Encouraging the Kindle Phenomenon

The physical version of my book is now available for pre-order on Amazon, but they don’t have the Kindle edition. Being the Kindle-loving geek/nerd that I am, I’m trying to get the Kindle edition up as well, so I’d love it if people would help me by going to the Amazon page for How To Castrate A Bull: Unexpected Lessons on Risk, Growth, and Success in Business and clicking on the link that says, “Please tell the publisher I’d like to read this book on Kindle.” It’s on the left side, just below the picture of the front cover.

There’s even a link to read a random page. I wonder if anyone has written a script to click a bazillion times and download whole books for free? You can also do searches. (I recommend “thud” or “testicles”.)

Comments

[Greg Schulz]

Dave congratulations on your new book and trying to get yours kindled before the physical version is released in January. It looks to be about the same time as when my new book "The Green and Virtual Data Center" (Auerbach), also orderable now on Amazon.com, will also be released.

Some publishers are more aggressive on doing the digital versions before physical release, some less so and have conversations with my publisher on the topic. On my 1st book "Resilient Storage Networks" (Elsevier) there was a bit of a lag for the digital (pre-kindle) version, then followed by the kindle version.

Here's to hoping that both of our new books can get kindled (and not on an open fire) sooner vs. later.

Cheers
Greg Schulz

[GoodOld Days]

I was thinking of writing a book called "One Crazy Night at the Flying Pig". Got any stories you care to share?

[Jason Ledbetter]

As a Kindle user and NTAP employee, I happily clicked this link for you (and me).

-jbl

[Paul Hargreaves]

Please ask your publisher to get it on O'Rielly's Safari Books Online since then I can read it on my Kindle mk 2, the iPhone :-)

[Ernie Bokkelkamp]

I hate to disagree with all of you. I prefer the real paper format as this will survive much longer then the electronic copy. ;-)