My latest book, listed here, Fixed Price. Similar site to Ebay and it only takes a minute to register as a buyer.

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The response to this book has been disappointing, to say the least. We had fifty copies produced in December 2011. Now, after 7 months, 16 remain. We were required to supply six complimentary copies to the British Library and several more to people who had contributed images.

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Sales eventually picked up slightly and there are now only SEVEN good copies left, plus two with slight printing faults in them. The two with slight printing faults ( 1 page on one and 2 pages on the other),are available at considerably less – details on request. In All Things Floating, I have placed a limited offer for Free Downloads of the manuscript. Several members have taken me up on them and the transfers are now proven to work OK. The free offer will end at 1800bst tonight (Saturday, 29th September, 2012) after which there will be a small nominal charge.

A download is not really as satisfactory as an actual book, as it would cost a fortune to print. so anyone who is interested in the physical book may purchase one from http://www.specialistauctions.com where they will be listed until they are sold out. It is a similar site to Ebay and takes only a minute to register as a buyer. Usual payment methods, Paypal, cards etc. The actual book is professional printed on very high quality 130gsm silk paper.

Here is a direct link to the nautcal page where you will find the book:

**LINK**

Bob

Tony,

I feel that you will find reality very different. A book on carpentry might well be successful, but hardly anyone evens knows what the Merchant Navy is these days. Take my book (above) for instance. I offered it free of charge as a download for a limited time and only had about six people who wanted it! If I had been charging 75p a time, I doubt if anyone would have bought it as a download.

I have tried a Kindle and found it dreadful. Took it back and got a refund. They are too small and too tempremental. Then I tried a Kobo and fed the above book into it in PDF. It came out OK, but again, the pages were too small and all the images were then black and white and it was rather too tedious to bother reading. The Kobo was also tempremental and I took it back, and the shop had the same problem, pages would not turn, downloads took ages, it kept freezing etc and again I got my money back.

As far as I am concerned, nothing can equal a real book for ease of reading. Three months after my last post, I still have seven books left. Again, I will say that the biggest problem is that hardly anyone is intereted in the Merchant Navy and that puts the likes of us at a disadvantage from the start.

Anyway, I wish you well with your e-book.

I do contnue to have successes with e-books, but they are both confined to model shipbuilding, one for steam, one for sail. But neither are suitable for Kindles or Kobos, but can be read or printed on normal PCs. They sell for £12 and £11 respectively, including postage to anywhere in the world. They are not downloadable though. The buyer actually gets a disk!

Bob

PS

I have just looke for your website, but at the moment, the link does not work.   I will try again tomorrow.

Here is a linkt to my two e-books on http://www.specialistauctions.com a similar site to Ebay, but with lower fees:

http://www.specialistauctions.com/categories.php?parent=11090

Hardly anyone leaves feedback on Specialist Auctions, but I have sold over 100 of these disks so far!

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