Woo-Hoo!!! Working on broadening my ebook availability and possibly moving away from Amazon/Kindle
The Consequences of Long-Term Furniture Ownership is now available on
Smashwords and soon on Kobo, Barnes&Noble, and many others, including library/overdrive availability.
I've been exclusively on Amazon for many years - well over a decade but unsure when my first self-publication was. (I need to look that up!) But Amazon's recent notice of removing/eliminating Download and Transfer ability pushed me over the edge and I may or may not remain there.
This book was more or less a test to determine the difficulty of re-publishing on another platform -
Draft2Digital. Definitely some issues with uploading a MSWord docx file which is what I did/worked out as the best way to publish on Amazon. After abandoning that method and uploading a converted docx -> epub it worked much better with only a few edits. In particular I wanted to make sure it handled the formatting of the poems properly and for now it looks good.
P.S. a lot of little kinks I had to iron out to get formatted properly to publish via Draft2Digital but now that I’ve successfully published this one should have more to follow. I won’t bore you with every update as it rolls out but may post again when all is complete. Draft2Digital allows you to publish quite widely including to Amazon so my future publications are likely going through it and I may or may not continue to sell on Amazon. As they say, We'll see.
(also Apple Books rejected it because I mention my Amazon Author Site in the ‘About the Author’ text.
I may or may not change/remove that.
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