I just listed the uke book at Amazon.com, should be live in twelve hours, so they say. Also going to be on Smashwords, which will, in theory, allow it to be on iBooks. (Though Smashwords is so anally-retentive that they kick back files and refuse to list them in their premium catalog if there is a crooked comma. Generally, I give that a couple shots and then give up. I don't sell that many books there anyhow, and Amazon.com is a lot easier to deal with.)
About 37,000 words, a short memoir, full of my usual blather and odd bits of this 'n' that. I don't expect it will set the world on fire, but the spew helped me ease the obsession a little.
Something on your mind and you are a writer? Lay it out, that's the best way to exorcise it ...
I tried a new format on the upload, be interesting to see how that comes across.
Now, back to fiction ...
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Any chance to see it on Nook, or does this become another reason to splurge for a Kindle?
Pretty much it's mostly Amazon.com. I try Smashwords, which supports Nook, but you really have to jump through flaming hoops to get something published there, and at some point, I usually just say "Fuck it!" and leave ...
Being the bibliophile that I am, I "splurged" on a tablet (Samsung Galaxy 10" running Android OS). NOOK, Kindle, Adobe, & MS Office-compatible software all available free, so I can read anything I care to download. Yeah, it was pricey, but probably not much more than buying a NOOK and a Kindle. Just one device to charge, and everything is in one place. Bonus: I've got my contacts (from Outlook on my desktop, since I'm one of those dinosaurs with a "dumb" phone).
Why I got an iPad ...
Naturally, my PDF is full of oddball control characters, so I have to reload the book. I will try Word, and if that doesn't work, ePub ...
There are online converters that will bring you from a mobi file to an epub (Kindle to Nook)- provided there is no DRM. E.g. http://www.2epub.com/
I don't use DRM on my stuff, so that's good. In theory, you can get an ePub from Smashwords, but I wouldn't bet on that one ...
Beginning to feel like the Three Bears and Goldilocks. The PDF had exclamation points; the Word file didn't like the italics; I'm trying the ePub file, which was verified online as okay. We'll see ...
Since I made the switch from Kindle to Nook, I have noticed a marked improvement in the number of formatting type errors- if that is any comfort.
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