Re: Ebook awards in general

Joseph, however well-intentioned the beginning of your off-list private email might have been, I won't answer it because it also contained six long paragraphs of hype about the Global Ebook Awards.
I don't want my email address to be added to that marketing machine's list.

In fact, for the first time since I joined this group, I suddenly felt an urge to switch to using my Hotmail address, which exists strictly to collect stuff I don't want to see in my other email box.

So... I adjusted my membership email addy accordingly. No more private emails from this group. I don't know how long I've been a member, but I do know this is the first time I've ever felt uncomfortable about answering a member's email.

If anyone here truly wants or needs to contact me, there's an email addy on my website.
It isn't clickable.
Some assembly required.
Ed
Ed Howdershelt - Abintra Press
Science Fiction & Semi-Fiction
http://www.AbintraPress.com

--- In [email protected], "Joseph" <joseph@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Ed,
> I wanted to let you know that we have posted a video which helps to
> spell out the benefits of entering our Global eBook Awards this year.
> I certainly understand all your reasons for NOT entering, but I want to
> make sure that you know all the reasons FOR entering.
> We're trying to do more than other eBook awards are currently doing but
> it doesn't make us better or in opposing competition. In fact, we list
> other eBook awards on our site and we encourage authors to use them for
> feedback and, if they win, some recognition.
> We're going to do a bit more each applicant by putting a page for each
> eBook with a link to that eBook's sales page to make it easier for
> people browsing our contest to buy immediately if they like your eBook
> based on what you have submitted with your application.
> Is it about marketing? Is it about prestige? Is it about feedback?
> Hopefully, it's all of that and more, but it's certainly not about just
> one aspect. There are benefits to all these things. You can't retire on
> prestige and you can't make a sale if your marketing is non-existent.
> You can't do what writers do well without someone helping you to do it
> better.
> Please take another look at our site now that we have added a video.
> You might like what you see and consider the investment worthwhile.
> How many referrals from our site to yours will make it worth it to you?
> We intend to send you as many as possible and we hope that if you enter
> that you will do the same...and ask them to comment on the page for your
> eBook because the judges will be reading it!!
> Check it out at http://awardsforebooks.com/apply/
> <http://awardsforebooks.com/apply/>
> Joseph DowdyDirector of AwardsGlobal eBook Awards
> 
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>




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