Comments on: My Book… for a Buck

By: Garett

Garett — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 20:28:39 +0000

Wow.

I loved the first book. Once I finally had tracked down a copy, I couldn’t put the book down.

I didn’t realized most people didn’t read acknowledgements. Learn something new every day (mind, I think you thanked just about everyone except the telephone company ).

I look forward to reading the other two books.

Thank you.

By: Arial Burnz

Arial Burnz — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:25:54 +0000

I have the Sony eReader and saw the promo in their eBook store, so I bought it. Looking forward to reading it based on the positive comments about the book. As an author, I’m intrigued with the whole eBook format. I LOVE to read and having all my books in a small “carrying case” is amazing!! I even have “War and Peace” in my eReader! Can you imagine that! (Don’t know if I’ll ever readi it, but it makes for a nice conversation piece!)

Good luck on your writing!!!

A fellow author,
Arial Burnz
http://www.ArialBurnz.com
http://www.EnchantedWoodz.com

By: Reg

Reg — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:27:56 +0000

Hey!
THANK YOU SO MUCH for putting up book three on Sony… I was getting
desperate out there!!! So really, thanks for the promo…great new author
Great books…
Looking forward to more “dollar” books!

By: Garett

Garett — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:22:35 +0000

Correction. Fictionwise only has eReader and Microsoft Lit, which are useless formats to me. I’ll have to hope my complaint to Mobipocket gets them to fix whatever it is that up.

By: Garett

Garett — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:19:04 +0000

I have to tell you, tracking down a eBook I can use has been hell. Mobipocket has apparently broken something somewhere and been delisted from OneDollarOrbit.com. Anyway, it appears that Fictionwise has the same offer so I’m off to order it there. I really wish Amazon would let people with mobi-compatible devices to register PIDs with them so we could buy Kindle books as well. I mean, I’d rather have access to cheaper mobi ebooks.

As for the guy complaining about DRM. I’m there with you, but at least most retailers are reasonable (register up to 4 devices, and you can change them later) and eInk displays are bloody amazing. Better than paper IMO. You just need the right tech.

By: Jesslyn

Jesslyn — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:08:20 +0000

Okay, I’m hooked. I am glad I revisited for the $1, and will have no problems paying full price for the other books in the series.

I am on Chapter 5 and if the rest of the book is as good as up to now, I will post a review on my site (and Amazon). Great story so far.

By: brent

brent — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 02:23:51 +0000

So when will book 3 be published on Sony’s eBook Store? The $1 book has me hooked and I’m looking to round out the collection? Great story arc…I’m hooked.

By: Mars

Mars — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:33:17 +0000

I downloaded this and found a new Author I like. Now I’ll be forced to buy the rest. Sneaky business tactics : )

By: brent

brent — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 01:25:45 +0000

Geoffrey,
Orbit orginally had this offer available through quite a number of ebook outlets, but got yanked by “territorial issues” at the last second back to only the above three. So lawyers rule us all.
If you want a book available by a Baen author, more power to them.
What we are able to do may be imperfect, but it doesn’t seem like such a moral outrage (to me at least) to accept a few restrictions in order to get a book for 1/8th its normal price. Just sayin’…

By: Geoffrey Kidd

Geoffrey Kidd — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:39:54 +0000

I’m seriously not impressed with the offer. The ebooks offered are available only from Amazon(DRM-locked to Kindle), MobiPocket(DRM-locked, and mobi on PDA is worthless as a reader), and Sony(DRM-locked to their proprietary reader.)

Would YOU buy a book that required you to say mother-may-I every time you tried to read it, and couldn’t be read anywhere except, say, in the privacy of your own study?

Feh! I say, and toddle off to Baen where I can get zero-DRM books at a good price and am not forced to use a greedy vendor’s proprietary format.