free websites for garden/home book authors

**J* L* <h*@yahoo.com>**

This is a press release that just showed up in my work e-mail. I don't know anything about it except the idea is interesting and the site looks legit. So I'm passing it along in case anyone on the list is interested: 

Nashville, TN, (May 12, 2009) – FiledBy <http://filedby.com/> , the largest directory of author sites on the Internet recently went live in March of 2009. Located at http://www.filedby.com <http://www.filedby.com/> , FiledBy provides a single location where all authors and books can be easily discovered, and a free author site which can be claimed and enhanced by every published author with an active ISBN in the U.S. and Canada.

FiledBy now provides every author of a home and garden book with a free site, which they can claim, enhance and use as a marketing and sales vehicle for their books and themselves.

FiledBy’s more than 1.8 million author pages can integrate photographs, biographies, video, links, podcasts or PDF’s for free. Upgraded site tools <http://filedby.com/service/tier_matrix.aspx>  are optional and include press kits, blog tools, event listings, promoting forthcoming books, resume tools and more. For authors without a website, FiledBy is a free or low-cost solution that provides control over their content, helps sell books and can serve as the primary online platform for their work. For others, it’s an online platform that complements and links to existing author websites, Facebook pages, Twitter, publisher pages, blogs or groups.

 “Our goal is to help more readers discover authors and purchase their work,” said Peter Clifton, FiledBy president & CEO.

The site features more than 1.8 million author websites and 7.5+ million book pages. All books are available for sale through Amazon, B&N.com, Powells, Borders, Indigo and Indiebound.

Additionally, any reader can join the FiledBy community and start connecting with authors. Readers can fill in their own pages, create a favorite author list, build a bookshelf, write reviews, rate works and authors, and comment through wall postings.

The data used to build the site is licensed from trusted industry sources and supplemented by data from publishers and content contributed by authors. 

FiledBy, Inc. is a digital marketing company providing membership sites, web tools, e-commerce and community building solutions to authors, illustrators, photographers, artists, editors and readers.  The company, based in Nashville, Tennessee, operates FiledBy (http://www.filedby.com), an online community designed to connect readers and authors.

Best,Judy LoweDiggin' Ithttp://features.csmonitor.com/gardening

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