An electronic version of Creating Interactive Fiction with Inform 7 is now available on the Amazon Kindle store. Many people might not be aware that you no longer need a Kindle to read Amazon e-books: they have reader software for many platforms including the iPhone and iPod, BlackBerry, Android, Windows, and Mac, with your reading automatically synced up across any of those devices you own. I've previewed this e-version of the book on a Kindle DX, and it looks very nice-- tables and diagrams are all preserved, as well of course as all the original text. (One issue to note for those with accessibility concerns is that most of the tables seem to have been converted to a graphical format. The book is not too heavy on tables-- a couple per chapter-- but there will be some information missed out on if you're using a screen reader.)The book is also available electronically from Safari Books Online and eBooks.com in various formats.
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The Kindle book isn't available to UK customers though :( "This title is not available for customers from:
United Kingdom". I don't know how many other parts of the world are affected.
I'll look into the other ebook options, but I had hoped to be able to buy this simply as a Kindle book.
Well I nearly bought it from eBooks.com, but I want to read it on both the Kindle app on my Mac laptop, and on my iPod touch. A single Kindle purchase would sort that out. But not this. So I'm going to wait, and hope it is available on Kindle more widely.
I have the paper copy, but struggle somewhat with it for disability reasons. A Kindle version available for me to buy would be brill.
Vivienne-- sorry to hear it's not available for the Kindle internationally, I wasn't aware of that. Here's a list my publisher provided of e-book retailers they work with. The book should be available from all of them within the next few days:
Safari Books Online
ebrary
Books 24x7
NetLibrary
ebooks Corporation
Barnes & Noble Nook
Amazon Kindle
Entourage
Hopefully one of these groups will have it available both for your region and in a format that works for you.
Thanks Aaron. eBooks.com would already sell it to me (well I got as far as the payment page before bailing out), but in a single format per device, and I can't see the other non-Kindle options being any better. Kindle would be so much better: a single purchase allowing me to read the ebook on mutiple devices. Could you ask the publishers if the Kindle version will be made available to buy internationally? We can buy hundreds of thousands of Kindle books in the UK from Amazon, and I can't see any big obstacle stopping this ebook being available too.
Let me second that request -- it seems to me that the Kindle edition not being available internationally is a simple oversight by the publisher. They did allow worldwide sales on some of the other e-book shops, after all, and Amazon also makes it very easy to do so.
Being able to read the book on multiple devices is a huge selling point for me as well, not to mention the fact that Amazon's price for the book is significantly lower than the others.
You can by-pass the location issue to work in the UK by changing your kindle settings on the Amazon website to an American address, buying the ebook, then changing it back to your regular UK address. I did it earlier today.
Interesting. I'm looking over the options available; it looks like they might be more usable than I feared.
Still researching the options. Right now, I've ruled out Kindle, as although there is a PC reader, it does not permit copy and paste.
Safari Books and eBooks corp look like the two stronger options at this point in time.
This is somewhat unfortunate, given how much more cost effective the kindle version is, but I am not comfortable with the closed off manner Kindle books are handled.
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