Friday, April 12, 2013

I have recently released two new books, Flight 5 to Johannesburg and British Spy in the Bushveld. The latter had been in work for some time, but was overtaken by the former in the publishing process. I wrote both using iBooks Author, an Apple program specifically for writing, which I have to say I like. What I discovered that I did not like was that when uploading to Apple iBook Store, buyers may only view the books on iPads using iBooks 2.0 or higher. That is too restrictive, so I used another ISBN and created a separate imprint for an e-book that I sell through Amazon Kindle, add to that a third imprint which is the print version that either I sell directly through Kilihune Books or through Amazon. There is a war brewing between at least Amazon and Apple over e-books, Apple through their use of iBooks Author, the format of which may be used for no other e-book platforms and Amazon Kindle with their Kindle Select which purports to offer greater market penetration, but may only be used if there are no other e-book versions.

So that you may recognise the books and rush out and make purchases, here they are:


























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