I was reading a book the other day on my iphone (The Last Indian War, a highly recommended story of the Nez Perce Indians) and noticed a really interesting map. Zooming in, I couldn’t figure out the name of something:
Toolboothhootrote Band? Toolboohoolrote Band? Horrible…
I read a lot of books and never got why books on Amazon’s Kindle were so expensive. $9.99? Greedy authors. A lot of people agree, you can see by just browsing Kindle books:
The customers are firmly in the “The Author / Publisher is Greedy” camp. I never crunched…
A few things happend after my post about Amazon’s 127,000% markup. Well, there were 40k visits to this blog in 24 hours (which at one point actually brought the site down) thanks to Hacker News, Radar, Reddit, The Domino Project, The Next Web and a few smaller blogs. I met a ton of great authors, vendors…
So my book about travel came out last week! Think about buying it directly from me: This Book Is About Travel .mobi (Kindle Version) or This Book Is About Travel .pdf. A pretty exciting time. I’ve decided to write a few posts covering the launch and lessons I’ve learned. (more…)