Well-Reviewed Medical / High Tech Thriller for under $2

Mark Coggins · 06-11-2009, 07:22 PM

Hello Everyone,

I've lowered the price on my thriller VULTURE CAPITAL:

http://www.amazon.com/VULTURE-CAPITA.../dp/B0015YJ9QG

to under $2.

It was traditionally published in hardcover and softcover, and received good reviews from Salon.com, CNET and the Wall Street Journal among other places.

You can see more about the book on my website:

http://www.markcoggins.com/book/vulture.html

Including a short book trailer:

http://www.markcoggins.com/book/vulturetrailer.html

I've retained the ebook rights for VULTURE, so I thought I would give Kindle owners who don't know my work an opportunity to "sample" one of my books for a low price.

Hope you'll check it out.

Thanks,

Mark

Slow_hand · 06-12-2009, 05:43 AM

Down to $1.59 and I downloaded it. Thanks!

mores · 06-12-2009, 05:56 AM

Sounds interesting.
I don't own a kindle, and google found me these prices:

Mobipocket.com: $9.99
Lauriejbooks: $9.99

... It's so unfair!

KlondikeGeoff · 06-12-2009, 03:52 PM

Thanks, Mark, I bought it (at $1.59) and look forward to reading it. Sounds intersting.

kevindorsey · 06-12-2009, 06:16 PM

Sounds good, will put it in quee

Mark Coggins · 06-13-2009, 12:53 AM

Thanks for checking it out, everyone.

best,

Mark

Mark Coggins · 11-09-2010, 12:18 PM

Hello Everyone,

Just wanted to announce that all five of my novels in the award-winning August Riordan crime fiction series:

THE IMMORTAL GAME
VULTURE CAPITAL
CANDY FROM STRANGERS
RUNOFF
THE BIG WAKE-UP

are now available on the Kindle, the Nook and Apple's iBookstore for $2.99.

Books in the series have been nominated for the Shamus and the Barry crime fiction awards and selected for best of the year lists compiled by the San Francisco Chronicle, the Detroit Free Press and Amazon.com, among others.

RUNOFF and THE BIG WAKE-UP won the Next Generation Indie Book Award and the Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY) respectively, both in the crime fiction category. THE IMMORTAL GAME was optioned for a film.

Click on the book title links to read more about each novel on my website.

Finally, a suggestion about reading order: although VULTURE CAPITAL is the second in the series, it's more of a standalone, so you may prefer to start with THE IMMORTAL GAME, skip to one of the later novels and come back later to read VULTURE.

Thanks!

--Mark

rhadin · 11-09-2010, 02:05 PM

But no Smashwords edition?

desertgrandma · 11-09-2010, 02:15 PM

Doesn't this leave out Sony?

Worldwalker · 11-09-2010, 03:04 PM

#$$##%#$#%

I'm having one of those days. I wanted something to read. Five books, they looked good, and right up my alley.

And they're ONLY FOR DEVICES I DON'T OWN (and DRM-locked, too, from the look of it).

Yeah, that does me a lot of good. Not.

Looks like Tim Myers is going to get my money today.

Mark Coggins · 11-12-2010, 12:45 AM

Sorry folks. The issue is with Sony is that they don't have a provision for individual authors to publish books, so no way for me to get it on the device.

Smashwords won't accept a formatted ePub file. They will only take a Word file--which they "smash" up--automagically. The result is less often less than optimal.

I'm working to get on Kobo, if that helps.

best,

MC

Mark Coggins · 11-12-2010, 12:48 AM

P.S. Here are Scribd previews if you're interested:

http://www.scribd.com/my_document_collections/2628904

Worldwalker · 11-12-2010, 09:56 AM

I don't want previews, though.

For $2.99 (I assume that's per book) I'll just go buy the books -- that's impulse-purchase money.

Yeah, I know Smashwords can do brutal things to books. There was quite a discussion going on about that on MR. For books without tables or pictures, however, authors seem to have come up with ways to make them come out about like what went in, which is all the readers generally care about. I have no clue what that way actually is, but I'm sure if you asked in the author section a couple of boards down, someone would explain it. I did indeed buy the Tim Myers books (actually, I ended up with 7 of them, which is a couple of weeks of reading) and he can make Smashwords behave, so there has to be a way to do it.

Like many people, I like to support MR authors when I can, and I've found some great books that way. It frustrates me horribly to see books I can't buy. (don't worry about the Sony store, by the way ... I don't even have their software installed; I don't buy DRM-locked ebooks)

Mark Coggins · 11-13-2010, 02:03 PM

Unfortunately, all the books are illustrated with photos--and in one case, a map--so I just can't make Smashwords work.

Thanks for the feedback, though.

Worldwalker · 11-14-2010, 01:52 AM

Hello, Smashwords, are you reading this?

Please allow authors to upload valid epubs (or at least valid HTML) instead of just MS-Word documents.

06-11-2009, 07:22 PM	#1
Mark Coggins Crime Fiction Author Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: San Francisco, CA Device: Kindle	Well-Reviewed Medical / High Tech Thriller for under $2 Hello Everyone, I've lowered the price on my thriller VULTURE CAPITAL: http://www.amazon.com/VULTURE-CAPITA.../dp/B0015YJ9QG to under $2. It was traditionally published in hardcover and softcover, and received good reviews from Salon.com, CNET and the Wall Street Journal among other places. You can see more about the book on my website: http://www.markcoggins.com/book/vulture.html Including a short book trailer: http://www.markcoggins.com/book/vulturetrailer.html I've retained the ebook rights for VULTURE, so I thought I would give Kindle owners who don't know my work an opportunity to "sample" one of my books for a low price. Hope you'll check it out. Thanks, Mark

11-09-2010, 12:18 PM	#7
Mark Coggins Crime Fiction Author Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: San Francisco, CA Device: Kindle	All Five Books in the August Riordan Series Available for $2.99 Hello Everyone, Just wanted to announce that all five of my novels in the award-winning August Riordan crime fiction series: THE IMMORTAL GAME VULTURE CAPITAL CANDY FROM STRANGERS RUNOFF THE BIG WAKE-UP are now available on the Kindle, the Nook and Apple's iBookstore for $2.99. Books in the series have been nominated for the Shamus and the Barry crime fiction awards and selected for best of the year lists compiled by the San Francisco Chronicle, the Detroit Free Press and Amazon.com, among others. RUNOFF and THE BIG WAKE-UP won the Next Generation Indie Book Award and the Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY) respectively, both in the crime fiction category. THE IMMORTAL GAME was optioned for a film. Click on the book title links to read more about each novel on my website. Finally, a suggestion about reading order: although VULTURE CAPITAL is the second in the series, it's more of a standalone, so you may prefer to start with THE IMMORTAL GAME, skip to one of the later novels and come back later to read VULTURE. Thanks! --Mark

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Slow_hand Groupie Posts: 190 Karma: 326 Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Baltimore Device: Amazon Kindle 2	Down to $1.59 and I downloaded it. Thanks!

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mores Guru Posts: 834 Karma: 102419 Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Vienna, Austria Device: iPhone	Sounds interesting. I don't own a kindle, and google found me these prices: Mobipocket.com: $9.99 Lauriejbooks: $9.99 ... It's so unfair!

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kevindorsey Evangelist Posts: 488 Karma: 258 Join Date: Mar 2009 Device: kindle	Sounds good, will put it in quee

06-13-2009, 12:53 AM	#6
Mark Coggins Crime Fiction Author Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: San Francisco, CA Device: Kindle	Thanks for checking it out, everyone. best, Mark

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rhadin Literacy = Understanding Posts: 4,833 Karma: 59674358 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: The World of Books Device: Nook, Nook Tablet	But no Smashwords edition?

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desertgrandma Enjoying the show.... Posts: 14,270 Karma: 10462841 Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Arizona Device: A K1, Kindle Paperwhite, an Ipod, IPad2, Iphone, an Ipad Mini & macAir	Doesn't this leave out Sony?

11-09-2010, 03:04 PM	#10
Worldwalker Curmudgeon Posts: 3,085 Karma: 722357 Join Date: Feb 2010 Device: PRS-505	#$$##%#$#% I'm having one of those days. I wanted something to read. Five books, they looked good, and right up my alley. And they're ONLY FOR DEVICES I DON'T OWN (and DRM-locked, too, from the look of it). Yeah, that does me a lot of good. Not. Looks like Tim Myers is going to get my money today.

11-12-2010, 12:45 AM	#11
Mark Coggins Crime Fiction Author Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: San Francisco, CA Device: Kindle	Sorry folks. The issue is with Sony is that they don't have a provision for individual authors to publish books, so no way for me to get it on the device. Smashwords won't accept a formatted ePub file. They will only take a Word file--which they "smash" up--automagically. The result is less often less than optimal. I'm working to get on Kobo, if that helps. best, MC

11-12-2010, 12:48 AM	#12
Mark Coggins Crime Fiction Author Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: San Francisco, CA Device: Kindle	P.S. Here are Scribd previews if you're interested: http://www.scribd.com/my_document_collections/2628904

11-12-2010, 09:56 AM	#13
Worldwalker Curmudgeon Posts: 3,085 Karma: 722357 Join Date: Feb 2010 Device: PRS-505	I don't want previews, though. For $2.99 (I assume that's per book) I'll just go buy the books -- that's impulse-purchase money. Yeah, I know Smashwords can do brutal things to books. There was quite a discussion going on about that on MR. For books without tables or pictures, however, authors seem to have come up with ways to make them come out about like what went in, which is all the readers generally care about. I have no clue what that way actually is, but I'm sure if you asked in the author section a couple of boards down, someone would explain it. I did indeed buy the Tim Myers books (actually, I ended up with 7 of them, which is a couple of weeks of reading) and he can make Smashwords behave, so there has to be a way to do it. Like many people, I like to support MR authors when I can, and I've found some great books that way. It frustrates me horribly to see books I can't buy. (don't worry about the Sony store, by the way ... I don't even have their software installed; I don't buy DRM-locked ebooks)

11-13-2010, 02:03 PM	#14
Mark Coggins Crime Fiction Author Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: San Francisco, CA Device: Kindle	Unfortunately, all the books are illustrated with photos--and in one case, a map--so I just can't make Smashwords work. Thanks for the feedback, though.

11-14-2010, 01:52 AM	#15
Worldwalker Curmudgeon Posts: 3,085 Karma: 722357 Join Date: Feb 2010 Device: PRS-505	Hello, Smashwords, are you reading this? Please allow authors to upload valid epubs (or at least valid HTML) instead of just MS-Word documents.