The Rocketbelt Caper ebook
The Rocketbelt Caper is now available as an ebook. The new US edition of the book will be released as a paperback at the end of next month, but you can download the ebook today in Mobipocket format.
Mobipocket format ebooks can be read on a Windows PC, Windows Mobile, Palm Os, Symbian phone, Blackberry, Pocket-PC, Cybook, iRex, Iliad, and more.
I’m currently working on making the book available in ePub format, compatible with the Sony Reader, and also intend to make the book available on Amazon’s Kindle. I wrote about ebook formats in The Guardian a couple of weeks ago. As I own the digital publishing rights to the book, I’m attempting to blaze something of a solo trail through the world of ebooks, shoehorning my experience of running a publishing company / typesetting books etc into a digital context. I’ll post updates, and possibly some how-to guides, over the next few weeks.
The US edition of The Rocketbelt Caper, released in paperback on 29 June, has a new cover, and very slightly abridged/updated text, and it doesn’t have photos. If you want the colour photos and Frank Dickman’s Building A Rocketbelt essay then you’ll need to get the UK paperback.
UPDATE: The ebook is now available – FREE – in most popular formats here.
