{"id":2092,"date":"2012-10-03T08:09:40","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T15:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=2092"},"modified":"2012-10-03T08:09:40","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T15:09:40","slug":"technical-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=2092","title":{"rendered":"Technical Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the first day of my launch promotion, <em>The Millennial Sword<\/em> was downloaded 369 times. If the numbers continue at this rate, I&#8217;ll get over a thousand downloads before the free period ends on Friday. If even half of those people (500) actually read it&#8212;and half of <em>those<\/em> (250) like it&#8212;and half of the ones who like it (125) tell their friends&#8230;then I will consider the promotion a great success.<\/p>\n<p>Most of what I&#8217;ve read about indie publishing suggests that books with 15 or more Amazon reviews get a lot more traffic. I think this has to do with Amazon&#8217;s search algorithms and the way that they promote material on their site. But I have to remind myself not to be impatient for Amazon reviews: people need time to actually <em>read<\/em> the thing, after all! <\/p>\n<p>A couple of technical notes: some people in the UK had trouble getting the download. The link for our cousins across the pond is: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/The-Millennial-Sword-ebook\/dp\/B009JW9K4M\/\ufeff\">http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/The-Millennial-Sword-ebook\/dp\/B009JW9K4M\/\ufeff<\/a>. That should let you grab the book without any problems.<\/p>\n<p>ALSO, while the Nook version of the book won&#8217;t be out for a few months, I wanted to let Nook owners know that there are free programs that can convert between e-book formats. <a href=\"http:\/\/calibre-ebook.com\/\">Calibre<\/a> seems to be one of the most popular. I would expect the formatting might not be perfect after an automated conversion, but if folks with the various non-Kindle e-readers want to grab the novel while it&#8217;s free, Calibre might be a good option for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the first day of my launch promotion, The Millennial Sword was downloaded 369 times. If the numbers continue at this rate, I&#8217;ll get over a thousand downloads before the free period ends on Friday. If even half of those people (500) actually read it&#8212;and half of those (250) like it&#8212;and half of the ones [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2093,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092\/revisions\/2093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}