THE BOOK
Some of the ideas discussed in this blog are published in my new book called "The Stonehenge Bluestones" -- available by post and through good bookshops everywhere. Bad bookshops might not have it....
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Sunday, 3 November 2019

The Stonehenge Bluestones -- Kindle edition now available



Up until quite recently it was very complex to get heavily illustrated books converted to the right "Ebook" format for reading on the Kindle and other devices.  Now, however, Amazon has introduced a new app (not available across all platforms) called "Kindle Create", which allows PDF versions of illustrated books with complex layouts to be uploaded and re-formatted.  It takes a bit of getting used to, and is not free of glitsches, but as far as I can see it works quite well when downloaded onto a Kindle.  This is where the book may be found:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07ZXLLF34

Please note that because this Kindle book is created to a special format, when reading you can flick forwards and backwards, from one page to another, but you cannot change font, page brightness or print size as you can with Kindle novels.  That may be a bit of a limitation for some readers.

Anyway, there it is, priced at £6.99 (a big saving on the paperback price of £15.00) -- and I hope people will invest in it and give me some feedback.  Weirdly, Amazon does not give publishers a method of previewing the uploaded book and seeing it exactly as an Amazon customer would see it!  And they are as vicious as ever on their fees and royalty arrangements -- if I am lucky, I will get around £2.40 for every copy sold.  Amazon always claims to encourage authors and expand our literary heritage -- in fact, because they control the market, they screw the life out of everybody in the supply chain.

I would appreciate feedback on three things:

1.  Overall print and illustration quality;
2.  Contents table -- do the links to individual chapters work OK?
3.  Do the hyperlinks to web sites and videos work as they should?

Thank you!

2 comments:

CysgodyCastell said...

My copy is signed. Cant do that on a kindle.

BRIAN JOHN said...

Very true. And you also can't scribble rude comments all over the pages, or highlight sections you approve of with a highlighter pen. (That having been said, I think there are some eBook readers now which do enable comments etc to be recorded in a column alongside the page, and allow highlighting of selected sections in colours of your own choice....... )