Bookhabit gives published and unpublished writers a conduit to the reading world, and gives readers a place to explore. Writers can easily upload their books, and readers can find books about niche or specialist subjects that a mainstream publisher couldn’t promote profitably.
Bookhabit Stats Nov 2008
1,567,042 page views
12,555 first chapter downloads
Readers can download the first chapter for free. The price of a book starts at USD2.50 and increases with its popularity, as indicated by the number of buyers. It is free for writers to post books on the site, and they receive 40% of the sale price – which compares well with the 5% to 12% writers receive on the shelf price of their books sold by retail book stores.
As a reader you can study the reviews of others to help you choose, and download an eBook or audioBook to read anywhere, any time. As a writer you can use readers' feedback to understand how your readers have interpreted and responded to your words.
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Podcasts
What On Earth Is A Crypto Zoologist? Every culture has tales of hidden or mythical creatures, legends that grow beyond the size of the creatures they portray. Bigfoot, The Loch Ness Monster - stories are passed down through the generations, and youngsters grow up with imaginings ... more
5 Books In Only 2 Years - How Pat Does It! This podcast has been sent to us by Pat Whitaker. The podcast is a radio interview he had with Coast Access Radio for their “Focus On Arts” show in July 2008. The interviewer is Janet Secker. (http://www.coastaccessradio.org.nz)
Pat Whi ... more
The Poet in the Three Piece Suit Calvin Daniel has seen a lot in his 68 years, and most of it while dressed in an Army uniform or a three piece suit (the suit he has even worn to the company picnic). Two tours of Vietnam and a life lived loving nature and God have taught him ... more
Charlie Wellman Twelve year-old orphan Chaim Walkowitz arrives in New Zealand from Europe in 1946 and designates the day of his arrival as the date he was born again. He changes his name to Charlie Wellman, rejects his heritage and the malevolent world beyond these distant ... more
There's No Room For Jugglers In My Circus Here is a selection of reviews and articles posted about There’s No Juggler in My Circus by Jason Cook
Leaving the devil behind
Feature film to chart former addict’s life – Borehamwood Times 23/5/08
www.borehamwoodtimes.co.uk
The life ... more
The Pride And The Sorrow The Bookhabit Show talks to Matt Fullerty, author of The Pride and the Sorrow, the winner of the Bookhabit Unpublished Competition. The international competition received nearly 300 unpublished books from authors vying for the $5000 prize. Fullerty i ... more
Souled You run into an awful lot of talented people at comic conventions. It's almost daunting, to be honest. But I'm someone who really gets charged up when I'm around truly creative people. It's why I enjoy working in webcomics. And it's why I'm so happy ... more