Over the past few months I’ve gotten many e-mails from Nook owners all asking the same thing: When will your stories be available for the Nook?
And the answer to that is: Right now. We got the Frevisse e-books up a few weeks ago and I’ve just received word that the conversion process has been finished for all of my e-books and they’re now available for sale at the Barnes & Noble website. Going forward, the Nook and Kindle versions will be getting released simultaneously whenever that’s legally possible.
(click any cover for its Nook page)
Kobo Owners: I know many of you are also waiting for these titles to be available through the Kobo store. Unfortunately, we have no idea when that will happen. Although you can buy the e-books available from Berkeley, Kobo has not made the other Frevisse e-books available despite the fact that they were submitted weeks and/or months ago. I have no control over this, and I recommend writing directly to Kobo if you want to see any action taken on it. It is within their power to offer the books; they simply haven’t done so.
However, the older Frevisse e-books (the ones that I have control over) are currently available through Smashwords. And if you buy them through Smashwords, you’ll be able to download them in a wide variety of formats, including the ePub format which will allow you to read them on your Kobo. (In fact, the formats available on Smashwords should let you read the books on any e-reader you might own.)
We’ll be converting the rest of the novelettes and short stories to Smashwords in the near future, and I’ll post an update here when that happens.
My tech person also tells me that we do not use DRM at any of our digital outlets, which means that it should be relatively easy to convert file formats. (Although, honestly, I’d be lost if you asked me to do it.)
– Margaret
September 24th, 2011 - 9:35 pm
“My tech person also tells me that we do not use DRM at any of our digital outlets, which means that it should be relatively easy to convert file formats. (Although, honestly, I’d be lost if you asked me to do it.)”
I regret to say that’s not the case. Every single outlet I’ve tried to purchase one of your books from has used DRM — most often Adobe DRM EPUB or PDF format — and now that I’ve taken the chance and tried purchasing “A Play of Lords” anyhow, I’ve ended up with a useless set of bits, rather than the book I was looking forward to reading!
October 21st, 2011 - 5:59 pm
Apologies for the confusion. Unfortunately, this post was only talking about the short stories.
It also applies to some of my novels, but only for the novels I won the digital rights to. At the moment that includes non-U.S. sales of The Novice’s Tale and all sales of Outlaw’s, Bishop’s, Boy’s, and Murderer’s.
If in doubt, just purchase from Smashwords.
October 23rd, 2011 - 12:31 pm
Clicking on the illustrations got me to the B&N place for them, which is a lot less generous than Amazon. Instead of letting you read a few paragraphs it limits you to general information that doesn’t help at all when deciding which to buy first!