Abendau's Heir is published.

[Ray McCarthy]

That didn't work for @Brian Turner Ray

a) Perhaps a Kindle fire
b) Perhaps saved in the wrong place.
I've tested kindle app on several things and ebooks on 4 different generations of real Kindle.


A Kindle Fire isn't a "real" kindle, it's a customised tablet with Amazon apps, I don't know where it expects an ebook to be stored, but the Android tablet I tested needed ebook to be saved where Amazon Kindle App expects it to be. On one Windows version, double clicking on an random located eBook resulted in Kindle app copying it to its preferred eBook location. Later versions of Windows Kindle App use a protected store that they copy it to, so that if you download direct to the Kindle App from Amazon, you can't copy the book to your kindle or make a backup, your other kindle apps / devices have to download it AGAIN from the Amazon Cloud. This is why with limited cap and desire to have backup that if buying from Amazon I pick "deliver to PC", NOT the Kindle App on a PC or actual Kindle.

It's confusing.

The save or copy method only works with .azw, .prc .mobi or pdfs. Anything else needs converted using mobicreator (or Calibre if an ePub) or by email to the Kindle (in which case Amazon uses mobicreator).

[Amazon or MobiCreator actually use a copy of Word or similar to convert Word Doc or DocX to intermediate HTML, as actually all eBooks are really filtered HTML, images, css and database in a single file.]

If you "jailbreak" a physical Kindle (at least in the past) then ePubs work but .azw files with DRM bought from Amazon DON'T open. So don't "jailbreak" a Kindle if you use bought books with DRM rather than Smashwords or Gutenberg!

 

[chopper]

congratulations Jo! for the record, it looks like i'll be spending a few ££s (more than a few!) at the table at EdgeLit

 

[Susan Boulton]

Bought the ebook this morning(to read on my phone on the way to Eastercon) and ordered the paperback!

 

[Phyrebrat]

Late to this party, apologies.

Congratulations Jo, all your hard work has pulled off. I'm sure you'll be a name to reckon with.

The best part of it is I can now say I have had crits from another for-really author (oh, what, you mean the best part is that you got published? Oh, yeah, that too )

pH

 

[Alex Davis]

Looking forward to reading it, although got to be paperback for me!

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Tis here, signed and ready for courier tomorrow. part of the delay was a. Me living in the sticks and b. That NI take a different Easter holiday than the rest of the world.

 

[TheDustyZebra]

Is that picture specifically designed to get under the skin of some of us, or was one of them printed upside-down?

 

[farntfar]

I bought the ebook (because I'm an old miser, and that's the way I mainly get english books in France anyway).
I'm currently on chapter 6 and loving every minute of it.
This is wonderful stuff Springs. (Am I allowed to call you Springs now that you're famous?)
Loads of congratulations.

 

[Glitch]

Is that picture specifically designed to get under the skin of some of us, or was one of them printed upside-down?

That must be the Australian edition

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Is that picture specifically designed to get under the skin of some of us, or was one of them printed upside-down?

Hmm, it got under @HareBrain 's skin, too. Pedants of the world unite?

I bought the ebook (because I'm an old miser, and that's the way I mainly get english books in France anyway).
I'm currently on chapter 6 and loving every minute of it.
This is wonderful stuff Springs. (Am I allowed to call you Springs now that you're famous?)
Loads of congratulations.

Thank you so much, I hope you enjoy the rest of it!

 

[Gary Compton]

Team Zebedee!!

Great work from Teresa and Sam!

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

Yes, Sam did important work on Abendau (and Oracle, too). Even when a manuscript is as "clean" as Jo's was, copy editing is a painstaking, tedious task. If it is done well, nobody notices—which is rather the point—so copy editors rarely get the credit they deserve.

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Yes, Sam did important work on Abendau (and Oracle, too). Even when a manuscript is as "clean" as Jo's was, copy editing is a painstaking, tedious task. If it is done well, nobody notices—which is rather the point—so copy editors rarely get the credit they deserve.

Absolutely - and Sam was a star and so easy to work with.

And it's everything - the formatting, the cover, the amazing editing (). I can't thank everyone enough. (And the patient, patient, patient betas. I couldn't guess how many hours they, and especially the Hex-men have out into the book, not just in critiques, but in answering questions and looking at covers and, also, in the support we all need. And a few laughs, too...)

 

[TheDustyZebra]

Aww, you guys are going to make me blush!

Hey, Jo, I think Gary's sending my copy with my box of books -- I may have to hit you up for the personal message and DNA some other time.

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Aww, you guys are going to make me blush!

Hey, Jo, I think Gary's sending my copy with my box of books -- I may have to hit you up for the personal message and DNA some other time.

I has plans for the DNA...

 

[TheDustyZebra]

I has plans for the DNA...

That makes me very, very afraid.

 

[Gary Compton]

Sam, your signed copy is coming seperately, as is Teresa's.

It's the least I could do.

 

[TheDustyZebra]

What did Jo do to it? She's entirely too pleased with herself, there.

 

[Jo Zebedee]

That makes me very, very afraid.

Well, you won't notice two more kids, right? They're house trained and all. Boxing them up now.

 

[TheDustyZebra]

Did I mention I'm moving? Packing just started, this very moment.