mildly, as there are lively forums out there for just about any human activity you could imagine! Anyone interested in a forum for ant breeding?
I shall shortly be moving this Blog to a Word Press version, (to be called eBookanoid) and shall definitely include a forum in it, as there is obviously room for a lively forum for us all to meet and discuss matters of mutual interest.
However, I did manage to find a couple that seemed lively and relevant and not too burdened with advertisements, and I shall put links to these at the end of this post.
Most of the more or less reasonable ones I came across seemed to be arranged more in the form of comments with longish threads rather than the normal forum format of listing the posts by title and subject, with all the replies attached so you can simply open a thread and follow it. Clumsy, but manageable, I suppose.
Should you be hunting for technical forums, all about software for online publishing or the legal side of it all, that you will find OK.
Obviously writing an eBook is exactly the same as writing any other book, it only changes when you set about making an eBook out of it, so I suppose the lack of eBook writing specific forums is not totally unexpected and obviously there are oodles of forums for "ordinary" writers to meet and talk - the better ones of these I shall shortly be looking at and reporting back on for your interest.
So, sadly I have to report that my hunt was pretty fruitless.
Anyhow, here are links to a few that did seem more or less likely to interest and be of help to you good folk.
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Obviously, if any of you know of a good forum that is specifically set up for eBook writers, do let us know about it, or even send me a review of it for me to post here (of course, as always, I shall credit you with writing it).
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