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Post by Ted on Jun 6, 2012 10:07:10 GMT -8
The Smashwords Forum has a live chat system which could be used by authors for a "Meet The Author" type of promotion/marketing/Q&A between an author and readers or potential readers. Authors could choose a date for their Meet The Author, post it on the Calendar, promote it on their web site and social media sites, and hopefully interact online with readers of their works. Problems of chat system: Readers have to be a member to use chat system, although I could open it up to guests with the usual spamming and troll problems an open chat system provides. The free system I'm using has a limit I believe of about 10 members at one time, although I might be wrong. If an open chat system was used then I can imagine the 10 limit being overrun quickly by spammers and jammers. If the Meet The Author system proves popular then it would be necessary to upgrade to the next level costing $80US per year and allows unlimited concurrent users, however, being an author and a pensioner I cannot afford to pay for the upgrade myself. If enough members wanted to donate $1.00 every year to my paypal account then I would upgrade to whichever level between the $80 and the $175.00/year matches the available funds donated by members. Information on the chat system is available at this link... www.addonchat.com/features.html
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