City of the Dead
posted by Paul McAuley at 2:39 PM
About Me
- Name: Paul McAuley
- Location: United Kingdom
I worked as a research biologist in various universities, including Oxford and UCLA, and for six years was a lecturer in botany at St Andrews University before becoming a full-time writer. My latest novel is In The Mouth of The Whale, published in paperback in October 2012. Some of my fiction and nonfiction is archived on my web site
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9 Comments:
Quickest Amazon purchase I think I ever made!
Got it from Italy... Gonna read it asap.. ;-)
Hi,
If there is no DRM why I am being forced to "register your device or computer" by Amazon? I have Calibre Reader installed: I do not want to use Kindle for PC.
Alan Poulter
PS why can't I login with my Verisign Open ID? After I give my username I get an error rather than a password request?
It's severely underpriced. Though for those of us who will now have to download Kindle-reading software, the phrase is probably "gateway drug."
Oh man, if I wasn't severely broke I would order it just for the No-DRM!
Also, LOL@ the "gateway drug"
and to Alan, I've found that when using OpenID, at least with my own Wordpress install, you must include a trailing / in the URL (and you can't just use a username, you need to input the URL to your OpenID that Verisign should have provided you with)
Thanks, everyone. Gateway drug or naive experiment? You decide...
Alan, I'm afraid that I'm the wrong person to ask about Verisign, not being a technical kind of guy, but hope saintneko's post was useful. If and when this progresses, I hope to use other platforms, or at least make stuff available in ePub format. Amazon's publishing format is too easy to resist, for an experiment like this (talk of your gateway drug).
According to an email from Amazon asking about "City of the Dead":
"The content sold in Kindle store will be in .azw or .tpz format. We will not be able to provide the content in epub format."
I am afraid I am not willing to pay for content that is DRM'd.
Any chance of your other books getting kindle-ized? I'd like to read the confluence series but I live in China now and getting hard copy books is a pain.
(subscribing myself to get updates)
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