David Kessler

London

I run a website called http://bookstolistento.com that offers writers of publication ready material a platform to sell their works as audiobooks, eBooks. Writers can set up "publisher" accounts, upload their own audiobooks/eBooks and set their own prices. We take a tiny commission (GB£0.40 plus 10%) and remit the rest to the author/publisher by the 8th of the following month

What are you waiting for! Format your book as an eBook - or record it as an audiobook - and upload it now. Don't wait for others! Those who get in first will make the most sales! People buy eBook readers and MP3 players for Christmas presents - and my site is the perfect place to sell your CONTENT to go with it!

In order to ensure that every new title gets a fair "crack of the whip" we send out newly uploaded audiobooks and eBooks to 12 random customers who have expressed a preference for that genre. When the book has received seven initial reviews, it Goes Live!

Reviews are structured to include indices like "sound quality" "characterization" "pace" and "gender bias" and these indices are \aggregated to give customers an at a glance average assessment by reviewers. Reviewers can also indicate "similar to" authors and books and customers can search for these with the advanced search engine to find authors and books similar to their favourites.

All books and customers participate in our three-for-one offer. For every three copies sold and reviewed a fourth is given free to a random (eligible) customer. Customers become eligible by buying and reviewing three other books. This incentivizes reviews and brings more books and authors to a wider public.

As for my own background, I am a published author of thrillers (Hodder) and non-fiction (Greenzone). I developed a course in writing thrillers for the London School of Journalism and tutored that course for several years.

Excavation

Four thrillers published by Hodder, a factual expose of police incompetence in the Wimbledon Common murder, developing and teaching a course in thriller writing, and most recently, setting up the bookstolistento website.

Ayn Rand, Harlan Coben, Dan Brown, Dan Ryan, Karen Dee, Sidney Sheldon, Nigel Farringdon

The Luddite Girls (Karen Dee)
The Year of Compulsory Childbirth (Nigel Farringdon)
Ethan and the Web of Lies (Dan Ryan)
Ethan and the Cryptic Clues (Dan Ryan)
Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand),
Goedel Escher, Bach (Douglas Hofstadter)
Total Man (Stan Gooch)
Innovation - the Attacker's Advantage (Dick Foster)
The Wisdom of Crowds (James Surowiecki)
The Long Tail (Chris Anderson)
The Tipping Point (Malcolm Gladwell)
Thriving on Chaos (Tom Peters)
Ogilvy on Advertising (David Ogilvy)
Living on the Third Planet (Hannes and Kirstin Alfven)
The Dreams of Reason (Heinz Pagels)
The Other Side of Midnight (Sidney Sheldon)
All the books of Harlan Coben
All the books of Dan Brown

Computers, chess, bi-sexual women, politics, philosophy, psychology, physics, outdoor survival, luxury yachts, fine cuisine.

Scientific American

"Sometimes truth comes riding into history on the back of error" (Reinhold Niebuhr)

"Make 'em laugh, make 'em cry, make 'em wait." (Charles Reade, describing the style of Wilkie Collins - NB some people credit the quote to Wilkie Collins.)

"A friend will help you move, a true friend will help you move a body" (Unknown)

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