A Little Kobo Nonsense
For those of you wondering what that strange post I wrote about Daddy Looses His Big Kobo Surprise was all about, I refer to a conversation on Twitter about the whole kobogeddon incident (just head over to Twitter and search for #kobogeddon to get caught up). As you may have guessed, the conversation turned to the silly side, with several of us, including indie writers @RayneHall, @WallaceCass, and @GKMasterson suggesting different titles for stories that might get us kicked off of Kobo. Naturally, all of them had to include the word Daddy, since the offending erotic story that sparked the entire Kobo/WH Smith incident did.
And naturally, because that's who I am, I agreed that we should take it farther than talking. We should actually write these stories, throw them together in a book, slap a salacious cover on the front, and list it on Kobo as a joke, with a price of $666.
Now for those of you who missed all the craziness of this past week, here's a recap of the Kobo-WH Smith incident that spawned this exercise.
For anyone interested in participating in what amounts to a tongue-in-cheek indie protest, I'm collecting stories to include in the anthology. We want to do this quickly, striking while the iron is hot, so to speak, which means having something ready in the next couple of days. The only criteria is, regardless of genre, any offensive words should be substituted with "kobo."
I can pull it together by Friday night and have it uploaded to Kobo on Saturday. Then we'll sit back and see what their gateway does with it. I'm sure their keyword search will explode with all the Daddy references. In any case, it will bring further attention to the indie cause.
And speaking of that, as a further protest against Kobo's knee-jerk reaction to indie writers, rather than remove your books at this time, we are asking that you increase your books' prices to an exorbitant level, say, several hundred dollars or pounds, thus making Kobo the most expensive book retailer on the web.
Remember, everyone, the pen is mightier than the sword.
And naturally, because that's who I am, I agreed that we should take it farther than talking. We should actually write these stories, throw them together in a book, slap a salacious cover on the front, and list it on Kobo as a joke, with a price of $666.
Now for those of you who missed all the craziness of this past week, here's a recap of the Kobo-WH Smith incident that spawned this exercise.
For anyone interested in participating in what amounts to a tongue-in-cheek indie protest, I'm collecting stories to include in the anthology. We want to do this quickly, striking while the iron is hot, so to speak, which means having something ready in the next couple of days. The only criteria is, regardless of genre, any offensive words should be substituted with "kobo."
I can pull it together by Friday night and have it uploaded to Kobo on Saturday. Then we'll sit back and see what their gateway does with it. I'm sure their keyword search will explode with all the Daddy references. In any case, it will bring further attention to the indie cause.
And speaking of that, as a further protest against Kobo's knee-jerk reaction to indie writers, rather than remove your books at this time, we are asking that you increase your books' prices to an exorbitant level, say, several hundred dollars or pounds, thus making Kobo the most expensive book retailer on the web.
Remember, everyone, the pen is mightier than the sword.
Email stories to me at ajchurch01@gmail.com
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