{"id":386,"date":"2012-05-16T13:00:11","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T17:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/polymathsolution.com\/blog\/?p=386"},"modified":"2012-08-16T10:19:43","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T14:19:43","slug":"im-for-sale-at-amazon-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/polymathsolution.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/16\/im-for-sale-at-amazon-com\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m for Sale at Amazon.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, my book is.<\/p>\n

Several years ago, I learned the craft of making chain mail and started teaching at a local science fiction con. The classes were, and still are a huge success.<\/p>\n

\"ByzantineThis ebook is an expansion of the pamphlet and instruction sheets I created for the classes. The illustrations are quite good (I’m a bit surprised I could make them look so nice), and I’ve been told the writing is clear as well.<\/p>\n

Last fall, I published the book through Smashwords<\/a>, an online publishing house that sells the book in many formats. It’s done modestly well, and I kept thinking about putting the book up at Amazon.com. [Amazon does not work with Smashwords, though the other major online retailers do. The 900 pound gorilla effect strikes again.] But everything I read indicated that preparing an ebook for Amazon was difficult and complicated, involving opening the files and hand coding in html. I can do this, but it takes time.<\/p>\n

I thought … why not try something? I took my Smashwords file, uploaded it as-is to Amazon \u2014 and it worked! I did have to adjust the formatting, but all the work was done in my word processor.<\/p>\n

Yesterday I published the book at Amazon, and today, anyone can see and download the book.<\/p>\n

Please take a look, and if you are looking for a new craft for the summer … consider chain mail!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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