{"id":181,"date":"2008-11-26T14:47:48","date_gmt":"2008-11-26T19:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/mojo\/?p=181"},"modified":"2025-08-01T02:23:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T07:23:15","slug":"make-it-easy-on-the-customer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/make-it-easy-on-the-customer\/","title":{"rendered":"Make it easy on the customer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Hole-Aaron-Ross-Powell\/dp\/1934861782\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a book I really really really want to read<\/a>.  However, it&#8217;s only available in e-format 2 ways:  Serialized on the author&#8217;s blog (i.e., on the computer\u2014no thanks) and via Kindle (no thanks).  Now, I&#8217;m getting ready to email him and ask him if it&#8217;s available any other way, so we shall see.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s <strike>another book I really really really want to read<\/strike> [dead link].  However, it&#8217;s only available in 4 formats (actually, 3 because 2 formats are identical in nature), none of which I can read on my ebook reader.  The format I want is MS Reader (LIT).  Why?  Because I can break the DRM and put it on my ebook reader.  Which, come to think of it, is probably why it&#8217;s not offered in that format.<\/p>\n<p>Really, there&#8217;s enough <em>good<\/em> stuff out there in more accessible formats to waste time having to read on the computer. After having had my <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mobileread.com\/wiki\/EBookwise-1150\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">eBookWise<\/a> for a mere 7 months, I&#8217;ve gotten to where I <em>will<\/em> forgo a title (no matter how badly I want to read it) if I can&#8217;t get it in a format that is accessible to me.  Otherwise, I&#8217;ll just go to the library, where it likely won&#8217;t be.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re really trying to put <a href=\"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/thebooks\/theproviso\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>The Proviso<\/em><\/a> in as many places as possible in as many formats as we can.  It&#8217;s not just in the B10 Mediaworx bookstore (8 DRM-LESS formats bundled together in a zip), but <strike>at Amazon in both trade paperback and Kindle, at Barnes &#038; Noble, at Books-A-Million, at Powell&#8217;s, and now at ebooksjustpublished<\/strike> [out of print] (which takes you back to the B10 Mediaworx bookstore, but hey, it&#8217;s exposure).<\/p>\n<p>Some time next week, <em>The Proviso<\/em> will be in the iTunes store as an iApp for iTouch\/iPhone.  Although we&#8217;ve formatted it into EPUB for those who&#8217;ve downloaded Stanza on their iTouch\/iPhones, we really want to present as many options as possible to make it easy for every customer to read it the way they prefer to read it.<\/p>\n<p>Because not being able to read a book I want to read the way I want to read it is beginning to weary me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a book I really really really want to read. However, it&#8217;s only available in e-format 2 ways: Serialized on the author&#8217;s blog (i.e., on the computer\u2014no thanks) and via Kindle (no thanks). Now, I&#8217;m getting ready to email him and ask him if it&#8217;s available any other way, so we shall see. There&#8217;s another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[544,546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookselling","category-marketing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13924,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions\/13924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}