Sarah Zettel writes that BookViewCafe.com is now offering ebooks. Following their successful website launch (see this article late last year, members of BookViewCafe are now releasing select titles of their work as ebooks. Previously most of the bookviewcafe offerings have been in the form of short stories or serialized, Internet-only novels. “We received so many requests for downloadable versions of our work, we thought we’d better offer some ebooks,” said Sue Lange, publicist for the site. “The move should prove to be pretty popular. People were purchasing ebooks as soon as we opened up the shop.”
Zettel and Maya Kathryn Bohnhoff launched the first ebooks this week. Other BVC authors scheduled to join in include Brenda Clough, Laura Anne Gilman, Anne Harris, Phyllis Irene Radford, and Vonda McIntyre.
The books will be available at the BookViewCafe site, as well as at Flycon 20090, an upcoming “online science fiction convention”, where BVC will have space in the dealer’s room and members will be participating in panels and author chats.
Flycon will be an online convention planned to have activities during the peak hours of every time zone. It will begin midnight, Friday 13 March 2009, in Australia and “roll with the sun. We are looking for panelists, authors and editors and agents to host discussions, podcasts as readings, volunteers, and for people to spread the word through the blogoshpere. We will be having a couple of sites host forum and chat space, with everything co-ordinated through this Live Journal community with rss feeds, updates, and eventual archiving. We will be running IRCs as well as bulletin boards, so that every time zone is covered.”