Astrid Maxxim and her Amazing Hoverbike is now availabe at Kobo books for 99 cents. Follow this link right to it: http://www.kobobooks.com/ebook/Astrid-Maxxim-her-Amazing-Hoverbike/book-dHww_7RCZ0eAeEurAyXCNg/page1.html
Just a reminder for all of you with Kobo Readers and Kobo Reading Apps, Princess of Amathar is available at Kobo Books for 99 cents. Follow this link: http://www.kobobooks.com/ebook/Princess-of-Amathar/book-ehzRjm_LekqGKe7MPHBhmw/page1.html
My books have been available at Kobo Books for a long time, with one exception. His Robot Wife was one of a group of books that got caught in limbo between Smashwords and Kobo as the latter struggled to import newly published books. Finally, it is there! Just like the other locations where you can find the book, His Robot Wife sells at Kobo for 99 cents. You can get it by following the link below.
Follow the Link to Kobo Books.
If you own a Kobo Touch Reader, or any of the previous models of Kobo products, just a reminder that you can purchase my book Tesla’s Stepdaughers from Kobo for 99 cents. Follow this link: http://www.kobobooks.com/ebook/Teslas-Stepdaughters/book-14z8nyzYu0a5gCKPCferXw/page1.html
In a world where men are almost extinct, someone is trying to kill history’s greatest rock & roll band. Science Police Agent John Andrews must negotiate a complicated relationship with Ep!phanee, the band’s lead singer; drummer Ruth De Molay, bassist Steffie Sin, and the redheaded clone lead guitarist Penny Dreadful, as he protects them and tries to discover who wants to kill the Ladybugs.
Not only that, but you can still be the first one to review this book on their site. Hope you like it.
I remarked yesterday about the forced social participation in Kobo reading apps. I should note that you can turn this feature off, but you can’t partially use it. You are either all in or all out. One other annoying feature of this app is rewards for reading. As you read, you get awards for finishing a book, reading so many pages, etc. God, I hope this doesn’t catch on. The English teacher in me wants to say “whatever it takes to get somebody reading,” but if you’ve already downloaded a reading app or bought an ereader, you’re already a reader. This was clearly designed by somebody who isn’t.
Ebook readers have been making a lot of the social aspect of reading lately. I’ll be honest. I didn’t know there was one. I’ve always thought that reading was essentially a solitary activity. That’s what I like about it. Well, I guess I like a lot of other things about it more, but I’m happy with being a solitary reader. On the other hand, I wouldn’t mind reading being a little bit social. I like recommending books that are good, but I don’t want everyone to know what page I’m on of every book I pick up.
The Kobo reading app on my iPad synchs to Facebook and Twitter and reports every little detail. That’s one of the reasons I don’t use that app. Some books are guilty pleasures that I don’t necessarily want to broadcast that I’m reading them. Others might be really guilty pleasures.
The new Nook lets me publish similarly to Social sites, but only when I want to. I can report which page I’m on, my rating, my review, and similar bits of information, but it doesn’t get automatically posted. You also can’t do it with books you didn’t buy from BN. That’s kind of annoying, but they are in the business of selling books.
All in all, I hope that the forced social details are a fad. I don’t find it fascinating to read that one of my Facebook friends is eating Chocolate Cheerios at 5 AM or that “Jersey Shore is Awesome”. Got news for you “friends.” Everything you type is not the wit and wisdom of the ages.
There has been a huge increase in downloads of His Robot Girlfriend in the past month– although it has been downloaded at more than 5,000 times per month for some time. Although available at Manybooks, Smashwords, and Feedbooks, it seems that readers are discovering it now at Kobo, Diesel, iBooks, and B&N.
I’ll be honest. I was happy enough with it when it was first done, but now I think I’ve improved quite a bit in my story telling and writing and I’m a little embarrassed that it’s not better than it is. Oh well, many people seem to like it– there are more 5 star reviews than 1 star reviews.
If you are like me, a Sony EReader fan who moved over to iPad, you may have had a problem reading your old books on your new device. Enter Bluefire Reader. It reads Adobe DRM, so you can read books bought at Sony, Kobo, Borders, and a lot of other ebook sources (but not Amazon or B&N). You can also use it to read ebooks from the library and it has built in support from Feedbooks (where you can download my free books) and other online ebookstores. Best of all– it’s free. Ket it and ad one more blade to the techie Swiss army knife that is the iPad.
City of Amathar 