{"id":3615,"date":"2009-10-31T00:00:40","date_gmt":"2009-10-31T05:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=3615"},"modified":"2009-10-31T11:19:28","modified_gmt":"2009-10-31T16:19:28","slug":"horror-author-terrifies-publishers-this-halloween-with-fair-e-book-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=3615","title":{"rendered":"HORROR AUTHOR TERRIFIES PUBLISHERS THIS HALLOWEEN WITH FAIR eBOOK PRICES!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This one&#8217;s fun for the end of October&#8230; I just put up the whole press release because I like his thinking, <em>yah<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p><strong>There&#8217;s a contest for a FREE SONY eBOOK READER too! Here&#8217;s the <a title=\"Free eBook Reader\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bentsteeple.com\" target=\"_self\">link<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>TORONTO, ONTARIO &#8211; (Oct. 31\/09) Horror author <strong><a title=\"Horror Author\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gwellstaylor.com\" target=\"_self\">G. Wells Taylor<\/a><\/strong> hopes to shake things up in the exploding eBook marketplace by offering his list of full length novels for <strong>$1.99<\/strong> each to celebrate the Halloween release of his new novel <a title=\"Bent Steeple - A Novel\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bentsteeple.com\" target=\"_self\"><strong>BENT STEEPLE<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bentsteeple.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3619\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"bent_steeplet_cover_6x9_front_4_5_low_res\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/bent_steeplet_cover_6x9_front_4_5_low_res-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"bent_steeplet_cover_6x9_front_4_5_low_res\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/bent_steeplet_cover_6x9_front_4_5_low_res-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/bent_steeplet_cover_6x9_front_4_5_low_res.jpg 216w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>And it isn&#8217;t just a promotion. &#8220;I&#8217;m selling content here. There&#8217;s a royalty to cover and a few expenses but we&#8217;re not paying for printing and shipping. $1.99 for an eBook is fair.&#8221; The Indie writer&#8217;s decade online laid the groundwork for creating a user-friendly web presence and platform for his Reader-direct pricing. &#8220;The old publishers wanted the status quo to continue because they had all the money and control, but the &#8216;status quo&#8217; didn&#8217;t feed many writers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He describes his horror novel as a disturbing tale that would scare the glitter off a modern vampire\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s cheeks. <strong>BENT STEEPLE<\/strong> has teeth.<\/p>\n<p>Something is in the trees. In <strong>BENT STEEPLE<\/strong> a blizzard isolates a remote northern village that was stricken by a fatal and unknown disease thirty years before. Some survivors believed a vampire stalked the frozen forests, but their suspicions sounded like insanity. Now their secrets have drawn them back for vengeance, salvation and for blood.<\/p>\n<p>On top of the new book and low prices, visitors to <strong><a title=\"eReader Contest...\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bentsteeple.com\" target=\"_self\">BentSteeple.com<\/a><\/strong> get a chance to win a<strong> SONY eBOOK READER TOUCH EDITION<\/strong> with BENT STEEPLE installed. Visit <a title=\"Bent Steeple eBook Contest\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bentsteeple.com\" target=\"_self\">BentSteeple.com<\/a> for your chance to win. (No purchase necessary. See web site for contest details.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one&#8217;s fun for the end of October&#8230; I just put up the whole press release because I like his thinking, yah? There&#8217;s a contest for a FREE SONY eBOOK READER too! Here&#8217;s the link. TORONTO, ONTARIO &#8211; (Oct. 31\/09) Horror author G. Wells Taylor hopes to shake things up in the exploding eBook marketplace &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=3615\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5,8,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3615"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3615"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3631,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3615\/revisions\/3631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}