THE MVP eBook sent! Amazon soon! Nook soon!
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Junkies, if you ordered THE MVP between Feb. 1, 2012 to Sept. 5, 2012, you have been emailed a link for your free eBook version of the same title. Click it, download it, enjoy it. We wanted to make sure the pre-order customers got the book first, so they wouldn't be tempted to buy it and get it before we sent the free copy (we wants your moneis, but not all your monies).
BUY IT RIGHT NOW FROM US!
Just click on the eBook image at right, then buy that DRM-free eBook for all formats (.mobi for Kindle, ePub for most other eReaders). And remember, when you buy an eBook directly from us, if somewhere down the road you switch eBook readers (say, from Kindle to Nook), you can come back to this site and download the book in the new format, for free.
BREAKDOWN OF RELEASE DATES ON EBOOK STORES:
We've uploaded to all vendors. Now, you just have to wait for the vendors themselves to process the book and put it in their stores. We have no control over this part.
• Amazon Kindle: 24-48 hours
• Nook: 24 hours to two weeks
• iTunes: 24 hours to two weeks
• Sony eReader: three weeks
As soon as all of these links are live, we will post them on THE MVP product page and announce it here, Facebook, at G+, on Twitter, in our newsletter, etc.
DON'T FORGET THOSE REVIEWS!
When you finish that eBook, remember that great reviews at Amazon, Goodreads and Barnes & Noble really help the cause. Customer book reviews sell books, folks, so if you enjoy it, share that news with others.
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Now that it has arrived (and since it wasn't available on B&N yet), I walked over to Rite Aid (not far, 2 miles) and purchased a Green Dot Visa Debit Card, loading $20 dollars on there (minimum needed). Walked back home to find my internet shut off (damn bills). Solution? Drive the Jeep over to the nearest Wifi Hotspot (happens to be Market Basket). Sit down in the Market Basket Cafe with the laptop, register my card on Green Dot website, purchase the book from Sigler Store and upload onto Nook Tablet (making sure to grab some grocery store sushi before departing the store, yumm).
Now that my mind is at ease and I have the book, I find that I don't want to read it. Why? Because if I read it, then its done, and if its done, then I have to start waiting again. So I am only on Chapter 2, slowly absorbing every tasty word that my brain processes into a single distinct element until they are combined into a sentence, and then my brain processes such sentence.
What I would like is this - could a faithful junkie, or the FDØ himself, please reply with an update on the "future works" of Scott Sigler? I am not expecting anything soon, nor am I being impatient - just looking for an update on "Pandemic" and its release date or what the plan is after The MVP cloud settles.
*Proud member of GirlCo and The Gutter Sisteren. The CBBC Crack Mamma*
eBooks are not perfect. But in a situation like this, it's pretty cool. I get to keep the actual book all nice and pristine and read the book on my cell phone as time permits.
Also, the reader app I'm using has text to speech. The text to speech is crappy to be sure, but it's still pretty awesome to me. I've listened to Scott read all the other GFL stories so it's not hard for me to mentally replace the lame emotionless voice with Scott's more impassioned, correctly pronounced version.
I'm going to be looking for a better ebook reader app in the future, and a more configurable text to speech thingie. It probably doesn't exist yet, but I'm going to be persistent until someone else writes it or I manage to write my own. Main missing feature: spell checkers always let you add words. You should be able to add custom pronunciations to the Text to speech in a similar fashion. It wouldn't even be that hard. You just need a special screen where you can instruct the text to speech that every time it sees the string "<string>", it should pronounce it as if it were the string "<new-string>". For exmple, text to speech, every time you see "Ionath", read it as if it were "I-onath".
After that, the next-next feature would be some sort of extension to the eBook file format to allow the inclusion of custom pronunciation guides specific to a given book.
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