I just uploaded my free safer sex ebook/reference guide to Amazon’s Kindle catalog. I had the notion that I’d make it free content, as it should be — but guess what? Amazon has price limitations for sellers. Nothing over $200, and items “must be over .25”. Hmmm. So, what does a girl do? I want it to be free. And .26 is such an unattractive number. Making it .50 would just feel wrong; I’m (obviously) not doing this for the money. I played with it for a bit, seeing if I could trick it… and finally spoofed it with .25 as the price. Would you pay a quarter for carefully researched, CDC current safer sex info on your Kindle? Who knows, but it sure is fun to play with this…
Let’s see if they accept it. Hee!
Update: YAY! The “modern safer sex guide” is on Kindle for a quarter!!!! No description yet, but that took a day on my other books, too… :D
And, some people really, really love their Kindles. I had no idea there was any “backlash” about it… Anonymous email:
> You need to play with mine. Don’t be taken in by the Cory Doctorow
fear mongerers. It’s quite possibly the coolest thing I’ve ever owned
as a reader. A quarter is a no brainer since all the purchases are one
clickers. My first 4 books were out of print editions that I’ve been
trying to track down for over a year with no luck and I paid an
average of $5 each. It’s like magic I tell ya! And it’s a breeze to
import Project Gutenberg books so you have about 120k books for free.
This backlash is totally juvenile.
Just my thoughts on it,
