Abendau's Heir is published.

[Kerrybuchanan]

@Brian Turner, we need a Mahoosive, gigantic, extra-big like button on here, please.

Brilliant news, Jo. Absolutely delighted for you xxxx

 

[Gary Compton]

Just a heads up to people receiving free ebooks.

All Kindles (and ereaders I suppose) have their own email address.

If you go docs on your KF, you should see an email address. Mine is
kindle_73367@kindle.com

I then have to email that address from my registered Amazon email address. (no oher will work)
Then it should load like an ebook sent from Amazon.

 

[AnyaKimlin]

"Everyone has a plan to use Kare. His cruel mother, the Empress, demands he accepts his position as her only heir. His father's rebellion want a figurehead to stand against her. Kare just wants to avoid the horrific future foretold for him."

Love this descripton btw very snappy. And why am I now imagining Jo spitting on every book and polishing it with her sleeve so it's personalised

 

[Juliana]

@Gary Compton, not sure I understand. Do I need to send you my kindle email, then?

 

[Ray McCarthy]

On your Amazon account you can "whitelist" anyone's email address to to work with your kindle. Or an entire domain
Every kindle has a default unique email address. The bit before the @ can be changed to ANYTHING you like for your own kindle from default, as long as no-one else got it first.

Go manage devices on amazon.com or amazon.co.uk (UK and Ireland) or maybe amazon.ca etc

There are THREE ways to put an Ebook on a Kindle.
1) Amazon "whispernet" via 3G or WiFi direct to Kindle from an Amazon purchase.
2) Any "whitelisted" email address can email a variety of document types to your Kindle's unique email address. If not an eBook, Amazon uses command line version of free MobiCreator (available to anyone) to make an ebook which is then delivered via method (1).
3) download to PC / Mac etc and use USB storage mode. Copy file. Can be used for Amazon Purchases, OR 3rd party free eBooks.

Note only (1) and (2) or Amazon Purchases are stored in Amazon Cloud and thus automatically available for your PC /Android / Mac reader or another Kindle. You can have I think five "kindles", were each reader app counts as a kindle.

I prefer to use (3) only as I have a backup, and then Amazon doesn't have a copy of my personal documents.

EDIT
But even when I forget to change default delivery method at purchase, I copy stuff off the kindle to my backups after it appears.

Big companies lose stuff and even vanish. If Amazon vanishes I'll my kindle will still work properly and documents still work, this might not be true of all ePub and of Kindle Fire.
DRM can even be removed (at least on .azw and .epub released up till now) if Amazon or others goes down in flames and Kindles wear out.
DRM on eBooks really is contrary to your rights and means it's not true purchase compared to CD, DVD or printed book.

After the fiasco with 1984 though, Amazon will be wary of deleting people's content on Kindles. But at least if it happens I have backups I can strip DRM off.

 

[Zoe Mackay]

Sorry to kvetch very lightly, but I'm keen to read Springs' book, and I pre-ordered and I paid for a paper copy (which is cool! I want!), and I kind of thought that "day of release" was "day of release", and it's a tiny bit irksome that it's been available on Amazon for two days when I could have been reading it (or, by now, already have read it), but I can't, either paper or ebook.

It's only a very minor whinge, and I'm sorry to be a pain, but my expectation was clearly out of whack with reality and I'm not sure where that happened.

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

Thanks for that information about white listing an address, Ray. Not long ago I was trying to email some documents to my husband's Kindle and when it didn't work until I tried it from his own email account, concluded that it was only possible to send things to one's own Kindle. I'm glad to see that there is another way to handle that.

 

[Gary Compton]

Robert the Paperbacks are on there way to us and as soon as we get them, they will be sent. The free ebook has been mailed to you. Do you have it, have you checked your spam?

 

[Zoe Mackay]

@Gary Compton Aha! Thanks! I have it now. (Literally just arrived). Sorry again for being a whiney demanding sort.

 

[Gary Compton]

Not a problem. Let me know if you know how to load it ok.

A simple PM would have sufficed or you could have called me 07773614544. I'm always available.

Not sure how it works in the real world but the 31st was the date it was available so that meant ebook available instantly and paperback had to be sent to us on 31st so will take a couple of days.

 

[Gary Compton]

Just checked - all ebooks for Abendau went earlier today in a bulk email. Anyone not receiving them. PM or inbox me on Facebook

 

[Juliana]

My email just arrived.

 

[Gary Compton]

Great, now to answer your question, earlier. Your kindle has its own email address. We shall call it 1

Your Amazon account has a login email we will call that 2

Send the file I just sent you from 2 to 1 and that should be it.

 

[Juliana]

Great, now to answer your question, earlier.

Actually, it was easy-peasy. I opened it on my iPad email, and I have my kindle app on the iPad too. So when I opened the file it gave me the kindle option and opened straight away, no fiddling required.

 

[Gary Compton]

You have some reading to do. By the way to encourage people to buy on TBP the free ebook will be ongoing on all titles.

I am setting it up so its automated and should go out straight away via email if book is released.

 

[Ray McCarthy]

Send the file I just sent you from 2 to 1 and that should be it.

or plug physical kindle into what ever has the email and save attachment in documents folder in the Kindle device. Or the app documents folder if a kindle app. No need to re-email it.
Otherwise 100% correct.

 

[Ray McCarthy]

buy on TBP the free ebook will be ongoing on all titles.

I really really like the idea of both physical and eBook.

 

[ratsy]

Got mine Gary! Will email to Kindle when I get home!

 

[Gary Compton]

or plug physical kindle into what ever has the email and save attachment in documents folder in the Kindle device. Or the app documents folder if a kindle app. No need to re-email it.
Otherwise 100% correct.

That didn't work for @Brian Turner Ray

 

[Gary Compton]

@Robert Mackay

I have sent you the Malevolence ebook as a gesture of apology for me not making myself clear enough on what would happen on release date.

Enjoy. Jo is in this twice.