I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m excited to say that there has been a slight improvement with the iBookstore in that I can actually verify that my books are there. iBookstore is now available in the UK and you can get it on iPhones, and I asked a work colleague to check whether my books were there. They were, and In Heat and In Heat: Mating Call both have five star ratings, which was rather exciting to see!<\/p>\n
It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a shame that my only way of seeing iBookstore is via someone else\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s iPhone if they happen to have the app installed. I still think Apple need to wake up and realise that without a physical website URL we can send readers to, we can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t effectively promote out e-books on the iBookstore. I think the problem stems from the fact that they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re primarily a computer \/ software program sort of company, and don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really have a firm grasp of what it takes to sell books online\u00e2\u20ac\u201dnamely a good website where people can browse the books and decide to buy, and where authors can direct their readers who might be interested in buying their book for a certain platform.<\/p>\n
I would like to see them open a website but I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think it will happen. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m eager to see if my sales have picked up at all since they last sent data to Smashwords back in June. I hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t sold much then. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think that the twenty-something e-books I had sold on iBookstore in two months of my books being available on there could compare at all with the several thousand I sold at Amazon in that same timeframe. <\/p>\n
The reason I asked my work colleague whether he could get the iBookstore on his iPad in the UK (which he then informed me he could get it on his iPhone too) was because a fellow author emailed me, having read my previous blog rant about the iBookstore, asking if anything had changed since I posted it back in April. Nothing has really changed except that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve verified that my paranormal romance books are indeed there, but at least I can tell him that if he has an iPhone or iPad, or knows someone who does, that he can see if his books appear there too when he submits them.<\/p>\n
Does being able to see the books on iBookstore in the UK tempt me to purchase an iPhone or iPad? Not really. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not actually tempted to buy an Amazon Kindle either, although I do use Amazon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Kindle PC program and find it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a good piece of software.<\/p>\n
I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t spend enough time reading to warrant owning an e-reader of any sort. While I have grand designs when it comes to taking breaks and having some reading time, I often end up engaged in something else entirely\u00e2\u20ac\u201dnamely writing, developing websites, or drawing. (or reading manga, but that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a beast of an addiction)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m excited to say that there has been a slight improvement with the iBookstore in that I can actually verify that my books are there. iBookstore is now available in the UK and you can get it on iPhones, and … Continue reading