Warriors of Scorpio, the third book in the Saga of Dray Prescot of Antares, by Alan Burt Akers, is now published and available from mobipocket.com. It will be available from other retailers over the next couple of weeks.
Here is the blurb:
Once again in the grip of the Star Lords of the Constellation Scorpio, Dray Prescot finds himself torn from the battles of the Inner Sea for a mission in the air. For it was now his mission to carry his beloved Delia by airboat to that far kingdom, Vallia, from whence she had come. But the route lay across the gaunt mountains and the shadowy jungles of the Hostile Territories — and there Dray was to be plunged among stranger peoples and more fantastic challenges than even his Kregen princess had known.
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Fictionwise have discounted The Call of the Sword by Roger Taylor by 60%, so it is available for $2 (or even less if you are a Buywise member). This is another golden opportunity for anyone who has not had the pleasure of reading a Roger Taylor novel to give it a try.
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Just a quick note to let you know that the eBookwise 1150 Reading Device offer has been extended to 15 December.
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After writing yesterday’s post I noticed on the Fictionwise site that Mushroom eBooks titles are marked “Printing Disabled”. I have made enquiries and will report back as soon as I get an answer. In the meantime, it seems that you are limited to eBookAd.com or Cyberread.com for printable PDFs.
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We are often asked how to print an eBook. Well here is my attempt at an answer:
You are normally only able to print a PDF file, assuming that printing is not disabled (see below). All the other eBook formats cannot be printed. If you buy your book from somewhere like Fictionwise or eBookAd, you buy the title rather than the format (there is no DRM), which means that you can download any or all of the formats you want at any time. So for one price you can download, say, the Mobipocket to read on your PDA, and the Adobe PDF version to print. If you then decide to buy a new ebook reading device, even years later, you should be able to download the correct files for it from your bookshelf. Fictionwise, especially, will almost certainly support new formats as they are introduced (although the desire is to have less formats rather than more, so roll on the ubiquitous, non-proprietary, universal ebook format).
However, if the PDF file has any kind of DRM (Digital Rights Management) it is likely that printing is disallowed or limited in some way (for example, you can only print 10 pages per day). So if you buy one of our PDFs from Amazon, eBooks.com, or other eBook retailers that sell DRM’d books, it is unlikely that you will be able to print it.
It is worth pointing out that an eBook is meant to be read on a screen of some description, and not printed. It kind of defeats many of the reasons for eBooks, such as saving paper (and trees and forests), or searchability, or adjustable fonts…
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The eBookwise-1150 is on special offer at eBookwise.com until 11th December. If you are after a dedicated eBook reader, now is the time to buy one. The price is only $99.95 (plus $9.95 shipping). It is not available outside of the USA and Canada, which is a big shame. All of the Mushroom eBooks titles are available for the eBookwise device — if you can’t get them direct from the eBookwise.com site, just choose the Rocket (.rb) format from other sites, such as eBookAd.com and Cyberread.com, because they will work fine.
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The Mushroom eBooks Blog has moved to WordPress from Blogger. We were having too many problems with Blogger and WordPress came highly recommended. It took a while to set up, but I think the basics are working well now. It will allow quite a bit more functionality and I will keep you posted as new features are added.
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If you buy The Call of the Sword by Roger Taylor at eReader.com, you will receive the second book, The Fall of Fyorlund, for free. These books are the first two in the epic twelve book series set in the Hawklan universe. The first four books make up the “Chronicles of Hawklan”, the next seven books are independent novels set in the world of Hawklan, and book twelve is The Return of the Sword, which brings the previous eleven books together to a climax. Highly recommended for all epic fantasy and adventure fans, though I say so myself (I am the publisher, so I am biased, but I am right!).
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eReader.com are offering all three Egyptian novels (Hatshepsut, Akhenaten, and Tutankhamun) at a special price, and at an even more special bundle price. I don’t know how long the offer will last. You will need to sign in and then view the New Releases Newsletter to see the offer.
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I am so pleased that our titles are now available at eReader.com. It is probably the biggest and busiest eBook retailer, and will give much more exposure to our talented authors and their books. If you use a PDA and are not yet a member of eReader.com, I recommend that you join. They have some good offers if you subscribe to their newsletters, and they have the most user friendly DRM of all (it is linked to the purchaser rather than the device, and you will hardly notice it is there at all).
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I am delighted to announce that after long and exhausting negotiations, we have obtained the rights to publish the first twelve Dray Prescot novels. These are excellent 1970s science fiction / fantasy novels that have a massive cult following and are ever popular and timeless.
I am further delighted that the first two in the series, Transit to Scorpio and The Suns of Scorpio, are already available. Click on over to to the Akers page. Enjoy!
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Some of our titles will be appearing in paperback over the next few weeks. Most of Moyra Caldecott’s books will be made available as paperbacks first. Indeed, some of them have been available in print form from Bladud Books (an imprint of Mushroom Publishing) for a while already, and it is their success that has encouraged us to do more.
The titles available so far are all four titles in the Egyptian series – Hatshepsut: Daughter of Amun, Akhenaten: Son of the Sun, Tutankhamun and the Daughter of Ra, and The Ghost of Akhenaten. Other titles that were published simultaneously as eBooks and paperbacks are The Anxiety Relief Program by Dennis Radha-Rose and The War Comes to Witham Street by Jean Grundy Fanelli.
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