On amazon. I know it’s a little more expensive, but hey two of the stories in it Neptune’s Orphans and High Stakes are 2.99 and 1.99, with the collection at 4.99 you’re getting three short stories for free.
Non DRM of course and weighing in at 35000 words. (Yes, RES I’m now selling stories by weight <G>)
For a gal who claims to be profligate with commas you sure are tight with them in mathematical use. You have any IDEA how many times I had to look at that to be sure you wasn’t selling 350,000 words? Couldn’t ya even have jus’ sed 35K words? (No, reckons not – ah hesitates tuh try comprehending what a Kiloword would be.) Ah well, iffen folks are fool ’nuff to buy their stories by the pound(ed keyboard) they deserve the results. Me, I will stick to buying them by the plot. (Okay, that’ll be two plots, five sub-plots and a mess o’ characters … and we’ll even toss in a comic interlude at no extra charge; you want that to go?)
So, as one who has steadfastly refused to give up my beloved tree-corpses and only recently bought a Nook (MY idea of a reading nook involves far more cushions) I s’pose I has to take the bait and ask the newbie dumb query: Non DRM means Amazon can’t unkindle my desire for your words, right? I can drag your lovely tales into my Nook, there to devour them at my leisure? ‘Cause there’s only one thing delaying that sale.
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You can’t drag it directly onto your Nook unless you have the Nook tablet with the kindle app on it. However, if you have Calibre (free program), you can download it to your computer (you’ll need the desktop version of kindle) and then convert it in Calibre to the EPUB format the nook reads.
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And I have no problems with that, since the story is yours to do with as you wish short of reselling or telling people you wrote it. :)
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Just seconding what Amanda wrote. Calibre is to book management what iTunes is to music management (only better and more flexible). It allows one to convert any non-DRM book from any ebook format to any other ebook format. It also allow one to “own” their books on their own computer rather than only on their reading device. Transferring “Five Tomorrows” from your Nook (or Kindle, iPad, etc.) to Calibre is dead easy. I know, because that is exactly what I did with my copy of “Five Tomorrows”. Once there, it can easily be transferred to another reader type.
I have no idea what future ebook reader will be the consensus reader, or what future ebook format will eventually win out as the “standard” for most books, but because of Calibre I’m sure that I can transfer my ebooks to that format when the time comes. Think of it as future proofing your investment.
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grumble grumble
I have it, converted and on the Nook. I am doubting I will ever like the device, but as a way of getting otherwise unavailable books I will eventually come to accept it.
Fortunately, I ENJOY grumbling, so I expect the device will provide many many many hours of enjoyment. grumble
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I have a tablet (cheap) and a kindle. I much prefer reading on the kindle, as it is more like reading a book. Not a kindle tablet, a regular kindle.
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