So a couple of weeks ago, someone (can’t remember who, now) told me that he had downloaded a digital version of my book at Amazon, and I was like “Get. Out.” I didn’t even know there WAS a digital version of my book. (My publisher and I don’t communicate very well anyway.) First chance I got, I went to Amazon and dug around for it, but couldn’t find it. Must of been a different book, I thought.
So today, when I just 1-clicked a future copy of Jonathan Zittrain’s The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It, guess what popped up on the next screen:
Holy game changer, Blogman! “Search and annotate every page from any computer”??? Publishing 2.0 brain thinking first, interestingly, “Format? File size? Online only?” with publishing 1.0 brain not far behind, as in “Copyable? Royalty?” So of course, I 1-click my own book, flush with anticipation to see what this might look like and what it might mean, when what do you think appears?
Dang.
So I’m wondering if there’s anyone out there who actually has a digital copy of the book and would be willing to fill me in on what that might be like since, as usual, I’m looking like the last to know…
I wonder if it was with that new Kindle! I’ve heard quite a bit about that with many local teachers (and see it being advertised all over). I will be curious if anyone does have it, what they think about it. Interesting. I unfortunately am not that tech savvy….yet.
It wouldn’t be an example of the this rather sneaky way of reading Amazon books for free, would it?
If you “Search inside this book” with, say, “blog” as a search term for your book, that would bring up most of the pages of the book. Rather laborious way of reading a book, though.
I’m afraid to tell you this, since I use your book in my education class (see blogspot above), but check this out…
http://books.google.com/books?id=tnBReFo5n_YC&dq=&pg=PP1&ots=8QkFlfLzRj&sig=Zooq0_4ihRQkuNmT0J2HuD3V4bo&prev=http://www.google.com/search%3Fhl%3Den%26q%3D%2522blogs%252C%2Bwikis%252C%2BPodcasts%252C%2Band%2Bother%2Bpowerful%2BWeb%2Btools%2Bfor%2BClassrooms%2522%2522%26btnG%3DSearch&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title#PPA46,M1
Sorry – the link didn’t work in my comment:
http://www.nettle.com/archives/000062.html
So this would be how to get the missing pages (pp 10-34) from Google Book Search (as demonstrated by Robert Lewis above) – if you were determined to cheat the copyright-holder out of his well-deserved royalties …
I actually purchased and have accessed the digital copy of your book through Amazon. It was quite helpful to me.