Uli, There is an EPUB version of the book on the Internet Archive:
http://www.archive.org/details/MakeYourOwnSugarActivities In the Introduction (which is included in the free sample you can get from the Kindle store) I explain where you can get the different formats the book is in, including the free downloads in the Internet Archive. The idea of putting the book in the Kindle Store was not to make money so much as it was to expose the book to people who might otherwise not see it, like people looking for books on Python. 99 cents is the minimum price in the Kindle Store and I figured that people might pay that for the wireless delivery to their Kindles. You can easily put MOBI files on a Kindle using the USB/charging cord that comes with it, but Amazon doesn't go out of their way to tell you that. The way I made the book is to start with an EPUB and run the kindlegen utility against it. So while the book is not in an open format it started out in an open format. When you put a book in the Kindle Store you can ask for DRM or not. Apparently once you ask for DRM there is no turning back. I'll never put DRM on my books, though. As you point out, it limits your market. James Simmons On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 4:12 PM, Uli Spalthoff <[email protected]> wrote: > I am one of the happy buyers. Fortunately there is no DRM used. So I could > convert the book from the proprietary Kindle format into the open ePub > format. Otherwise I could not read it on my ebook reader, just on the > computer. > > This book is excellent! > > Kind regards, > Uli > > > > Am 26.05.2011 16:33, schrieb James Simmons: >> >> I'm up to 7 sales of "Make Your Own Sugar Activities!", which is good >> enough to make my sales ranking 100,011 out of over 750,000 books. >> Yesterday those same 7 sales made my ranking 60,425. If this keeps up >> soon I won't be one of the top selling authors on the Kindle Store. >> > > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
