The New Improved Dodo

So, after a month of being available to download for free my ebook now costs actual money. Obviously having given it away for so long I will never again be able to persuade anyone to part with cold hard cash for it.

Or will I?

Today sees the launch of a brand new edition of 21st Century Dodos on ebook. It costs a whopping 99p and has lots* of exciting** extra content.

It also has a swanky new cover which is, I am sure you'll agree, rather blue. I hope you like blue.

I have been sharing stats on the free ebook experiment for a few weeks and you can see all the posts on that subject here. Suffice to say it led to shitloads of downloads, increased sales of the print edition, many more Amazon and GoodReads reviews and a boost to sales of my other book.

In the little over a week since it went from FREE to 99p it has sold close to 100 copies, so sales post-offer are much higher than before. This is all good stuff.

The renewed interest also means that we will be publishing a paperback edition next Christmas. And that is effectively what we are unleashing now as an ebook, a revised and updated version. How revised and updated? Oh, just you wait...

• A Readers' Dodos section in which readers of the book have suggested new entries to our list of endangered inanimate objects.
• Updated entries. I added a handful of footnotes where there was news or something to add about any of the entries. No need to thank me, it wasn't much trouble.
• A brand new introduction which sort of does what the old introduction did but with different words.
• A revised running order. I swapped some of the chapters around.

Pretty compelling stuff, eh? I bet you want to download it all over again.

If you already own the ebook and want to update your version then it is pretty easy on every device except for Kindle. Most devices will either automatically update it or allow you to delete and download it again for free. Kindle users will have to contact customer services and ask them to update it for them.

Or you can just ask me and I'll send you the file.

And if you don't already own it then get your finger out and order a copy now!

*some

**well, it may be exciting if you have a really boring life

Comments

[Wendy V]

I have the original hardback, which I love, but it just dawned on me I can now download e-books on my iPhone and get the update. I'm such a luddite, assuming I need a Kindle!

I'm thrilled to see my contribution about bubble cars made the cut in the readers' dodos section! Hurrah!