My recent Fictionwise experiences

I meant to blog about my amusing discoveries at Fictionwise the other day, but every time I sit down to write a blog post, someone invariably distracts me with a shiny object.

Anyway, I was shopping over at Fictionwise last Saturday and came up with a shopping list of books I must have. I spent too much money there, because it turns out that thanks to the Internet, my ability to impulse shop is hard to curb.

That, however, is not the point. The point is that I did a search of the books on Fictionwise from longest to shortest. As I’ve said, if I’m going to spend over $5 on an ebook, I want something I can sink my teeth into.

Anyway, what I discovered was that the longest title they sell on Fictionwise is an audio book which doesn’t interest me in the slightest. The third longest book they sell at Fictionwise is the Bible.

What, you may ask, is the second longest multi-format book on Fictionwise, and did I buy it?

The second longest book on Fictionwise is Tempering, which is the second book in the
Jarheads series by Sean Michael.

So, yes, Shannon bought some gay romance. She may even read it one of these days. If I do get around to reading that book, I, too, can participate in Man Love Monday, which has suddenly become a goal in life. *G*

The thing that startled me about my experience on Fictionwise was that it was happening while I was chatting up some blind friends of mine, exactly none of whom realized that they could buy easily accessible ebooks from there for reasonable prices. Which really burns my toast, because if I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times, blind people would be damn good customers for ebooks. We should really be being marketed to way more than we are.