PSA: Where the books are

[rolanni]

1. Want a signed, first edition hardcover of Lee and Miller’s upcoming Ghost Ship, the Thrilling Sequel™ to I Dare and Saltation? You can pre-order yours here, but be quick, O quick! Pre-orders close on April 30.

In case you’ve missed all previous discussion of this, more details are available here, or here.

2. Pinbeam Books (aka Sharon and Steve) has been converting Adventures in the Liaden Universe® chapbooks Numbers One through Seventeen into ebooks in a seemingly random, but actually cunning, fashion, and posting them to the Kindle store and to the Nook store. We will eventually branch out to other vendors. Note the use of the word “eventually.” Also bear in mind that both editions (Kindle and Nook) are DRM-free. This means that your mobi device will be able to read chapbooks uploaded for Kindle and your ePub reader will be able to read those uploaded for Nook.

2A. A search on Adventures in the Liaden Universe in the Kindle store at Amazon should net a list of those titles currently available.

2B. A search on “Adventures in the Liaden Universe” (mind the quotes — very important) in the NookBook store at BN.com should ditto.*

3. If you were having a bad day and took refuge under a rock yesterday, I repeat — The Ghost Ship eArc is now available from Webscriptions.

3A. If you have read, or will soon read, the above-referenced eArc and want to talk about it in a spoilery fashion, I ask, on behalf of those readers who will not read the story until August, when the hardcover is published, to please make use of the Liaden Spoilers Community, here, where a lively conversation is already in play.

4. Thank you for your kind attention.

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*Geek Help Requested: Why can I hot-link to specific book pages on Amazon and those links function both at sharonleewriter.com and LJ, but! hot-links to specific book pages that function at sharonleewriter.com are redirected (I think by BN?) to the front page? I like to make it as easy possible to part people from their money help people buy books. Is there a (legal, non-violent) way to get around the redirect?

Thanks!

Originally published at Sharon Lee, Writer. You can comment here or there.

Comments

[sleary.livejournal.com]

BN looks to have some pretty finicky URLs. Amazon is more forgiving. However: secret trick. On both sites (in fact, on MANY sites), you can chop off everything after the question mark to get a somewhat shorter URL. This might help with BN... let's see if this link gets us to Halfling Moon (http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Halfling-Moon/Sharon-Lee/e/2940012361783/).

[stitchwhich.livejournal.com]

Thank you for uploading two more chapbooks since two days ago - I zipped through everything that was available for my Nook on Tuesday, and had nothing new to read during my CT scan (aka 'wait here in this room with some stupid TV show on for hours') tomorrow. And now, I have a new-to-me set of stories and an old favorite to read.

Thank you very much!

[keristor.livejournal.com]

Both the Amazon and the B&N links work fine for me both on your site and on LJ. They both get me to a page listing all of your eBooks, no redirection to te front page of the site. Of course, that's with JavaScript blocked, it's quite possibl;e that B&N have some tricksy JS which notices that it was referred from LJ and disallows the search (they may have been burnt by "deep linking" from LJ posts before).

Many sites disallow "deep linking" (i.e. to anything apart from the places they want you to enter the site) altogether, because they want to be able to move things around without causing broken links. Or only allow it via special links (so, for instance, they might allow an author to create special links to their books which would then be independent from the actual links, much like using tinyurl hides the destinationlink).

[maddoxa.livejournal.com]

http://productsearch.barnesandnoble.com/search/results.aspx?store=BOOK&WRD=sharon+lee+steve+miller+nookbook&box=sharon%20lee%20steve%20miller%20nookbook&pos=-1&ugrp=2

is more complicated but brings up all your NookBooks at once

[maddoxa.livejournal.com]

interesting; how do I tag a link as nonsuspicious?

also, when I log out of LJ all the comments disappear.

I can't geek help, but

[estara.livejournal.com]

I like to make it as easy possible to part people from their money help people buy books.

In the interest of doing that I've noticed that while you do mention Barnburner and Gunshy on your homepage, you don't offer the direct links to the Fictionwise multiformat editions. I've had good luck hand-selling them but I'm sure more people would happily get them in the number of drm-free formats that are available there.
Here is the links
http://www.fictionwise.com/ebooks/b50952/Barnburner-/Sharon-Lee/?si=0
http://www.fictionwise.com/ebooks/b51142/Gunshy-/Sharon-Lee/?si=0
(If that has to do with fictionwise not being authorized to sell the books, please delete this comment... just thought of that possibility)

Let it be noted that I know at least three readers who would buy more in this series, too ^^ - not to mention more in the world of Carousel Tides.

And now I'm going off to give you $15.

Thanks!!! Oh, thankyouthankyouthankyou!

[ligeia-bm.livejournal.com]

Living so far away, e-books are a definite answer for me. i used to send more in postage charges than in the actual cost of books! The electronic format helps in this department and also in the nuisance of going through customs (who might or might not keep the parcel for inspection and additional taxes, in a mysterious pattern I'm still trying to understand, but alas! no success here). These are excellent news for me! Thank you very much. Now... I'm running to Amazon and Webscriptions, muahahahaha.