Dev Blog 8: Kindle eBooks 101

Don't have a Kindle? Don't have a dedicated e-reader or any kind? No worries. If you're reading this post, you'll be able to read Engines of Extinction.

Each EoE episode will be sold exclusively through Amazon.com for a limited window before being made more widely available. Why? Going timed-exclusive with Amazon allows for certain promotional tools that are otherwise unavailable. And based on the sales of my previous ebooks, Amazon.com makes up such a large percentage of overall sales anyway that I bet the gains those tools provided would more than offset any losses incurred by delaying sales through iTunes, Barnes & Noble, etc.

But it shouldn't really matter to those of you out there interested in purchasing the series. No matter what device(s) you have, if you're on facebook, you should have no problem reading EoE as purchased from Amazon.

I'm guessing most of you are already well up to speed on this, however, occasionally, I'll run into someone who thinks they need a Kindle to read a Kindle ebook from Amazon. That's not the case. There are free Kindle apps along with a Kindle cloud reader that allow you to read whatever Kindle books you've bought across your devices, whether we're talking Kindles, iPad & iPhones, non-Kindle Android tablets & phones, or your notebooks and desktops (both Mac and PC).

Just search 'Amazon' or 'Kindle' in the respective app stores for your phones and tablets or follow the following links below to access readers for your computers:

http://www.amazon.ca/gp/feature.html/...

https://read.amazon.com/

So no excuses! Okay, with that out of the way… I'm just doing some late polishing and getting ready for next week's release. Look for more updates as we get closer to launch.