Happy Customer
Someone likes my books!
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Today I tried to publish a Japanese version of Treasure Island using KDP’s new beta program for publishing print on demand books. They have 33 languages you can choose as the book’s primary language. Japanese isn’t one of them. But if you want to publish a book in Manx or Eastern Frisian, try KDP!
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TI 2
I Re-released the Treasure Island book as a test. Since Amazon’s “customer service” people refuse to answer questions, I have to conduct tests on my own.
Last time, when I released the book I clicked to port it over to KDI. Part of the process was answering the question “Is the content of your book 70% or more from public domain materials?” I answered truthfully. BIG mistake!! It caused my book to be disappeared right away just before Christmas. I’m sure I lost several hundred dollars because I clicked that button. This test is to see if they will make this book disappear and if so how quickly.
I made a few changes. While working on the Japanese edition I noticed I had doubles of one annotation and that I should have written an annotation about one of the characters. A couple other small improvements were also made.
If you would like a copy, you click on this LINK.
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Frankenstein 1818
At some point this year I’ll put out an 1818 version of Frankenstein. I got permission from an artist to use some illustrations he made about 10 years ago. The artist has done a little work for Marvel Comics, so a bit exciting for me.
Next year there will be a major studio movie of Frankenstein as part of their Universal Monsters reboot. A series of different movies will be released starting this year with Tom Cruise starring in The Mummy.
I’m also working on other projects. I’m working on a large type version of my Treasure Island book. I am REALLY surprised how many pages get added when you change from a font size 12 to 16. It’s added about 200 pages! Work on a Japanese version of Treasure Island is progressing slowly as well.
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From Washington to Trump
With the inauguration of the newest president of the US, I decided to put to together a compilation all the inaugural addresses given by American presidents. Several presidents never gave one, so I also included speeches and remarks given by vice-presidents when they became president due to the death or resignation of the president.
I added pictures of all the presidents and where there was space I added in various photos and illustrations of inauguration ceremonies, old flags, and so on.
If you’d like a copy, please click on this LINK.
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Amazon :(
Amazon’s message to me:
“Our Content Team thoroughly reviewed your content and confirmed that your edition of “Treasure Island” is not distinct enough to be separated from the other public domain editions of “Treasure Island” on Amazon. For this reason, we will uphold their decision to keep them linked.
Additionally, we are unable to provide additional information regarding what classifies a title as being distinct enough to not be a public domain title.”
And with that Amazon effectively killed my book. They threw it into the pile of over 900 other editions of Treasure Island and made it impossible to find unless you search the ISBN. Amazon makes you add original content to a public domain book to publish it, then they throw it into an unsearchable pile of editions that DON’T have original content added. If you ask what their criteria to determine what is “distinct enough” they either completely ignore you or say they can’t tell you. Amazon’s system for dealing with public domain books is complete garbage!
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January 26th News Update
Today\’s update:
* With the inauguration of the new president in America, I decided to make a book with all of the inaugural addresses and speeches made by all U. S. presidents. It\’s almost finished. It should be up on Amazon\’s site in less than a week.
* Sales for my edition of Treasure Island continue to be much better than I was expecting.
* Amazon still keeps trying to make my Treasure Island disappear from their website. Even with all the changes to images and new content I\’ve added, Amazon some how thinks my book is no different from editions that are just text with no illustrations or annotations.
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TI Jail Break
Looks like Amazon finally unlinked my Treasure Island book from the pile. Until now, it was impossible to find it. Hopefully now people will see it and buy a copy. The image below has a link to take you to the CreateSpace eStore if you are interested in buying a copy.
CreateSpace Store Link
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First Book
The first HWC book published is Treasure Island. It was published last month in mid-December. I mixed together over 140 illustrations by three artists, Louis Rhead, Walter Paget, and George Roux. I spent weeks cleaning up the illustrations. Annotations from several editions were added in and then I wrote a further 300 or so for a total of almost 450. An introduction by Robert Lewis Stevenson was included. Oh, I also added a short little essay I found about the basics of sailing a schooner.
I made the mistake of telling Amazon it’s a public domain title, so they threw it into the pile of nearly 1000 other Treasure Island editions and made it nearly impossible to find in a search. In case you don’t know, Amazon creates single pages with hundreds or thousands of editions of a book mixed together. This includes the reviews of all the books included. It doesn’t matter what new images you add, what mix of public domain images included, or how many new and original annotations you write, if the text itself is of a public domain book, Amazon likely will throw your book into one of those piles and make all your hard work disappear.
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