F Paul Wilson

I just backed my first Kickstarter, and I thought some of you might be interested as well. The project is a fully illustrated horror anthology, In the Dark, and it’s got some great names: Brian Keene, F Paul Wilson, Rachel Deering and many more. It’s 250 pages of spine-chilling goodness, with 20 original stories. They [...]

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Wilson just now — 11:30 a.m. on Feb. 10 — logged off ebookr.com where he found 133 e-book editions of almost everything he's written in almost every e-reader format. The site offers unlimited downloads for $14.95 a month. In effect, ebookr.com has declared itself F. Paul Wilson's publisher. One of many. The Internet is studded with looter sites that charge nada for downloads. (They do charge, however, for faster bit rates.) Wilson has been running a Google alert since May '08 and has found hundreds offering his work.

It seems every week I receive a press release or read a news article about a new e-book exclusivity agreement an author has struck with Amazon. This week, it was best-selling science fiction author F. Paul Wilson.

According to the press release I received from Amazon, Wilson has made five of his books available in the Kindle Store exclusively for one year using Amazon's e-book self-publishing tool, Digital Text Platform.