By now you've noticed the ads for the Bookhabit Unpublished Contest. TNcowgirl asked if I could look into whether it's a scam or not, and I'm pretty sure it's not (although if you have different info., do share). Whether it's a good idea depends on how good your book is, but it does not look like a scam.
Bookhabit is a different kind of self-publishing service. From what I got, you can upload your book and then Bookhabit will sell it on their site as an e-book at a starting price of $2.95. As the book gets more popular, the price goes up, and you always get 40% of the price.
The contest asks you to upload your book. Bookhabit will take the top 10 books from that week and place them in a semi-finalist category. After six weeks, it goes into the finalist stage where only the top 10 overall get selected. Then a panel decides which one is the best and awards that author $5,000. At no time do you pay a dime, an excellent indicator of it not being a scam.
From what I saw, it's probably worth entering into. If you think your book is really, really good, then save it for submitting to a publishing agency. But if it's in that twilight zone of being good but probably wouldn't be published, then try submitting it. Plus, keep in mind that getting published is extremely difficult. There are a lot of authors as of late who started out by having their books downloadable as e-books.
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