Broken Evolution II
September 9, 2013
Having taken time to contemplate, I’ve decided to push ahead with things. I’ve just re-published Broken Evolution through all channels, and a couple of new ones (Apple iBook and Google books). I needed to re-publish anyway because my paperback publisher wasn’t really cutting the mustard anymore. The only reason I went with that option first time around is to get the listing in the distributors (Ingram, etc.) Experience has proven that it’s not really worth that, especially as the publisher wants a recurring fee to keep the distributor listing active.
CreateSpace titles can be ordered in most bookstores from customer demand now anyway. With all the distribution options available in CreateSpace now, no up-front fees, and cheaper paperback sales price with higher margin for the Author, I don’t know how small vanity presses will survive. You can’t fight city hall … or Amazon. So knowing I was going to re-publish through CreateSpace, I took the opportunity to make some small tweaks to the text and publish as a second edition (get me – my book is in reprint!) The kindle edition has been revised too. Amazon have been adding features there too – MatchBook means you can now offer the kindle edition of Broken Evolution free if you’ve already bought the paperback – which sounds like a fair and sensible thing to offer any of my readers.
I also took the opportunity this time to publish on the iBook store. I held off until now. Apple, as always, have to go completely their own way, and producing an iBook is another learning curve and set of tools to download and install. They also insist an author outside the US have an ITIN before charging for a book, which means sending your passport (not a copy!) to Uncle Sam. Maybe later! But, it’s done, and should be available free for a time, once (and if) it gets through Apple’s legendarily glacial review process.
Finally, what’s driving this new impetus in publishing is my decision to look at continuing The Genaform Legacy. It was always my intention to make this tale a series of books, and … well … not to put too fine a point on it, I’m going to die someday, and they aren’t going to write themselves before then, are they? So Broken Evolution II: title TBD.
I’m also going to try something a little different with the book this time around. More on that shortly. Watch this space.
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