As for your suggestion, I think that would have required me to sign up for Kindle Select, which (while maintained) would have given Amazon exclusive rights to distribute any electronic version. That would minimally have meant that the Creative Commons status and my ability to create a free PDF version would have been right out, and at worst would have meant that they could have come after me if my posts here duplicated too much of the book content. I'm not going to be able to offer a paper version anywhere but Amazon, and I don't want this to be totally unavailable to anyone who doesn't patronize Amazon.
Apparently when their algorithm checks the files for acceptability to Kindle (which happens astonishingly fast) it does not look to see if the author is badmouthing Amazon, which I do at least once. Or maybe they just don't care if you grouse about them as long as you keep buying and selling through them.
Not sure when I can work on a paperback version. I suddenly woke up after two weeks of spending lots of time on this and realized I had real-world deadlines coming at me like a freight train....
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As for your suggestion, I think that would have required me to sign up for Kindle Select, which (while maintained) would have given Amazon exclusive rights to distribute any electronic version. That would minimally have meant that the Creative Commons status and my ability to create a free PDF version would have been right out, and at worst would have meant that they could have come after me if my posts here duplicated too much of the book content. I'm not going to be able to offer a paper version anywhere but Amazon, and I don't want this to be totally unavailable to anyone who doesn't patronize Amazon.
Apparently when their algorithm checks the files for acceptability to Kindle (which happens astonishingly fast) it does not look to see if the author is badmouthing Amazon, which I do at least once. Or maybe they just don't care if you grouse about them as long as you keep buying and selling through them.
Not sure when I can work on a paperback version. I suddenly woke up after two weeks of spending lots of time on this and realized I had real-world deadlines coming at me like a freight train....