Books Paperback Is Now On Sale!
After reading several horror stories, of books having bad glue, and pages printing in reverse order, and images coming out blurry and pixelated, I was sure my book would have all of these things with more troublesome attributes to add to the pile.
Finally, received my proof copy for the book in the mail, and it turned out better than I could have imagined.
Complete with barcode, copyright, and cream pages; I'm pretty proud of it.
It's availble for purchase through my store, and will be available to purcahse through Amazon in the next two weeks. The Kindle version should be available for purchase and download next Tuesday.
The ebook is making it's way around the net and can be read on Google Books and Scribd. I hope the exercises have been as helpful as the videos have been for everybody.
Special Offer (Now Thru 12/15/2009):
I believe writers should be paid for the work that they do, and so here's my deal for the holidays:
You can get:
$5 Off My Book! = 17.99 12.99!
Here's what to do:
- Read or Download the book for Free on this website, or Google Books, or Scribd
- Write a 100-original-word review about my book (good or bad, doesn't matter, as long as it's honest)
- Post it online, anywhere available to the public, and provide a link to my site: krismadden.com
- Send me a link to your post through the Contact Form on this website, with your name and email
- I'll verify the word count and make sure the writing hasn't been copied from another post
- If everything's checks out, I'll send you a secret code
- Go to my store and enter the code when you checkout
- Ta-Da! You get the book for 12.99
Now, where can your post be? Anywhere online that I'll be able to check and verify; posting on your corporate intranet or private forum, will not constitute a discount. If you want to post on Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, feel free, as long as the post is available to everyone and not just your friends or followers, you'll still get the discount. You can also register a blog or post a comment on another blog about my book, and you'll get the discount.
How Not To Get The Discount:
The goal of this activity is to pay you for spreading the word, not keeping it to yourself. Posting on a website that already has 100-original-word entry will not get a discount; there are plenty of places to write publicly on the web. I have no doubt that you will be able to find a site without an original 100-word-post.
The two exceptions too this rule are Google Books and Amazon, which can have multiple entries. Other than those two, make sure the website your posting on doesn't already have a post on it, before posting your review there.
Enjoy.
-Kris Madden
Reader Comments (3)
I was hoping for the Kindle version back in November when you mentioned it, but it hasn't shown up yet. Is it still planned?
Thanks for all that you do.
Is it still planned?
Yes, absolutely. In my attempts to convert the book over to the epub and kindle format the chapters lost their formatting almost entirely, rendering multiple chapters useless. I've tried many programs for converting including various programs in open-source and beta-testing, which have all produced similar results. To get the book to a point where it can be read in these formats it's going to need a major overhaul in reformatting the book. For this reason the book has been put on the back burner. And because it's available in pdf format and print, it's slid further down my list of to-do's with my new and upcoming projects. Sorry I don't have a more satisfactory answer for you. As of right now, the project is on pause until mid-summer, where I plan to have it formatted for kindle, iphone, ipad, sony, nook, etc.
Ideally, I'd like to develop an app that incorporated the videos with the text so people could get the whole experience of accelerated reading in one place. I've received a couple of offers from software developers to put together such a program for them, but declined on the basis of the software's price tag to the end user, being way too high. Anyway, that's all kind of lumped together as a project in my moleskine, which like I said, probably won't get some serious time until mid-summer. Hopefully, then I can have something more concrete to offer.
Thanks for the comment and hope that despite the lack of a kindle version, there's still enough content to enjoy in the meantime. Thanks again.
-Kris Madden
Kris, Cool. Thanks for the update, I'll grab a print copy.