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Glad to hear you're happy folks. We're trying our best to keep up and -- between us -- Tony and I are trying to man the emails 24 hours a day (though we do drop off to sleep over our desks occasionally). But usually people are getting their books within a few short hours if not in minutes or by instant return.
Thanks for the kind words on 'Sweet Molly' Logseman. (That one's by another old newspaper pal of mine from the seventies, Terry Houston -- and so true to the life of the Scottish national newspaper scene of those times that I can even identify myself and many, many old friends among the crackpot crew of characters.) Here's karma to ya for the wee thumbs up. But I don't think we've heard from you with requests yet this year. Get your skates on.
Officially three days of RAEBW left (but we'll extend it 24 hours beyond to account for all the international time zone differences), so please do join in.
We've not had time to actually tot up the number of freebooks we've sent out so far in celebration of RAEBW, but it can't be far short of 2,000 (because we seldom send out only the promised two). Hope everyone will enjoy them when they reach the top of their to-be-read lists.
Had a problem over on the Kindle boards (which I seldom have time to visit) because some chap (The UK forum, I think) is convinced our offer's some kind of scam. I can't be bothered to respond. Would you? I find it hard to take to characters who pass judgement without checking things out. Our pals here and elsewhere know us better than that, so what the heck.
Scores of the Kindle folks did come aboard spontaneously, though, (we didn't open a thread there as we did here, but an MR member mentioned our deal in a running thread) and those who requested books seem delighted with what we sent. Enough said, I guess. I think MR will pick up a few new members from there, too. Not that MR is short of members.
One wee thing that's disappointing us this year is that we tried so darned hard to attract died-in-the-wool treebook readers and persuade them to at least give ebooks a fair-crack o' the whip with some free offerings. Of all the hundreds of requests we've had, though, I can't identify a single treebook reader who's taken us up on it. Neither can Tony. C'est la bloody vie, as they say in Scotland.
Thanks for joining in, folks. Bestests. Neil
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