{"id":457,"date":"2013-02-22T16:34:21","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T16:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcnobbs.co.uk\/?p=457"},"modified":"2023-09-24T22:41:43","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T22:41:43","slug":"updated-ebooks-issued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcnobbs.co.uk\/wp\/updated-ebooks-issued\/","title":{"rendered":"Updated eBooks Issued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/marcnobbs.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/coverlarge-v2-7002.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: right; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"coverlarge v2 700\" border=\"0\" alt=\"coverlarge v2 700\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/marcnobbs.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/coverlarge-v2-700_thumb1.png\" width=\"164\" height=\"244\"\/><\/a>I\u2019ve issued updated versions of the novels <em><a href=\"http:\/\/marcnobbs.co.uk\/novels\/tutelam-venit-book-1-a-good-man\/\">A Good Man<\/a><\/em> and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/marcnobbs.co.uk\/novels\/reunion\/\">Reunion<\/a><\/em> to both Smashwords and Amazon Kindle. The updates consist of formatting updates and minor corrections such as spelling corrections, missing words etc. Both books have new covers too. <em>Reunion<\/em>\u2019s is a complete redesign. <em>A Good <\/em>Man\u2019s has changes to the title layout and the addition of the tag line \u201cA Westmouthshire Novel\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Smashwords users who have purchased wither book and go in to their account and download the updated version at will. I\u2019m not sure how the Kindle account handle updates. A quick google tell me that you either have to request the new version to be sent to your device, or download it manually, or it will be delivered automatically unless you request not to receive it. So it\u2019s anyone\u2019s guess.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019ll probably take Smashwords a while to push the file through to the likes of Kobo and iBooks too, and again, I don\u2019t know how one goes about getting the updated file from those services.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not really terribly helpful. Sorry.<\/p>\n<p>But the important thing is that the books have been updated. Which is a good excuse to read them again, don\u2019t you think?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and <em>A Tortured Soul<\/em> is currently 67,000 words long and reaching the first of two milestones that Paul needs to pass before we reach the book\u2019s conclusion. So I\u2019m kind of happy with that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve issued updated versions of the novels A Good Man and Reunion to both Smashwords and Amazon Kindle. The updates consist of formatting updates and minor corrections such as spelling corrections, missing words etc. Both books have new covers too. Reunion\u2019s is a complete redesign. A Good Man\u2019s has changes to the title layout and the addition of the tag line \u201cA Westmouthshire Novel\u201d. Smashwords users who have purchased wither book and go in to their account and download the updated version at will. I\u2019m not sure how the Kindle account handle updates. A quick google tell me that you either have to request the new version to be sent to your device, or download it manually, or it will be delivered automatically unless you request not to receive it. So it\u2019s anyone\u2019s guess. It\u2019ll probably take Smashwords a while to push the file through to the likes of Kobo and iBooks too, and again, I don\u2019t know how one goes about getting the updated file from those services. That\u2019s not really terribly helpful. Sorry. But the important thing is that the books have been updated. Which is a good excuse to read them again, don\u2019t you think? Oh, and A Tortured Soul is currently 67,000 words long and reaching the first of two milestones that Paul needs to pass before we reach the book\u2019s conclusion. So I\u2019m kind of happy with that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":225744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"templates\/template-full-width.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcnobbs.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcnobbs.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcnobbs.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcnobbs.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcnobbs.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcnobbs.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcnobbs.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcnobbs.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcnobbs.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcnobbs.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}