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Zachary Rawlins's Blog - Posts Tagged "kindle"
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I guess I should have stayed a bit more abreast of changes in Amazon Kindle store policy, 'cause while I was busy writing a free short story for fans of The Central Series, they changed their policies to disallow free books. Lame!
I was pretty much finished with the story, and quite liked it, too. Double lame!
This leaves me with three options:
-Charge 99 cents for what was supposed to be a free promo/reward for fans...
-Incorporate what I have already written into an introduction for The Far Shores, and move directly on to the third book...
-Increase the length to novella, and make it an awkward sort of Central Series book 2.5.
I should mention that I am aware of Smashwords and such, but at the moment, I simply don't have time to try and set up on yet another platform, just so I can give away a free story. Too much logistics, too much time away from actually writing.
I am not a huge fan of any of these options, as I just wanted to do a free short story e book via Kindle. At this point, my editor feels like the whole idea is shot, and I should just take what I have written and reshape it into an intro for the third book, which is coming along nicely, and go for a release in early 2013 for The Far Shores, and I am somewhat inclined to agree, as I am a bit frustrated with the current situation.
However, I know that some folks were really looking forward to it, and would resent the delay, even if the third book was book longer and arrived sooner, and would prefer that I release it separately. As my readers are all totally awesome, I would like to make everyone happy. But that, obviously, will not happen.
So if you have a vote, go ahead and let me know (here, on the Facebook page for 'The Central Series', or at spook_nine@yahoo.com). Who knows, you might help me make up my mind.
Grumble...
I was pretty much finished with the story, and quite liked it, too. Double lame!
This leaves me with three options:
-Charge 99 cents for what was supposed to be a free promo/reward for fans...
-Incorporate what I have already written into an introduction for The Far Shores, and move directly on to the third book...
-Increase the length to novella, and make it an awkward sort of Central Series book 2.5.
I should mention that I am aware of Smashwords and such, but at the moment, I simply don't have time to try and set up on yet another platform, just so I can give away a free story. Too much logistics, too much time away from actually writing.
I am not a huge fan of any of these options, as I just wanted to do a free short story e book via Kindle. At this point, my editor feels like the whole idea is shot, and I should just take what I have written and reshape it into an intro for the third book, which is coming along nicely, and go for a release in early 2013 for The Far Shores, and I am somewhat inclined to agree, as I am a bit frustrated with the current situation.
However, I know that some folks were really looking forward to it, and would resent the delay, even if the third book was book longer and arrived sooner, and would prefer that I release it separately. As my readers are all totally awesome, I would like to make everyone happy. But that, obviously, will not happen.
So if you have a vote, go ahead and let me know (here, on the Facebook page for 'The Central Series', or at spook_nine@yahoo.com). Who knows, you might help me make up my mind.
Grumble...
