The Augment Saga: Now Wide!
All four books in The Augment Saga are now available from your favourite ebook retailer.
As I mentioned in my most recent writing update blog post, I have been making moves to take my books off of Kindle Unlimited and push them out widely to other ebook stores. This process started with The God Sun, which wasn’t on Kindle Unlimited and was a great way to get all the accounts set up.
And now, happily, the rest of my books have followed suit! The Re-Emergence, From the Grave of the Gods, The Flight of the Aurora, and The Shadow of Arcadia are available from Kobo (and on Kobo Plus), Barnes & Noble, Google Play Books, Apple Books, Smashwords, Everand, Tolino, Vivlio, Gardners, and Fable. They’re also available from the following online library services: Baker & Taylor, Odilo, Palace Marketplace, OverDrive (Libby), and Borrow Box.
And all of this has come with some nifty new Books 2 Read links that conveniently pull all the stores onto one landing page for each book. Check them out by clicking or tapping on the book cover:
Pretty soon they’ll be available on Hoopla and Cloud Library too. As time goes on, I’ll also look at how I can make them available directly on my store, and I’ll be looking into Itch.io.
Of course, all the ebooks are still available to purchase from Amazon, and the print situation remains unchanged.
It hasn’t been all plain sailing, though. While it was super easy to get everything set up on Draft 2 Digital, which handles the vast majority of the stores I listed above, and going direct to Kobo was even simpler, Google Play Books wasn’t.
When you set up as a new author on Google Play Books and try to publish a book, it puts your account into a “preliminary policy review” phase. They say to allow “up to 7 days” for this to clear, at which point all your books are supposed to go live within 12 hours. However, what they really mean is that it takes 7 full working days, and that if the seventh working day falls on a Friday, they take the whole weekend, too. So since adding them to the platform, my books sat in this mandatory limbo for 12 straight days before finally going live today.
It wouldn’t have been a problem but I’ve been waiting for Google Play to finish up before I made this announcement, and my books went live on every other retailer’s site within hours of adding them.
So it’s felt like a very long wait.
Still, the wait is over, and now if you’ve got a Nook, a Kobo (or Kobo Plus subscription), another ebook reader, prefer to read on your tablet or phone; if you read via a library service, or even if you’ve got a Kindle but don’t want to buy from Amazon, there’s an option for you.
I'm really excited by what kind of response this may bring.
