Well it depends on how you look at it, for some people I am not a published author because my book is not available in hardcopy, for others just the fact that I currently have a book to sell on Amazon makes me a published author. I am in the set of mind that since technology now enables us to get digital copies of books on our devices and carry them around I am in a way a published author.
Now to get to the point. I have a book available for the Kindle! That is pretty awesome by itself but the fact that it is my first book makes it even more awesome for me. And before the book was even out I was asked by people who knew I was doing this “Why are you only doing it on the Kindle, what about iBooks?”. Well my answer was that for now I’m making it kindle exclusive because it is the easiest thing to do.
Let me elaborate. First, to publish on the Kindle you only need a book you wrote or hold the rights to. Second, they give you instructions so simple a 10 year old could follow on how to format the book so that it looks best. Third, by publishing on the Kindle the book is available on so many other devices via the Kindle app (iOS, OS X, Windows…) and last, I was able to include the book in their landing program and for every copy that is borrowed I get a little bit back.
Now I’m not saying the book will be Kindle exclusive for ever, not even close. While the book will be Kindle exclusive for 90days, after those 90days are over the book will be released on iBooks and possibly even as a podcast book. I just wanted the book out in the world and available to people as soon as possible and releasing it to the Kindle first allowed me just that. And now I have 90days to make it in to an iBook.
For those of you interested below are the links to the various Amazon Kindle stores in which the book is available:
USA & International: http://www.amazon.com/The-Duchess-short-story-ebook/dp/B007RR89FW/ref=sr_1_3?…
UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Duchess-short-story-ebook/dp/B007RR89FW/ref=sr_1_…
Germany: http://www.amazon.de/The-Duchess-short-story-ebook/dp/B007RR89FW/ref=sr_1_1?i…
Italy: http://www.amazon.it/The-Duchess-short-story-ebook/dp/B007RR89FW/ref=sr_1_1?i…
France: http://www.amazon.fr/The-Duchess-short-story-ebook/dp/B007RR89FW/ref=sr_1_1?i…
Spain: http://www.amazon.es/The-Duchess-short-story-ebook/dp/B007RR89FW/ref=sr_1_1?i…
Also for those of you that want the book but don’t have the Kindle, Amazon made apps for various platforms and they are listed here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000493771#
