Browsing the blog archives for February, 2009

Lulu contest rewards the self-published author for marketing their own work

There is a lot to love in the new contest Lulu just announced. Instead of judging a contest based on content (which never fully allows for huge variety of POD books out there) this contest is based solely on how well your book sells.
The book that sells the most copies in March gets $1500! Second [...]

The Auctiva/eBay affiliate program conspiracy theory

In what is definitely a first on this blog, my coverage of the Auctiva scare this week generated a anonymous tipster who told me that I forgot to mention the biggest problem with Auctiva. To be completely honest, I have never heard of the point this tipster brought up so I cannot say for sure [...]

When ScribeFire QuickAds says “revamping” do they mean done for good?

I have written about ScribeFire QuickAds before on this blog. I am a big fan of ScribeFire itself but their attempt to monetize the plugin with the QuickAds advertising service has thus far left me underwhelemed.
While they are trying to put a good spin on it, I cannot help but feel like this email [...]

The official word on the Auctiva virus scare

Auctiva sent this email out on the evening of Monday, February 23rd: