Founders of Christian eBooks Today.com
Welcome, Jim &
Karen.
Can you tell us what Christian
eBooks Today.com is all about?
Jim: Christian eBooks Today.com is a website that
is for fans of Christian fiction and nonfiction. It is a safe place to browse and learn more
about great Christian eBooks without worrying about coming across any racy or
explicit content.
Why did you start Christian
eBooks Today.com?
Karen: In August, Jim joined the ranks of the
unemployed, so I asked him what he thought about helping me launch a site for
Christian readers. It took some
convincing, but he finally agreed to do it.
Jim: Hey!
It didn’t really take much convincing.
I like the idea of being self-employed.
Karen: Anyway, I’ve been an avid reader of Christian
fiction since I was a young girl. But,
over the past few years as I started publishing books, I noticed that it was
getting harder and harder to browse for Christian eBooks online without coming
across some pretty embarrassing and racy covers. I just wanted to find a good clean Christian
romance book and find new authors, so the idea for Christian eBooks Today was
born.
On your Vision and
Mission page on the website, you mention edgy Christian fiction. Can you tell us more about this?
Karen: Sure.
Over the past few years or even a decade, the Christian fiction market has
been changing. Authors are writing more
true-to-life characters that get thrown into some pretty tough circumstances,
such as rape, abuse, abandonment, etc.
In fact, some of my novels fall into that category.
Some readers don’t like the trend, while others prefer
it. We wanted to mention that we accept
those types of books on our site so readers are not surprised if they come
across such books.
So, your site
includes Christian nonfiction too?
Jim: Yes.
We include a variety of nonfiction genres, too. Bible studies, devotionals, self-help,
Christian living and much more. We’ve
heard from several nonfiction Christian authors that many sites exclude their
books. We really want Christian eBooks
Today to be a place where readers can find any type of Christian eBooks.
Who runs the site, I
mean really?
[Karen glances at Jim and giggles.]
Jim: We joke around. I’m the chief operations officer and Karen is
the CEO. She has the vision and then I
do all the hard work to make it happen.
Karen: [elbows Jim]
I do some of the hard work, like marketing and writing content.
Jim: Okay, okay.
I’ll give you that.
Is there anything
else you would like to share with my readers?
Karen: Yes.
We have a feature on our website under the “For Readers” menu called
“Reader’s Choice”. This is where readers
can fill out a form telling us about great Christian eBooks that they’ve
read. Each week, we will select one
submission to appear on our website.
Then, once a month we will randomly choose a winner from all of the
submissions (even if they don’t get featured).
The winner receives a $25 gift card from Amazon or Barnes &
Noble. Readers can submit as many eBooks
as they want.
Wow, that sounds
great! So, where can we see this new
website?
Jim: Visit ChristianEBooksToday.com. You can also follow us on Twitter
(@cebtoday), Facebook, or Google+. Check
our site daily for our list of free fiction and free nonfiction ebooks.
Karen: Remember to sign up for our newsletter
too. Just click on the envelope icon in
the upper right corner of our site. Each
week we email readers a summary of our key weekly features including: guest
blog posts, great reads, author of the week, and the reader’s choice selection
for the week.
Thank you so much for hosting us!
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