How to pay money for my free e-book
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.
2 Comments, Comment or Ping
Dave Harte
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
Jun 13th, 2007
marc reck
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!
Jun 14th, 2007
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