Passage to Jarpara Release Date

 

The ebook and audiobook versions of Passage to Jarpara will be released on 21 March 2024 and shortly after for the audiobook. It will be priced for free on Google for both the ebook and audiobook, as well as on Apple, B & N, Kobo, Smashwords, and in various other European ebook stores. The Amazon version will be priced at $3.99. I am looking into bringing audiobooks to Amazon as well, and if that works out, it will be priced at $3.99 as well - Amazon's minimum.

Look for the paperback version of the title to be released a week or two ahead of the ebook release, as I will publish that version once I hear back from my beta readers. I'm always eager I to get my hands on the paper copies of my book so that I can send off to my beta readers. Hey, if I didn't buy them, no one would.

Speaking of Amazon's audiobooks - they have introduced a Beta program where they are offering to convert ebooks to audiobooks, I assume for free, since no price is quoted. However, to qualify, the ebook must have a table of contents, which I've not included in my ebooks. I see no useful purpose of a table of contents in an ebook of fiction as they always open where you left off, and searching back is a pain table of contents or not. I am, however, looking to add a table of contents, and this title will likely be the test bed for that. If it works, look for my audiobooks on Audible in the near future.

In the past Amazon has price match most of my free books in the US store, but starting this year, only two of my books are free on Amazon. Last year, with the release of The Girl on the Kerb, I launched it at $3.99 on Amazon and Amazon, all on its own, dropped its price to free a week after release. Amazon is a mystery box, so if you are an Amazon customer, you can wait to see what they do this time. As I have long said, I'm not publishing books to make money, but to entertain readers, so free is my preferred price.