Rekrab
Usually wrong.
Okay, so this post is sort of about Bukowski and I put it in the "All things *not* Bukowski" thread because it's a shameless self-promotion of a self-published ebook, and this seems like the right place to put it.
I've been experimenting with getting some of my texts into Kindle form and couldn't resist making an ebook edition of my short memoir about Charles Bukowski, who I met and interacted with (disastrously) as a college student. The title of this ill-considered effort of cheap sensationalism is "Charles Bukowski Spit In My Face." The cover looks like this (and the drawing in the Kindle version is much higher resolution than any of the print edition covers):
This Kindle "book" (well, digitized text in a downloadable file for reading on electronic devices) sells for a mere 99 cents.
My official description on Amazon:
David Barker's notorious memoir about his run-in with legendary Los Angeles underground poet, Charles Bukowski, in the early 1970s. Originally published as a chapbook in 1982, this Kindle edition includes the prefaces to the second and third editions.
You can buy it here:
http://amzn.com/B005TMN3W6
Surprising facts that I learned in the process:
Kindle ebooks have no back covers. Or spines.
Everything you download is viewable only in grayscale. The color cover images stay on Amazon. The cover in the book file is strictly B&W.
They have no page numbers.
The font size is something I can't control (apparently). It is whatever Amazon wants it to be.
I also have three horror short stories available as Kindle books and will be converting other texts into ebooks as long as my proofreading-weary eyes hold up.
I've been experimenting with getting some of my texts into Kindle form and couldn't resist making an ebook edition of my short memoir about Charles Bukowski, who I met and interacted with (disastrously) as a college student. The title of this ill-considered effort of cheap sensationalism is "Charles Bukowski Spit In My Face." The cover looks like this (and the drawing in the Kindle version is much higher resolution than any of the print edition covers):
This Kindle "book" (well, digitized text in a downloadable file for reading on electronic devices) sells for a mere 99 cents.
My official description on Amazon:
David Barker's notorious memoir about his run-in with legendary Los Angeles underground poet, Charles Bukowski, in the early 1970s. Originally published as a chapbook in 1982, this Kindle edition includes the prefaces to the second and third editions.
You can buy it here:
http://amzn.com/B005TMN3W6
Surprising facts that I learned in the process:
Kindle ebooks have no back covers. Or spines.
Everything you download is viewable only in grayscale. The color cover images stay on Amazon. The cover in the book file is strictly B&W.
They have no page numbers.
The font size is something I can't control (apparently). It is whatever Amazon wants it to be.
I also have three horror short stories available as Kindle books and will be converting other texts into ebooks as long as my proofreading-weary eyes hold up.
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