Kindled!

[desperance]

Coo. My latest paperback, River of the World, is now available in a Kindle edition. How very Web 2.0 I am, to be sure...

(Sadly, Amazon hasn't thought to make Bridge of Dreams - to which River of the World is the sequel - available in the same format, but I guess that's because no thinking has been done in this particular transaction. Automated process, latest title, I am thinking...)

Comments

[carandol.livejournal.com]

It's actually the publisher that decides these things, not Amazon. A quick websearch shows it's available for other ebook readers too on other sites (though Amazon only promote ebooks for their own gadget these days). Bridge of Dreams doesn't seem to be available as an ebook anywhere -- perhaps you should have a word with your publisher!

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Is it? Thanks; I (demonstrably!) didn't know that. That makes, um, rather less sense, then. And I should, of course, have a word with the publisher. I'm not quite convinced that we're still talking, since they dropped me - but hey, they dropped me, so if I talk to them it's a demonstration of magnanimity, right? given that I'm not spewing magma? - and my US agent is off having sons, so there's nobody else to do it, so...

*goes off to be grown-up and talk to his publisher*

[carandol.livejournal.com]

Good luck! Most publishers don't seem to have much of a clue about ebooks. Sometimes they do what they've done with you; with other authors they'll release one volume of a series as an ebook because it's out of print, but not the rest. And their pricing is completely random -- Dune Messiah, for instance, costs more than the hardback, while other publishers are publishing ebooks of the same vintage at $15 for five or six novels.

PS

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Word had. She says, inter alia,

"Well, of course it makes no sense. All I can think is, by the time we
did RIVER OF THE WORLD, we had progressed to going all frontlist titles
in ebook format, and are still catching up on backlist.

"I'll email the person in charge of ebooks and point out that these two
are very closely linked and that BRIDGE really does need to be done."

So thank you!

Re: PS

[carandol.livejournal.com]

Oh, well, seems they have a clue then! I can see I'm going to have to buy it now! :-)

Kindled

[(Anonymous)]

Ready-Kindled books?

Pre-prepared for Fahrenheit 451?


Peter Johansen