Comments on: REVIEW: Ebook Weekly: Wings Epress, Inc

By: mary edwards

mary edwards — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 17:01:37 +0000

I would like to say that I was perturbed by negitive words about wings-press. wings epress. No longer. I have a manuscript accepted by them. I find them to be thorough and prompt to answer your emailed questions. the editor asigned to my novel, Angel’s Rest, is busy working with me and doing a fine job, as the artist has done on a very good cover.

By: Jayne

Jayne — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:54:18 +0000

Missy, here's a link to his blog.

By: Missy O

Missy O — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:21:15 +0000

Oh. This is your Realtor friend in Palm Springs! I found the perfect place for you two! (Okay people, we worked together several years ago and I’ve since moved. I’m not as lame as I may come across.)

By: Missy O

Missy O — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:19:27 +0000

Sorry to post here. I’m not the technie guy like TP. But, I’ve been searching for Teddy Pig and I am no longer able to bring up his blog. I must have screwed something up. Yeah, I’m a PC ding-dong.

I have a question or two for TP, but I no longer have his contact information. So TP, please send me an email, or better yet, give me a call. I don’t want your message to get lost in my neather reaches of blocked email messages because I wouldn’t know how to retrieve that data.

By: Teddy Pig

Teddy Pig — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 15:47:32 +0000

Well tell them that…

Boy do I have a few ideas but yeah I worry that they want to be too straight laced when on-line is all about the edge baby.

By: Barbara B.

Barbara B. — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 15:44:33 +0000

Yes, Samhain currently has the best looking website. I absolutely fell in love with their Coming Soon page. But even though Fictionwise is not a big visual thrill, it still fills quite a lot of my reading needs. I like that I can buy books from many very different epubs from them. For instance, I buy a lot of the books published by Torquere Press from Fictionwise. I hate the Torquere Press website. It’s very annoying, but I am hooked on Sean Michael’s books so Fictionwise to the rescue. The only complaint that I have about Samhain is that their romances tend towards the “sweet”. Not as in no sex but as in a bit bland. I like that but I also like edgier stories that they usually don’t publish.

By: Sybil

Sybil — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 21:09:24 +0000

Regarding EC… I have always had a great response from them. And I know they try to get the word out to get reviews. But most of the review sites aren’t ones I frequent. Then again I really don’t frequent review sites.

As to WHY the coming soon pages has no coming soon blurb… I have no clue. But that is the stupid thing ever, ever. I know the song was paypal was at fault but I have bought books from Samhain and LSB with no issues.

Those are really the three sites I bought E-Books from and hands down, Samhain has the best site. Glad to see the series back!

By: Jane

Jane — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 15:17:29 +0000

Scott Pendergrast is one of the co-owners of Fictionwise. Here is his email:

scott at fictionwise.com
scott at mindwise.com

His email is the one we should bombard.

By: Keishon

Keishon — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 15:14:44 +0000

Is today a holiday or something? I just emailed the PR at Fictionwise. We should all bombard his email box.

By: Jane

Jane — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 15:07:05 +0000

Or how about a week late, that’s my greatest pet peeve. Come on Fictionwise, change your release date to match the publishers. Can it really be so hard?

By: Keishon

Keishon — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 15:05:35 +0000

My problem with Fictionwise is the time that they decide to display their new ebooks! It’s after 9am and no new books yet. Annoying. When do they display their new ebooks? I find this rather ridiculous. Other ebookstores make their new books available at midnight but not Fictionwise.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 15:04:46 +0000

New Concepts’ covers are so small they are well below 100 Kb in size. Even for dialup, that should be manageable. EC and Samhain provides the covers with the HTML format, do you find it affects the download speed terribly?

By: TeddyPig

TeddyPig — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 14:40:32 +0000

I find Fictionwise flat and not as well presented as Samhain.

That slick glossy approach that rocks when making a buying decision.

I want to buy just because they feel the book is special… Notice how big and well done the covers are? The write ups are nicely worked.

Great ideas! pretty pretty pretty.

Fictionwise is like K-Mart they are highly functional but not as proud of showing the covers and making them stand out.

By: TeddyPig

TeddyPig — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 14:11:43 +0000

Oh with the whole EC/paypal issue I have bought twice from them several times.

By: Barbara B.

Barbara B. — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 13:58:08 +0000

TeddyPig makes some good points about Ellora’s Cave. They don’t seem interested in staying current and making the customer experience easier and better. Why bother having a Coming Soon page without blurbs and release dates? It’s as if they’re unaware that they have competition and think their position and readership is unassailable. You don’t stay at the top if you take your customer for granted.

I wrote to Ellora’s Cave last year asking if they intended to install more reader friendly features such as a bookshelf and a safeguard against purchasing a book twice. Call me a dummy but I’ve bought quite a few of their books twice and one three times. I binge buy in large quantities and sometimes buy what I already own. I was told of course that they have no such plans. I think that’s pretty crappy and it’s one of the many reasons I don’t buy much from EC anymore. I shop mainly at Fictionwise because they do offer the features I need.

By: TeddyPig

TeddyPig — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 13:49:56 +0000

Oh, I may seem to love Samhain but those people need to integrate that online shop part into their website.

It works fine but the dichotomy is aburpt, disturbing and bad for business.

Oh and they need to…

STOP IT WITH THE SERVER DOWN TIMES DUE TO THEIR LACK OF TRACKING BANDWIDTH USE! Damn sys admins!

Yes dears I notice these things, you can hire me but I make bank at Wells…

By: Keishon

Keishon — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 13:43:01 +0000

I like to look at bestseller lists and EC doesn’t even have that either. Sucks. I agree, they don’t know how to promote themselves online. Also, where are the major writers? Where are their new, full length releases vs. these quickies?

By: TeddyPig

TeddyPig — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 13:41:19 +0000

You would think with Samhain kicking butt and taking names in online publishing EC would step up and change their web site to reflect the new functionality available on-line. Make things more interactive with the customer.

Right now they seem more afraid of feedback and reviews than actively seeking new customers.

We have set out to change out our whole banking site once a year through progressive and agressive upgrades and QA and feedback loops.

Customers see you as hard at work making yourself better and more usable.

EC has got to be making buck, there is no excuse.

By: Jane

Jane — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 13:30:27 +0000

Oh, TP, the last one is super frustrating. What is the point, as you say, of having a password without actually having the account save any information. I can’t say why we haven’t done EC yet. I am sure we will soon.

By: TeddyPig

TeddyPig — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 13:07:57 +0000

Oh and EC why do you make me put in a password and yet have no account available for me to check my account history or purchases or well… why a password?

Got sex? more like Got Brain?