Comments on: Amazon, Kindle and Windup Girl in ebook

By: CopyPaste Traffic

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By: Good Sci Fi Books - Page 9 - Fires of Heaven Guild Message Board

Good Sci Fi Books - Page 9 - Fires of Heaven Guild Message Board — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 02:00:47 +0000

[...] The Windup Girl — Think Blade Runner/Altered Carbon Cyberpunk Noir but set in a post-petroleum energy-starved civilization where energy is measured in calories and the world is riven by gene-plagues and other abandoned hazards of a new industrial age that is built upon creating the most energy-efficient foodstuffs to power their economies. It was nominated for the Hugo (it won) and the National Book Award. It's that good. The author of Spin, Robert Charles Wilson also got nominated for his newest post-apocalyptic retro-victorian The Adventures of Julian Comstock. This novel is unique in that it's a post-post-apocalyptic setting. Think along the lines of a hundred years after Mad Max except the folks who rebuilt civilization were crazy fundamentalist christians who based their new society on 1870's America and you're pretty close. [...]

By: What book did you just buy? - Page 41 - Fires of Heaven Guild Message Board

What book did you just buy? - Page 41 - Fires of Heaven Guild Message Board — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 01:45:13 +0000

[...] The Windup Girl Think Blade Runner/Altered Carbon Cyberpunk Noir but set in a post-petroleum energy-starved civilization where energy is measured in calories and the world is riven by gene-plagues and other abandoned hazards of a new industrial age that is built upon creating the most energy-efficient foodstuffs to power their economies. It was nominated for the Hugo (it won) and the National Book Award. It's that good. [...]

By: tom

tom — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 10:48:07 +0000

We should keep focus not on the reader cost but the books. The reader is a minor one time purchase. Overpriced ebooks is where the retailers make money. Why do ebooks cost so much more than the paperback version? Why can I share a paperback book but not an ebook? Until this situation is improved this avid reader is sticking to paper.

By: Loiosh

Loiosh — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:47:33 +0000

I do understand that you offer an ePUB edition, but that is not useful for me as there is not another platform that syncs it across PC, iPhone and iPad and that is how I prefer to do my reading. This is a large concern for me.

By: Loiosh

Loiosh — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:43:38 +0000

Is it too bad that when elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers. I am a large fan of the convenience of having my Kindle. I like having the reading/notes and highlights silently synced from PCs to iPhone to iPad and Kindle. Now that Amazon has switched to the agency model as Apple has, will you be rescinding your hold out on releasing a Kindle version? I’d like to own this book and that is my heavily preferred method of delivery.

By: Gary

Gary — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 01:08:21 +0000

Thanks, Paolo, for making this great book available for my droid. I loved it. I’m heading right over to Webscriptions.net for “Pump Six…” next! For some reason you’ve only materialized for me with this book, although in looking at your stories, I realize I’ve read and loved a number of them including “The Fluted Girl”. Thanks again!

By: Bruce

Bruce — Wed, 19 May 2010 16:58:41 +0000

Well played. Can’t tell you how much I appreciate not only an ebook option, but the tragically uncommon lack of DRM. Got hip to you through BB, spent an hour in a bookstore with Windup Girl – couldn’t pull the $30 for a hardcover, and now don’t have to. Just finished the download from webscriptions. $6 is fair, they have many format options, and now your book is on my phone (android, Aldiko reader, .epub). Even the beautiful cover art made it.

Rock on.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Fri, 14 May 2010 00:21:53 +0000

I appreciate that the book is available somewhere (and I also found this post as a result of a Google search) but I would have still preferred to buy from Amazon.

While I’m generally anti-DRM I like the fact I can download the book to multiple devices and re download whenever I want without having to synch with a computer and copy files. I consider the Amazon DRM scheme similar to that of the game platform Steam where at least I get some benefit as opposed to movie DRM where it just stands in the way of fair use.

Also I dislike having to register with yet another online stores and enter my payment details and keep track of login information just to get a particular book. It’s much simpler to use Amazon which I already use extensively to research and purchase.

By: Paolo

Paolo — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 18:33:13 +0000

Sandy, THE WINDUP GIRL is available in kindle-compatible format at Webscriptions.net. Maybe that wasn’t clear.