I’ve had a lot of email about the free 20 Things e-book. Mostly people saying nice things. Some wanting to pay money for it.
I’ve received quite a few emails about the book, asking if it was available in print. It wasn’t — although there’s a cut-down booklet version of about half the length being prepared as we speak. It’s for a free giveaway by West Midlands creative sector development agency Digital Central.
But one of my correspondents reminded me that there are a couple of book self-publishing websites online. Lulu.com comes highly recommended. In half an hour this morning, I’ve uploaded the book, formatted it for print and it’s now available as a softcover for £14.
In that price is a little markup for me — just enough to buy me a cup of coffee to celebrate if I happen to sell one.
So… it’s yours to download free, but if you need a copy for reading in the bath, or to throw into your guitar case, buy my free e-book in dead tree format.
Oh yeah — and they’ll also handle music download sales and CD manufacture and retail.
Download Andrew Dubber's new book Music in the Digital Age - or, if you already have and you've been enjoying it or finding it useful, please consider paying for it here.
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Wow – you don’t hang around do you! I hadn’t realised this was possible. I may well purchase a copy to see what the quality is like.
With regard to the Digital Central version we’re looking at early July to go to print. We’ve got a bright sub-editor on the job so I’m sure the digested read will be as illuminating as the unabridged version. I’ll also throw in a copy of Professor Tim Wall’s ‘Making Money out of Music’ to anyone requesting your publication. That is currently available to download as a PDF from our site.
Cheers,
Dave
Thanks Dubber. Just downloaded to my free phone upgrade thigamajig and very much looking forward to reading it whilst on the move!
I spent a while looking for a reader for a free upgrade i was offered recently – (a sony ericsson w950), so for anyone else who may have had a similar “smartphone” offer, check out the free mobipocketreader, which is a nice little program, works for loads of mobile/pdas, and syncs all your ebooks and docs easily.
Implements well into a g.t.d setup too, as means you can take the thinking rock reports with you when you leave the house, which gets round the need for outlook, syncing or 3 phone internet charges..!
Takes me far too long to find these things out!