40k Book Club discussion

The publishing world is changing. We are a «native digital» publisher and we started exploring the book world with a collection of sophisticate short fiction and a selection of short-but-really-focused essays. (see the list)

More: we tried to shift the «role of the publisher» from «rights owner» to partner-in-profit with the authors. But still there is more room for innovation: think about the relation between the publisher and the reader, for example.

The digital landscape is fastly evolving and nobody has experience, so we all have to try and fail many times. «Fail. Fail often». says the savvy man.

So we are looking for our experiences (and our fails), trying to establish a form of win-win game with our readers.
To do this, by the way, first of all we need to establish a sort of initial relation with the readers, with you.

And we want to do it using our books. We will select 5 readers for each language (english, italian, portuguese) every month.
And we will give them our new ebooks for free, to get their feedback and to offer their reading experience to other readers.

A few rules:

* there is no obligation to review the book (you know: if you don't review it, it is a feedback as important as the review)

* there is no obligation to review positively the book. We are looking for feedbacks, not necessarily for good feedbacks.

If you want to participate simply apply posting here a comment(or asking your questions). October is just starting.

Yes, I'll take part - I do prefer to read in English.

@Sue: Nice :)
You got the first october "ticket" for our english versions :)
Please, choice the first ebook we can send to you :)

Ciao! What kind of feedback are you looking for? If we liked the story or didn't? The formatting? Editing? All of the above? :)

I find sometimes that there are fantastic books with a poor formatting, which is really annoying, especially in e-readers. Anyway, I'm digressing, I am Italian and usually read both in English and Italian. I'd love to participate.

Last question. How much time does one have to give the feedback?

Ciao Emanuela: general feedbacks are welcome. But, as we said, there's no obligation to give a feedback.

(We have a professional formatting, so -in case- the best feedback is about the story or the essay).

So, are you applying for english or italian?

Yes , I can apply to english, but it is so so ...and will take time....is it good for u?

Hey i can apply for portuguese too

This sounds really cool! Sign me up... I mean, if y'all are doing this for more than a month.

English!

40k wrote: "So, are you applying for english or italian?"

Italian, it seems English is covered :)

Let's try a recap:

English:

* Sue
* Curtney
[Still 3 slot free]

Italian:

* Emanuela
[Still 4 slot free]

Portuguese(Brazil):

* Anamaria
[Still 4 slot free]

Feel free to invite your friends :)

Giuseppe wrote: "@Sue: Nice :)
You got the first october "ticket" for our english versions :)
Please, choice the first ebook we can send to you :)"

Thank you! Where can I find them? By the way, I'll let anyone who wants to review my book have a copy (pdf) for free.
Sue

Plaudo all'iniziativa. Come autore e soprattutto come lettore. Spero che tutti i volontari, anche a letture ultimate, condividano lo stesso entusiasmo dei promotori e lascino una breve feedback sui libri letti.
Dario

@Sue: You can find the list here.

You can also add our Amazon Community here (by clicking on Add To My Communities)

We get to choose the book?!

It should be funny the reverse thing too: we read your profile and we propose you a book..

Anyway, if you have preferences, link here the title

I'm not choosy, I'll read anything, but Cardanica seems just my cup of tea. Or rather espresso. I'd rather read Italian authors in Italian, because translations irk me :)

Espresso, Emanuela? But with "Cardanica" don't expect sugar in your cup :-)
Dario

Mezzo cucchiaino, Dario? Ho un rapporto di amore/odio con le macchine, sono convinta che siano umorali, quindi la storia mi intriga molto :)

Grazie Emanuela, leggila a digiuno allora. Più che umorale, la macchina di "Cardanica" è un tantino perfida... Poi mi dici, vero? :-)

Non sarà peggio del mio computer a lavoro che si spegne e riavvia da solo ogni volta che mi allontano dalla scrivania? Non scherzo!

Grazie del consiglio, ti dirò sicuramente :)

Dai, cosa vuoi di più, riconosce il capo... :-)

Let's try to stay in topic: to start the game we need more readers...

ottima iniziativa! mi propongo come lettore. Pronto a giocare

Hi!
are Francesca, 40k community manager.

I see that many people are ready to play..but we still need other readers. So, invite your friends to play:)

@Puviani: are you applying for english,italian or portuguese?

Thanks everybody

italiano!

Grazie:)

Recap:

English:

* Sue
* Curtney
[Still 3 slot free]

Italian:

* Emanuela
* Puviani
[Still 3 slot free]

Portuguese(Brazil):

* Anamaria
[Still 4 slot free]

Feel free to invite your friends :)

Sounds great! I had a great experience with 40K. Why not? I can read in Italian and English!
Denise

Sounds great! Aplying for Portuguese!

English:

* Sue * Curtney

[Still 3 slot free]

Italian:

* Emanuela * Puviani * Denise

[Still 2 slot free]

Portuguese(Brazil):

* Anamaria * Gabriela

[Still 3 slot free]

Let's wait a little bit more :)

Close now :)
We will open a new thread in some minutes and we will assign the ebooks

The new thread is here

Added u 40 books... can u send it to me ok?

Done

Grazie, se vuoi sono della compagnia. Leggo preferibilmente in italiano. Ho già avuto il piacere di Cyborg e Cigno.

Emanuela, the october list is closed. You can apply for the november one (soon).

Ok, aspetto pazientemente il mio turno :-)))

I will do my review until the end of the month ok?

Can I apply for Dec or Jan list, English please