INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (7636,1,'2011-03-05 11:01:59','2011-03-05 11:01:59','<a href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judith-and-the-Holy-Ferns/dp/B004QGYAFU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=digital-text&amp;qid=1299226074&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7588\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"Judith\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Judith-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" /></a>Today Amazon published my first direct from Scrivener-to-Kindle work, a short story set in Rome, though not part of the Costa series, called <em>Judith and the Holy Ferns. </em>I put this up because it\'s an unusual piece of work I\'d quite like to get out there, but also as a test of how easy it is to go from Scrivener 2 to Kindle with no intermediate apps or conversions.\r\n\r\nI\'m also interested in seeing how many people will think it worth reading; you can <a href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judith-and-the-Holy-Ferns/dp/B004QGYAFU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=digital-text&amp;qid=1299226074&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">find it in the UK store here</a> and <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Judith-Holy-Ferns-ebook/dp/B004QGYAFU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;m=A7B2F8DUJ88VZ&amp;s=digital-text&amp;qid=1299226147&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">in the US one here</a>. It\'s priced at £1.14 (99p plus VAT which applies to ebooks, sigh) in the UK, to match my Macmillan short story of a similar length, <em>Dead Men\'s Shoes</em>, and at $1.84 in the US.\r\n\r\nThis is a step-by-step guide detailing how I got this 9000-word story from Scrivener on to Kindle, so that those of you wanting to do the same can see in detail how it happened.\r\n\r\nFirst, watch this video which is produced by the Scrivener people. It begins by describing the process involved in producing an epub ebook, the kind used by iBooks and other places. I haven\'t put this work up on iBooks; to do it directly demands you get an ISBN, which is a pain frankly, and overkill for a 99p short story, nor do I have the time right now to deal with iBook aggregators. Besides, I think Kindle wipes the floor with every other ebook delivery system. It\'s quick, easy and very, very popular.  The process for getting a Kindle file follows the epub pattern in the video. Part way through you will see how to choose Kindle over epub.\r\n\r\n[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cgJ8x-R86M[/youtube]\r\n\r\nTo go further you will need to be signed up for Kindle Digital Publishing and to have <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&amp;docId=1000234621\" target=\"_blank\">downloaded the KindleGen plugin and the Kindle Previewer here.</a> Note: it only works on Intel Macs running 10.5 or higher. So Tiger users won\'t be able to take advantage of it (this is an Amazon limitation, not a Scrivener one).\r\n\r\nAll done? Next, get yourself a cover, a jpeg 600 x 800 at 72 dpi. It will appear on Kindle hardware in black and white, but not everyone uses Kindle hardware. Kindle apps are very popular too. So my advice is: choose a cover that\'s colour and will work in both. The Kindle Previewer will show you what it looks like in black and white.\r\n\r\nMy cover for <em>Judith and the Holy Ferns</em> is light and minimal and self-produced. Flashy cover designs are essential in paper book publishing where they are used to generate advance sales from retailers among other things. I\'m not entirely convinced they are so high on the buy/don\'t buy process in epublishing, but that\'s a discussion for another time. This is a 99p short story. I\'m not forking out $1000 for a commercial book cover.\r\n\r\nWhen you have a suitable jpeg drag it somewhere into the Binder in your Scrivener project so that it sits as a separate file like this. This is important. You can\'t import that cover into your final Kindle file if it\'s outside Scrivener.\r\n\r\nNow go to the Compile option in the File Menu.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Contents1.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7616\" title=\"Contents\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Contents1-640x600.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"595\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWe will be running down the list of processes on the left and dealing with the options as they go. The first is obvious -- contents. This will determine the text elements in the manuscript you want to go into the finished book. There are just three chapters in this short story, each with names and manual chapter numbers. So I don\'t need to worry about auto chapter numbering (which is possible and the video shows how). I just tick the chapters I want to include.\r\n\r\nNext comes formatting.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Formatting1.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7617\" title=\"Formatting\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Formatting1-640x599.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"594\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis isn\'t text and font size -- Kindle takes care of that for you. This is to do with how chapter headings are dealt with. If your book is hierarchical -- parts and chapters, for example -- this is where you dictate that those headings are different to the body text. I only have Level 1 text documents in here -- the third option. So while the others are ticked they won\'t have any effect. I\'ve changed the header setting to Heading 3 (just put your cursor next to title) to make it bigger than the body text and on the right I\'ve inserted Page padding of eight lines. This will make new chapters start a little way down the page, something that\'s becoming popular in ebook formatting.\r\n\r\nProcessing options...\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Processing.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7602\" title=\"Processing\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Processing-640x533.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"528\" /></a>\r\n\r\nBy clicking \'Do not add page padding to the first document\' I make sure the first chapter of the book starts at the top of the page, which I prefer. This is just personal taste. I don\'t need to do anything with the other options.\r\n\r\nSeparators...\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Separators.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7603\" title=\"Separators\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Separators-640x598.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"593\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis threw me at first and caused my one hiccup. I had the text set to break to a new line between sections. In order to generate proper chapter headings and a table of contents (and Kindle likes TOCs, even for small documents) you need to separate everything with a section break. Otherwise you will get nagged for not having a TOC.\r\n\r\nCover... just pick the jpeg you already have in your Scrivener binder which will appear as an option in the popup.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Cover2.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7605\" title=\"Cover2\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Cover2-640x533.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"528\" /></a>\r\n\r\nE-Book options... these will give you a TOC that Kindle will like.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Ebook-options.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7606\" title=\"Ebook options\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Ebook-options-640x526.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"521\" /></a>\r\n\r\nText Options...\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Text-options.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7607\" title=\"Text options\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Text-options-640x531.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"526\" /></a>\r\n\r\nYou can clean up text if you want here -- I don\'t need to.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/html-options.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7608\" title=\"html options\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/html-options-640x596.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"591\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis doesn\'t apply to a short story with no internal links, but I left it selected anyway. But if you use internal wiki-like links in Scrivener this will recreate them in the Kindle document, which could be useful for non-fiction projects.\r\n\r\nFinally, as far as a modest project like this is concerned... Meta-Data.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Metadata.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7609\" title=\"Metadata\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Metadata-640x597.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"592\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis is where you deal with title, publisher and author information. That\'s all you need enter really as far as I can see -- forget about ID numbers and dates. I suspect something ought to be entered under Rights but I don\'t know what and Kindle DRMs the files anyway so it doesn\'t much bother me.\r\n\r\nOne caveat. Kindle demands you put in the author as Last name, First name. The current release version of Scrivener isn\'t happy with this and recognises it as two authors. At the time of writing, early March 2011, you need to download the latest Scrivener beta to get this working properly. <a href=\"http://www.literatureandlatte.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&amp;t=11692\" target=\"_blank\">You can find it here</a>. After that type in Last name, First name and it will work.\r\n\r\nThe final option is simply a link to where the KindleGen plugin is kept on your Mac. The other options can be left for me. After that click Compile and check your output in Kindle Viewer (and a Kindle app too). When you\'re happy with it upload to Kindle Digital Publishing and wait for it to go public after it\'s approved.\r\n\r\nThis is a simple process for a fairly simple short story. Anyone with hierarchical novels, in folders or as sub documents, should take care to get those options right in the Formatting section and to check that the separators are working fine too.\r\n\r\nOnce you have a working system you can save it in the Compile window and simply reload the settings for another publication later. This is getting as close to an automated ebook process as I can imagine right now, and is <em>much</em> slicker than anything that I\'ve seen before for Kindle publication. One more amazing facet in the amazing piece of software that\'s Scrivener.\r\n\r\nBefore long I hope to show you something from this that is rather more complex. But it will require some editing first.\r\n\r\nOh, and do remember. This is processing, not writing. It\'s important, but not as important as the words themselves.','From Scrivener to Kindle step-by-step','','inherit','open','open','','7583-revision-3','','','2011-03-05 11:01:59','2011-03-05 11:01:59','',7583,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7583-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(7638,1,'2011-03-05 11:04:07','2011-03-05 11:04:07','<a href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judith-and-the-Holy-Ferns/dp/B004QGYAFU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=digital-text&amp;qid=1299226074&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7588\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"Judith\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Judith-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" /></a>Today Amazon published my first direct from Scrivener-to-Kindle work, a short story set in Rome, though not part of the Costa series, called <em>Judith and the Holy Ferns. </em>I put this up because it\'s an unusual piece of work I\'d quite like to get out there, but also as a test of how easy it is to go from Scrivener 2 to Kindle with no intermediate apps or conversions.\r\n\r\nI\'m also interested in seeing how many people will think it worth reading; you can <a href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judith-and-the-Holy-Ferns/dp/B004QGYAFU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=digital-text&amp;qid=1299226074&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">find it in the UK store here</a> and <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Judith-Holy-Ferns-ebook/dp/B004QGYAFU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;m=A7B2F8DUJ88VZ&amp;s=digital-text&amp;qid=1299226147&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">in the US one here</a>. It\'s priced at 94p (including VAT which applies to ebooks, sigh) in the UK, to match my Macmillan short story of a similar length, <em>Dead Men\'s Shoes</em>, and at $1.84 in the US.\r\n\r\nThis is a step-by-step guide detailing how I got this 9000-word story from Scrivener on to Kindle, so that those of you wanting to do the same can see in detail how it happened.\r\n\r\nFirst, watch this video which is produced by the Scrivener people. It begins by describing the process involved in producing an epub ebook, the kind used by iBooks and other places. I haven\'t put this work up on iBooks; to do it directly demands you get an ISBN, which is a pain frankly, and overkill for a 99p short story, nor do I have the time right now to deal with iBook aggregators. Besides, I think Kindle wipes the floor with every other ebook delivery system. It\'s quick, easy and very, very popular.  The process for getting a Kindle file follows the epub pattern in the video. Part way through you will see how to choose Kindle over epub.\r\n\r\n[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cgJ8x-R86M[/youtube]\r\n\r\nTo go further you will need to be signed up for Kindle Digital Publishing and to have <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&amp;docId=1000234621\" target=\"_blank\">downloaded the KindleGen plugin and the Kindle Previewer here.</a> Note: it only works on Intel Macs running 10.5 or higher. So Tiger users won\'t be able to take advantage of it (this is an Amazon limitation, not a Scrivener one).\r\n\r\nAll done? Next, get yourself a cover, a jpeg 600 x 800 at 72 dpi. It will appear on Kindle hardware in black and white, but not everyone uses Kindle hardware. Kindle apps are very popular too. So my advice is: choose a cover that\'s colour and will work in both. The Kindle Previewer will show you what it looks like in black and white.\r\n\r\nMy cover for <em>Judith and the Holy Ferns</em> is light and minimal and self-produced. Flashy cover designs are essential in paper book publishing where they are used to generate advance sales from retailers among other things. I\'m not entirely convinced they are so high on the buy/don\'t buy process in epublishing, but that\'s a discussion for another time. This is a 99p short story. I\'m not forking out $1000 for a commercial book cover.\r\n\r\nWhen you have a suitable jpeg drag it somewhere into the Binder in your Scrivener project so that it sits as a separate file like this. This is important. You can\'t import that cover into your final Kindle file if it\'s outside Scrivener.\r\n\r\nNow go to the Compile option in the File Menu.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Contents1.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7616\" title=\"Contents\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Contents1-640x600.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"595\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWe will be running down the list of processes on the left and dealing with the options as they go. The first is obvious -- contents. This will determine the text elements in the manuscript you want to go into the finished book. There are just three chapters in this short story, each with names and manual chapter numbers. So I don\'t need to worry about auto chapter numbering (which is possible and the video shows how). I just tick the chapters I want to include.\r\n\r\nNext comes formatting.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Formatting1.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7617\" title=\"Formatting\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Formatting1-640x599.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"594\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis isn\'t text and font size -- Kindle takes care of that for you. This is to do with how chapter headings are dealt with. If your book is hierarchical -- parts and chapters, for example -- this is where you dictate that those headings are different to the body text. I only have Level 1 text documents in here -- the third option. So while the others are ticked they won\'t have any effect. I\'ve changed the header setting to Heading 3 (just put your cursor next to title) to make it bigger than the body text and on the right I\'ve inserted Page padding of eight lines. This will make new chapters start a little way down the page, something that\'s becoming popular in ebook formatting.\r\n\r\nProcessing options...\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Processing.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7602\" title=\"Processing\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Processing-640x533.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"528\" /></a>\r\n\r\nBy clicking \'Do not add page padding to the first document\' I make sure the first chapter of the book starts at the top of the page, which I prefer. This is just personal taste. I don\'t need to do anything with the other options.\r\n\r\nSeparators...\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Separators.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7603\" title=\"Separators\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Separators-640x598.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"593\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis threw me at first and caused my one hiccup. I had the text set to break to a new line between sections. In order to generate proper chapter headings and a table of contents (and Kindle likes TOCs, even for small documents) you need to separate everything with a section break. Otherwise you will get nagged for not having a TOC.\r\n\r\nCover... just pick the jpeg you already have in your Scrivener binder which will appear as an option in the popup.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Cover2.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7605\" title=\"Cover2\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Cover2-640x533.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"528\" /></a>\r\n\r\nE-Book options... these will give you a TOC that Kindle will like.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Ebook-options.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7606\" title=\"Ebook options\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Ebook-options-640x526.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"521\" /></a>\r\n\r\nText Options...\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Text-options.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7607\" title=\"Text options\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Text-options-640x531.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"526\" /></a>\r\n\r\nYou can clean up text if you want here -- I don\'t need to.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/html-options.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7608\" title=\"html options\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/html-options-640x596.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"591\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis doesn\'t apply to a short story with no internal links, but I left it selected anyway. But if you use internal wiki-like links in Scrivener this will recreate them in the Kindle document, which could be useful for non-fiction projects.\r\n\r\nFinally, as far as a modest project like this is concerned... Meta-Data.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Metadata.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7609\" title=\"Metadata\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Metadata-640x597.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"592\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis is where you deal with title, publisher and author information. That\'s all you need enter really as far as I can see -- forget about ID numbers and dates. I suspect something ought to be entered under Rights but I don\'t know what and Kindle DRMs the files anyway so it doesn\'t much bother me.\r\n\r\nOne caveat. Kindle demands you put in the author as Last name, First name. The current release version of Scrivener isn\'t happy with this and recognises it as two authors. At the time of writing, early March 2011, you need to download the latest Scrivener beta to get this working properly. <a href=\"http://www.literatureandlatte.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&amp;t=11692\" target=\"_blank\">You can find it here</a>. After that type in Last name, First name and it will work.\r\n\r\nThe final option is simply a link to where the KindleGen plugin is kept on your Mac. The other options can be left for me. After that click Compile and check your output in Kindle Viewer (and a Kindle app too). When you\'re happy with it upload to Kindle Digital Publishing and wait for it to go public after it\'s approved.\r\n\r\nThis is a simple process for a fairly simple short story. Anyone with hierarchical novels, in folders or as sub documents, should take care to get those options right in the Formatting section and to check that the separators are working fine too.\r\n\r\nOnce you have a working system you can save it in the Compile window and simply reload the settings for another publication later. This is getting as close to an automated ebook process as I can imagine right now, and is <em>much</em> slicker than anything that I\'ve seen before for Kindle publication. One more amazing facet in the amazing piece of software that\'s Scrivener.\r\n\r\nBefore long I hope to show you something from this that is rather more complex. But it will require some editing first.\r\n\r\nOh, and do remember. This is processing, not writing. It\'s important, but not as important as the words themselves.','From Scrivener to Kindle step-by-step','','inherit','open','open','','7583-revision-5','','','2011-03-05 11:04:07','2011-03-05 11:04:07','',7583,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7583-revision-5/',0,'revision','',0),(7639,1,'2011-03-05 11:04:18','2011-03-05 11:04:18','<a href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judith-and-the-Holy-Ferns/dp/B004QGYAFU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=digital-text&amp;qid=1299226074&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7588\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"Judith\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Judith-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" /></a>Today Amazon published my first direct from Scrivener-to-Kindle work, a short story set in Rome, though not part of the Costa series, called <em>Judith and the Holy Ferns. </em>I put this up because it\'s an unusual piece of work I\'d quite like to get out there, but also as a test of how easy it is to go from Scrivener 2 to Kindle with no intermediate apps or conversions.\r\n\r\nI\'m also interested in seeing how many people will think it worth reading; you can <a href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judith-and-the-Holy-Ferns/dp/B004QGYAFU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=digital-text&amp;qid=1299226074&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">find it in the UK store here</a> and <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Judith-Holy-Ferns-ebook/dp/B004QGYAFU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;m=A7B2F8DUJ88VZ&amp;s=digital-text&amp;qid=1299226147&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">in the US one here</a>. It\'s priced at 94p (including VAT which applies to ebooks, sigh) in the UK, to match my Macmillan short story of a similar length, <em>Dead Men\'s Shoes</em>, and at $1.84 in the US.\r\n\r\nThis is a step-by-step guide detailing how I got this 9000-word story from Scrivener on to Kindle, so that those of you wanting to do the same can see in detail how it happened.\r\n\r\nFirst, watch this video which is produced by the Scrivener people. It begins by describing the process involved in producing an epub ebook, the kind used by iBooks and other places. I haven\'t put this work up on iBooks; to do it directly demands you get an ISBN, which is a pain frankly, and overkill for a 99p short story, nor do I have the time right now to deal with iBook aggregators. Besides, I think Kindle wipes the floor with every other ebook delivery system. It\'s quick, easy and very, very popular.  The process for getting a Kindle file follows the epub pattern in the video. Part way through you will see how to choose Kindle over epub.\r\n\r\n[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cgJ8x-R86M[/youtube]\r\n\r\nTo go further you will need to be signed up for Kindle Digital Publishing and to have <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&amp;docId=1000234621\" target=\"_blank\">downloaded the KindleGen plugin and the Kindle Previewer here.</a> Note: it only works on Intel Macs running 10.5 or higher. So Tiger users won\'t be able to take advantage of it (this is an Amazon limitation, not a Scrivener one).\r\n\r\nAll done? Next, get yourself a cover, a jpeg 600 x 800 at 72 dpi. It will appear on Kindle hardware in black and white, but not everyone uses Kindle hardware. Kindle apps are very popular too. So my advice is: choose a cover that\'s colour and will work in both. The Kindle Previewer will show you what it looks like in black and white.\r\n\r\nMy cover for <em>Judith and the Holy Ferns</em> is light and minimal and self-produced. Flashy cover designs are essential in paper book publishing where they are used to generate advance sales from retailers among other things. I\'m not entirely convinced they are so high on the buy/don\'t buy process in epublishing, but that\'s a discussion for another time. This is a 99p short story. I\'m not forking out $1000 for a commercial book cover.\r\n\r\nWhen you have a suitable jpeg drag it somewhere into the Binder in your Scrivener project so that it sits as a separate file like this. This is important. You can\'t import that cover into your final Kindle file if it\'s outside Scrivener.\r\n\r\nNow go to the Compile option in the File Menu.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Contents1.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7616\" title=\"Contents\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Contents1-640x600.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"595\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWe will be running down the list of processes on the left and dealing with the options as they go. The first is obvious -- contents. This will determine the text elements in the manuscript you want to go into the finished book. There are just three chapters in this short story, each with names and manual chapter numbers. So I don\'t need to worry about auto chapter numbering (which is possible and the video shows how). I just tick the chapters I want to include.\r\n\r\nNext comes formatting.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Formatting1.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7617\" title=\"Formatting\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Formatting1-640x599.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"594\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis isn\'t text and font size -- Kindle takes care of that for you. This is to do with how chapter headings are dealt with. If your book is hierarchical -- parts and chapters, for example -- this is where you dictate that those headings are different to the body text. I only have Level 1 text documents in here -- the third option. So while the others are ticked they won\'t have any effect. I\'ve changed the header setting to Heading 3 (just put your cursor next to title) to make it bigger than the body text and on the right I\'ve inserted Page padding of eight lines. This will make new chapters start a little way down the page, something that\'s becoming popular in ebook formatting.\r\n\r\nProcessing options...\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Processing.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7602\" title=\"Processing\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Processing-640x533.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"528\" /></a>\r\n\r\nBy clicking \'Do not add page padding to the first document\' I make sure the first chapter of the book starts at the top of the page, which I prefer. This is just personal taste. I don\'t need to do anything with the other options.\r\n\r\nSeparators...\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Separators.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7603\" title=\"Separators\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Separators-640x598.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"593\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis threw me at first and caused my one hiccup. I had the text set to break to a new line between sections. In order to generate proper chapter headings and a table of contents (and Kindle likes TOCs, even for small documents) you need to separate everything with a section break. Otherwise you will get nagged for not having a TOC.\r\n\r\nCover... just pick the jpeg you already have in your Scrivener binder which will appear as an option in the popup.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Cover2.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7605\" title=\"Cover2\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Cover2-640x533.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"528\" /></a>\r\n\r\nE-Book options... these will give you a TOC that Kindle will like.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Ebook-options.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7606\" title=\"Ebook options\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Ebook-options-640x526.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"521\" /></a>\r\n\r\nText Options...\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Text-options.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7607\" title=\"Text options\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Text-options-640x531.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"526\" /></a>\r\n\r\nYou can clean up text if you want here -- I don\'t need to.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/html-options.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7608\" title=\"html options\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/html-options-640x596.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"591\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis doesn\'t apply to a short story with no internal links, but I left it selected anyway. But if you use internal wiki-like links in Scrivener this will recreate them in the Kindle document, which could be useful for non-fiction projects.\r\n\r\nFinally, as far as a modest project like this is concerned... Meta-Data.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Metadata.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7609\" title=\"Metadata\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Metadata-640x597.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"592\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis is where you deal with title, publisher and author information. That\'s all you need enter really as far as I can see -- forget about ID numbers and dates. I suspect something ought to be entered under Rights but I don\'t know what and Kindle DRMs the files anyway so it doesn\'t much bother me.\r\n\r\nOne caveat. Kindle demands you put in the author as Last name, First name. The current release version of Scrivener isn\'t happy with this and recognises it as two authors. At the time of writing, early March 2011, you need to download the latest Scrivener beta to get this working properly. <a href=\"http://www.literatureandlatte.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&amp;t=11692\" target=\"_blank\">You can find it here</a>. After that type in Last name, First name and it will work.\r\n\r\nThe final option is simply a link to where the KindleGen plugin is kept on your Mac. The other options can be left for me. After that click Compile and check your output in Kindle Viewer (and a Kindle app too). When you\'re happy with it upload to Kindle Digital Publishing and wait for it to go public after it\'s approved.\r\n\r\nThis is a simple process for a fairly simple short story. Anyone with hierarchical novels, in folders or as sub documents, should take care to get those options right in the Formatting section and to check that the separators are working fine too.\r\n\r\nOnce you have a working system you can save it in the Compile window and simply reload the settings for another publication later. This is getting as close to an automated ebook process as I can imagine right now, and is <em>much</em> slicker than anything that I\'ve seen before for Kindle publication. One more amazing facet in the amazing piece of software that\'s Scrivener.\r\n\r\nBefore long I hope to show you something from this that is rather more complex. But it will require some editing first.\r\n\r\nOh, and do remember. This is processing, not writing. It\'s important, but not as important as the words themselves.','From Scrivener to Kindle step-by-step','','inherit','open','open','','7583-revision-6','','','2011-03-05 11:04:18','2011-03-05 11:04:18','',7583,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7583-revision-6/',0,'revision','',0),(7640,1,'2011-03-05 11:05:42','2011-03-05 11:05:42','<a href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judith-and-the-Holy-Ferns/dp/B004QGYAFU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=digital-text&amp;qid=1299226074&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7588\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"Judith\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Judith-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" /></a>Today Amazon published my first direct from Scrivener-to-Kindle work, a short story set in Rome, though not part of the Costa series, called <em>Judith and the Holy Ferns. </em>I put this up because it\'s an unusual piece of work I\'d quite like to get out there, but also as a test of how easy it is to go from Scrivener 2 to Kindle with no intermediate apps or conversions.\r\n\r\nI\'m also interested in seeing how many people will think it worth reading; you can <a href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judith-and-the-Holy-Ferns/dp/B004QGYAFU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=digital-text&amp;qid=1299226074&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">find it in the UK store here</a> and <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Judith-Holy-Ferns-ebook/dp/B004QGYAFU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;m=A7B2F8DUJ88VZ&amp;s=digital-text&amp;qid=1299226147&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">in the US one here</a>. It\'s priced at 94p (including VAT which applies to ebooks, sigh) in the UK. I tried to match my Macmillan short story of a similar length, <em>Dead Men\'s Shoes</em>, which is 99p, but you have to enter the net price in Kindle and let the system calculate the VAT (and clearly I got that 5p short). In the US it\'s $1.84 again to match the Macmillan pricing.\r\n\r\nBelow is a step-by-step guide detailing how I got this 9000-word story from Scrivener on to Kindle, so that those of you wanting to do the same can see in detail how it happened.\r\n\r\nFirst, watch this video which is produced by the Scrivener people. It begins by describing the process involved in producing an epub ebook, the kind used by iBooks and other places. I haven\'t put this work up on iBooks; to do it directly demands you get an ISBN, which is a pain frankly, and overkill for a 99p short story, nor do I have the time right now to deal with iBook aggregators. Besides, I think Kindle wipes the floor with every other ebook delivery system. It\'s quick, easy and very, very popular.  The process for getting a Kindle file follows the epub pattern in the video. Part way through you will see how to choose Kindle over epub.\r\n\r\n[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cgJ8x-R86M[/youtube]\r\n\r\nTo go further you will need to be signed up for Kindle Digital Publishing and to have <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&amp;docId=1000234621\" target=\"_blank\">downloaded the KindleGen plugin and the Kindle Previewer here.</a> Note: it only works on Intel Macs running 10.5 or higher. So Tiger users won\'t be able to take advantage of it (this is an Amazon limitation, not a Scrivener one).\r\n\r\nAll done? Next, get yourself a cover, a jpeg 600 x 800 at 72 dpi. It will appear on Kindle hardware in black and white, but not everyone uses Kindle hardware. Kindle apps are very popular too. So my advice is: choose a cover that\'s colour and will work in both. The Kindle Previewer will show you what it looks like in black and white.\r\n\r\nMy cover for <em>Judith and the Holy Ferns</em> is light and minimal and self-produced. Flashy cover designs are essential in paper book publishing where they are used to generate advance sales from retailers among other things. I\'m not entirely convinced they are so high on the buy/don\'t buy process in epublishing, but that\'s a discussion for another time. This is a 99p short story. I\'m not forking out $1000 for a commercial book cover.\r\n\r\nWhen you have a suitable jpeg drag it somewhere into the Binder in your Scrivener project so that it sits as a separate file like this. This is important. You can\'t import that cover into your final Kindle file if it\'s outside Scrivener.\r\n\r\nNow go to the Compile option in the File Menu.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Contents1.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7616\" title=\"Contents\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Contents1-640x600.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"595\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWe will be running down the list of processes on the left and dealing with the options as they go. The first is obvious -- contents. This will determine the text elements in the manuscript you want to go into the finished book. There are just three chapters in this short story, each with names and manual chapter numbers. So I don\'t need to worry about auto chapter numbering (which is possible and the video shows how). I just tick the chapters I want to include.\r\n\r\nNext comes formatting.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Formatting1.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7617\" title=\"Formatting\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Formatting1-640x599.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"594\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis isn\'t text and font size -- Kindle takes care of that for you. This is to do with how chapter headings are dealt with. If your book is hierarchical -- parts and chapters, for example -- this is where you dictate that those headings are different to the body text. I only have Level 1 text documents in here -- the third option. So while the others are ticked they won\'t have any effect. I\'ve changed the header setting to Heading 3 (just put your cursor next to title) to make it bigger than the body text and on the right I\'ve inserted Page padding of eight lines. This will make new chapters start a little way down the page, something that\'s becoming popular in ebook formatting.\r\n\r\nProcessing options...\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Processing.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7602\" title=\"Processing\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Processing-640x533.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"528\" /></a>\r\n\r\nBy clicking \'Do not add page padding to the first document\' I make sure the first chapter of the book starts at the top of the page, which I prefer. This is just personal taste. I don\'t need to do anything with the other options.\r\n\r\nSeparators...\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Separators.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7603\" title=\"Separators\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Separators-640x598.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"593\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis threw me at first and caused my one hiccup. I had the text set to break to a new line between sections. In order to generate proper chapter headings and a table of contents (and Kindle likes TOCs, even for small documents) you need to separate everything with a section break. Otherwise you will get nagged for not having a TOC.\r\n\r\nCover... just pick the jpeg you already have in your Scrivener binder which will appear as an option in the popup.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Cover2.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7605\" title=\"Cover2\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Cover2-640x533.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"528\" /></a>\r\n\r\nE-Book options... these will give you a TOC that Kindle will like.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Ebook-options.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7606\" title=\"Ebook options\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Ebook-options-640x526.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"521\" /></a>\r\n\r\nText Options...\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Text-options.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7607\" title=\"Text options\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Text-options-640x531.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"526\" /></a>\r\n\r\nYou can clean up text if you want here -- I don\'t need to.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/html-options.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7608\" title=\"html options\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/html-options-640x596.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"591\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis doesn\'t apply to a short story with no internal links, but I left it selected anyway. But if you use internal wiki-like links in Scrivener this will recreate them in the Kindle document, which could be useful for non-fiction projects.\r\n\r\nFinally, as far as a modest project like this is concerned... Meta-Data.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Metadata.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7609\" title=\"Metadata\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Metadata-640x597.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"592\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis is where you deal with title, publisher and author information. That\'s all you need enter really as far as I can see -- forget about ID numbers and dates. I suspect something ought to be entered under Rights but I don\'t know what and Kindle DRMs the files anyway so it doesn\'t much bother me.\r\n\r\nOne caveat. Kindle demands you put in the author as Last name, First name. The current release version of Scrivener isn\'t happy with this and recognises it as two authors. At the time of writing, early March 2011, you need to download the latest Scrivener beta to get this working properly. <a href=\"http://www.literatureandlatte.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&amp;t=11692\" target=\"_blank\">You can find it here</a>. After that type in Last name, First name and it will work.\r\n\r\nThe final option is simply a link to where the KindleGen plugin is kept on your Mac. The other options can be left for me. After that click Compile and check your output in Kindle Viewer (and a Kindle app too). When you\'re happy with it upload to Kindle Digital Publishing and wait for it to go public after it\'s approved.\r\n\r\nThis is a simple process for a fairly simple short story. Anyone with hierarchical novels, in folders or as sub documents, should take care to get those options right in the Formatting section and to check that the separators are working fine too.\r\n\r\nOnce you have a working system you can save it in the Compile window and simply reload the settings for another publication later. This is getting as close to an automated ebook process as I can imagine right now, and is <em>much</em> slicker than anything that I\'ve seen before for Kindle publication. One more amazing facet in the amazing piece of software that\'s Scrivener.\r\n\r\nBefore long I hope to show you something from this that is rather more complex. But it will require some editing first.\r\n\r\nOh, and do remember. This is processing, not writing. It\'s important, but not as important as the words themselves.','From Scrivener to Kindle step-by-step','','inherit','open','open','','7583-revision-7','','','2011-03-05 11:05:42','2011-03-05 11:05:42','',7583,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7583-revision-7/',0,'revision','',0),(7641,1,'2011-03-05 11:05:59','2011-03-05 11:05:59','<a href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judith-and-the-Holy-Ferns/dp/B004QGYAFU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=digital-text&amp;qid=1299226074&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7588\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"Judith\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Judith-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" /></a>Today Amazon published my first direct from Scrivener-to-Kindle work, a short story set in Rome, though not part of the Costa series, called <em>Judith and the Holy Ferns. </em>I put this up because it\'s an unusual piece of work I\'d quite like to get out there, but also as a test of how easy it is to go from Scrivener 2 to Kindle with no intermediate apps or conversions.\r\n\r\nI\'m also interested in seeing how many people will think it worth reading; you can <a href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judith-and-the-Holy-Ferns/dp/B004QGYAFU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=digital-text&amp;qid=1299226074&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">find it in the UK store here</a> and <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Judith-Holy-Ferns-ebook/dp/B004QGYAFU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;m=A7B2F8DUJ88VZ&amp;s=digital-text&amp;qid=1299226147&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">in the US one here</a>. It\'s priced at 94p (including VAT which applies to ebooks, sigh) in the UK. I tried to match my Macmillan short story of a similar length, <em>Dead Men\'s Shoes</em>, which is 99p, but you have to enter the net price in Kindle and let the system calculate the VAT (and clearly I got that 5p short). In the US it\'s $1.84 again to match the Macmillan pricing.\r\n\r\nBelow is a step-by-step guide detailing how I got this 9000-word story from Scrivener on to Kindle, so that those of you wanting to do the same can see in detail how it happened.\r\n\r\nFirst, watch this video which is produced by the Scrivener people. It begins by describing the process involved in producing an epub ebook, the kind used by iBooks and other places. I haven\'t put this work up on iBooks; to do it directly demands you get an ISBN, which is a pain frankly, and overkill for a 99p short story, nor do I have the time right now to deal with iBook aggregators. Besides, I think Kindle wipes the floor with every other ebook delivery system. It\'s quick, easy and very, very popular.  The process for getting a Kindle file follows the epub pattern in the video. Part way through you will see how to choose Kindle over epub.\r\n\r\n[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cgJ8x-R86M[/youtube]\r\n\r\nTo go further you will need to be signed up for Kindle Digital Publishing and to have <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&amp;docId=1000234621\" target=\"_blank\">downloaded the KindleGen plugin and the Kindle Previewer here.</a> Note: it only works on Intel Macs running 10.5 or higher. So Tiger users won\'t be able to take advantage of it (this is an Amazon limitation, not a Scrivener one).\r\n\r\nAll done? Next, get yourself a cover, a jpeg 600 x 800 at 72 dpi. It will appear on Kindle hardware in black and white, but not everyone uses Kindle hardware. Kindle apps are very popular too. So my advice is: choose a cover that\'s colour and will work in both. The Kindle Previewer will show you what it looks like in black and white.\r\n\r\nMy cover for <em>Judith and the Holy Ferns</em> is light and minimal and self-produced. Flashy cover designs are essential in paper book publishing where they are used to generate advance sales from retailers among other things. I\'m not entirely convinced they are so high on the buy/don\'t buy process in epublishing, but that\'s a discussion for another time. This is a 99p short story. I\'m not forking out $1000 for a commercial book cover.\r\n\r\nWhen you have a suitable jpeg drag it somewhere into the Binder in your Scrivener project so that it sits as a separate file like this. This is important. You can\'t import that cover into your final Kindle file if it\'s outside Scrivener.\r\n\r\nNow go to the Compile option in the File Menu.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Contents1.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7616\" title=\"Contents\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Contents1-640x600.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"595\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWe will be running down the list of processes on the left and dealing with the options as they go. The first is obvious -- contents. This will determine the text elements in the manuscript you want to go into the finished book. There are just three chapters in this short story, each with names and manual chapter numbers. So I don\'t need to worry about auto chapter numbering (which is possible and the video shows how). I just tick the chapters I want to include.\r\n\r\nNext comes formatting.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Formatting1.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7617\" title=\"Formatting\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Formatting1-640x599.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"594\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis isn\'t text and font size -- Kindle takes care of that for you. This is to do with how chapter headings are dealt with. If your book is hierarchical -- parts and chapters, for example -- this is where you dictate that those headings are different to the body text. I only have Level 1 text documents in here -- the third option. So while the others are ticked they won\'t have any effect. I\'ve changed the header setting to Heading 3 (just put your cursor next to title) to make it bigger than the body text and on the right I\'ve inserted Page padding of eight lines. This will make new chapters start a little way down the page, something that\'s becoming popular in ebook formatting.\r\n\r\nProcessing options...\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Processing.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7602\" title=\"Processing\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Processing-640x533.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"528\" /></a>\r\n\r\nBy clicking \'Do not add page padding to the first document\' I make sure the first chapter of the book starts at the top of the page, which I prefer. This is just personal taste. I don\'t need to do anything with the other options.\r\n\r\nSeparators...\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Separators.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7603\" title=\"Separators\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Separators-640x598.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"593\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis threw me at first and caused my one hiccup. I had the text set to break to a new line between sections. In order to generate proper chapter headings and a table of contents (and Kindle likes TOCs, even for small documents) you need to separate everything with a section break. Otherwise you will get nagged for not having a TOC.\r\n\r\nCover... just pick the jpeg you already have in your Scrivener binder which will appear as an option in the popup.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Cover2.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7605\" title=\"Cover2\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Cover2-640x533.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"528\" /></a>\r\n\r\nE-Book options... these will give you a TOC that Kindle will like.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Ebook-options.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7606\" title=\"Ebook options\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Ebook-options-640x526.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"521\" /></a>\r\n\r\nText Options...\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Text-options.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7607\" title=\"Text options\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Text-options-640x531.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"526\" /></a>\r\n\r\nYou can clean up text if you want here -- I don\'t need to.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/html-options.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7608\" title=\"html options\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/html-options-640x596.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"591\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis doesn\'t apply to a short story with no internal links, but I left it selected anyway. But if you use internal wiki-like links in Scrivener this will recreate them in the Kindle document, which could be useful for non-fiction projects.\r\n\r\nFinally, as far as a modest project like this is concerned... Meta-Data.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Metadata.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7609\" title=\"Metadata\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Metadata-640x597.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"592\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis is where you deal with title, publisher and author information. That\'s all you need enter really as far as I can see -- forget about ID numbers and dates. I suspect something ought to be entered under Rights but I don\'t know what and Kindle DRMs the files anyway so it doesn\'t much bother me.\r\n\r\nOne caveat. Kindle demands you put in the author as Last name, First name. The current release version of Scrivener isn\'t happy with this and recognises it as two authors. At the time of writing, early March 2011, you need to download the latest Scrivener beta to get this working properly. <a href=\"http://www.literatureandlatte.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&amp;t=11692\" target=\"_blank\">You can find it here</a>. After that type in Last name, First name and it will work.\r\n\r\nThe final option is simply a link to where the KindleGen plugin is kept on your Mac. The other options can be left for me. After that click Compile and check your output in Kindle Viewer (and a Kindle app too). When you\'re happy with it upload to Kindle Digital Publishing and wait for it to go public after it\'s approved.\r\n\r\nThis is a simple process for a fairly simple short story. Anyone with hierarchical novels, in folders or as sub documents, should take care to get those options right in the Formatting section and to check that the separators are working fine too.\r\n\r\nOnce you have a working system you can save it in the Compile window and simply reload the settings for another publication later. This is getting as close to an automated ebook process as I can imagine right now, and is <em>much</em> slicker than anything that I\'ve seen before for Kindle publication. One more amazing facet in the amazing piece of software that\'s Scrivener.\r\n\r\nBefore long I hope to show you something from this that is rather more complex. But it will require some editing first.\r\n\r\nOh, and do remember. This is processing, not writing. It\'s important, but not as important as the words themselves.','From Scrivener to Kindle step-by-step','','inherit','open','open','','7583-revision-8','','','2011-03-05 11:05:59','2011-03-05 11:05:59','',7583,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7583-revision-8/',0,'revision','',0),(7642,1,'2011-03-04 08:57:57','2011-03-04 08:57:57','<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Judith.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7588\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"Judith\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Judith-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" /></a>Downtrodden, impoverished and frumpy -- in her own eyes at least -- Mary Mackenzie finds herself in Rome with the latest in a long line of abusive \'employers\'. The elderly Mr Carstairs \'works in art\' and has taken her to a painting exhibition, one that turned out to be rather more shocking than she expected.\r\n\r\nNow she finds herself in Babington\'s Tea Rooms getting a lecture from Mr Carstairs on the history of the painting concerned, and her own inadequacies. After which she will be expected, once more, to perform her \'duties\', ones she finds distinctly distasteful.\r\n\r\nBut is the worm about to turn?\r\n\r\n<em>Judith and the Holy Ferns</em> is a 9000-word short story set in Rome but without any of the customary cast from the Costa books. It\'s a two-hander mainly, Mary and Mr Carstairs with one unusual added guest towards the end. Those of us with longish writing careers often end up with pieces like this, ideas that, in this case, hark back to my old love of Roald Dahl (in his adult stories) and Robert Aickman. Slightly odd tales with curious resolutions that don\'t quite resolve.\r\n\r\nA part of me wonders if this might be the beginning of a Costa story, one in which my familiar team take up the challenge Mary and Mr Carstairs leave hanging in the air at the end of this tale.\r\n\r\nOne day perhaps... for now it is just <em>Judith and the Holy Ferns</em>, a short story available only on Kindle.\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judith-and-the-Holy-Ferns/dp/B004QGYAFU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1299228829&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\">Buy from the UK Kindle store for £1.14</a></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Judith-Holy-Ferns-ebook/dp/B004QGYAFU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;m=A7B2F8DUJ88VZ&amp;s=digital-text&amp;qid=1299226147&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">Buy from the US Kindle store for $1.84 (approx)</a></strong>','Judith and the Holy Ferns','','inherit','open','open','','7619-revision','','','2011-03-04 08:57:57','2011-03-04 08:57:57','',7619,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7619-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(7643,1,'2011-03-05 11:09:14','2011-03-05 11:09:14','Downtrodden, impoverished and frumpy — in her own eyes at least — Mary Mackenzie finds herself in Rome with the latest in a long line of abusive ‘employers’. The elderly Mr Carstairs ‘works in art’ and has taken her to a painting exhibition, one that turned out to be rather more shocking than she expected.\r\n\r\nNow she finds herself in Babington’s Tea Rooms getting a lecture from Mr Carstairs on the history of the painting concerned, and her own inadequacies. After which she will be expected, once more, to perform her ‘duties’, ones she finds distinctly distasteful.\r\n\r\nBut is the worm about to turn?\r\n\r\nJudith and the Holy Ferns is a 9000-word short story set in Rome but without any of the customary cast from the Costa books. It’s a two-hander mainly, Mary and Mr Carstairs with one unusual added guest towards the end. Those of us with longish writing careers often end up with pieces like this, ideas that, in this case, hark back to my old love of Roald Dahl (in his adult stories) and Robert Aickman. Slightly odd tales with curious resolutions that don’t quite resolve.\r\n\r\nA part of me wonders if this might be the beginning of a Costa story, one in which my familiar team take up the challenge Mary and Mr Carstairs leave hanging in the air at the end of this tale.\r\n\r\nOne day perhaps… for now it is just Judith and the Holy Ferns, a short story available only on Kindle.\r\n\r\nBuy from the UK Kindle store for 94p\r\n\r\n\r\nBuy from the US Kindle store for $1.84\r\n','','','publish','open','open','','7643','','','2011-04-20 16:18:24','2011-04-20 15:18:24','',7670,'http://davidhewson.com/?p=7643',14,'nav_menu_item','',0),(7644,1,'2011-03-05 11:06:14','2011-03-05 11:06:14','<a href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judith-and-the-Holy-Ferns/dp/B004QGYAFU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=digital-text&amp;qid=1299226074&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7588\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"Judith\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Judith-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" /></a>Today Amazon published my first direct from Scrivener-to-Kindle work, a short story set in Rome, though not part of the Costa series, called <em>Judith and the Holy Ferns. </em>I put this up because it\'s an unusual piece of work I\'d quite like to get out there, but also as a test of how easy it is to go from Scrivener 2 to Kindle with no intermediate apps or conversions.\r\n\r\nI\'m also interested in seeing how many people will think it worth reading; you can <a href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judith-and-the-Holy-Ferns/dp/B004QGYAFU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=digital-text&amp;qid=1299226074&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">find it in the UK store here</a> and <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Judith-Holy-Ferns-ebook/dp/B004QGYAFU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;m=A7B2F8DUJ88VZ&amp;s=digital-text&amp;qid=1299226147&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">in the US one here</a>. It\'s priced at 94p (including VAT which applies to ebooks, sigh) in the UK. I tried to match my Macmillan short story of a similar length, <em>Dead Men\'s Shoes</em>, which is 99p, but you have to enter the net price in Kindle and let the system calculate the VAT (and clearly I got that 5p short). In the US it\'s $1.84 again to match the Macmillan pricing.\r\n\r\nBelow is a step-by-step guide detailing how I got this 9000-word story from Scrivener on to Kindle, so that those of you wanting to do the same can see in detail how it happened.\r\n\r\nFirst, watch this video which is produced by the Scrivener people. It begins by describing the process involved in producing an epub ebook, the kind used by iBooks and other places. I haven\'t put this work up on iBooks; to do it directly demands you get an ISBN, which is a pain frankly, and overkill for a 99p short story, nor do I have the time right now to deal with iBook aggregators. Besides, I think Kindle wipes the floor with every other ebook delivery system. It\'s quick, easy and very, very popular.  The process for getting a Kindle file follows the epub pattern in the video. Part way through you will see how to choose Kindle over epub.\r\n\r\n[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cgJ8x-R86M[/youtube]\r\n\r\nTo go further you will need to be signed up for Kindle Digital Publishing and to have <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&amp;docId=1000234621\" target=\"_blank\">downloaded the KindleGen plugin and the Kindle Previewer here.</a> Note: it only works on Intel Macs running 10.5 or higher. So Tiger users won\'t be able to take advantage of it (this is an Amazon limitation, not a Scrivener one).\r\n\r\nAll done? Next, get yourself a cover, a jpeg 600 x 800 at 72 dpi. It will appear on Kindle hardware in black and white, but not everyone uses Kindle hardware. Kindle apps are very popular too. So my advice is: choose a cover that\'s colour and will work in both. The Kindle Previewer will show you what it looks like in black and white.\r\n\r\nMy cover for <em>Judith and the Holy Ferns</em> is light and minimal and self-produced. Flashy cover designs are essential in paper book publishing where they are used to generate advance sales from retailers among other things. I\'m not entirely convinced they are so high on the buy/don\'t buy process in epublishing, but that\'s a discussion for another time. This is a 99p short story. I\'m not forking out $1000 for a commercial book cover.\r\n\r\nWhen you have a suitable jpeg drag it somewhere into the Binder in your Scrivener project so that it sits as a separate file like this. This is important. You can\'t import that cover into your final Kindle file if it\'s outside Scrivener.\r\n\r\nNow go to the Compile option in the File Menu.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Contents1.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7616\" title=\"Contents\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Contents1-640x600.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"595\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWe will be running down the list of processes on the left and dealing with the options as they go. The first is obvious -- contents. This will determine the text elements in the manuscript you want to go into the finished book. There are just three chapters in this short story, each with names and manual chapter numbers. So I don\'t need to worry about auto chapter numbering (which is possible and the video shows how). I just tick the chapters I want to include.\r\n\r\nNext comes formatting.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Formatting1.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7617\" title=\"Formatting\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Formatting1-640x599.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"594\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis isn\'t text and font size -- Kindle takes care of that for you. This is to do with how chapter headings are dealt with. If your book is hierarchical -- parts and chapters, for example -- this is where you dictate that those headings are different to the body text. I only have Level 1 text documents in here -- the third option. So while the others are ticked they won\'t have any effect. I\'ve changed the header setting to Heading 3 (just put your cursor next to title) to make it bigger than the body text and on the right I\'ve inserted Page padding of eight lines. This will make new chapters start a little way down the page, something that\'s becoming popular in ebook formatting.\r\n\r\nProcessing options...\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Processing.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7602\" title=\"Processing\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Processing-640x533.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"528\" /></a>\r\n\r\nBy clicking \'Do not add page padding to the first document\' I make sure the first chapter of the book starts at the top of the page, which I prefer. This is just personal taste. I don\'t need to do anything with the other options.\r\n\r\nSeparators...\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Separators.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7603\" title=\"Separators\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Separators-640x598.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"593\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis threw me at first and caused my one hiccup. I had the text set to break to a new line between sections. In order to generate proper chapter headings and a table of contents (and Kindle likes TOCs, even for small documents) you need to separate everything with a section break. Otherwise you will get nagged for not having a TOC.\r\n\r\nCover... just pick the jpeg you already have in your Scrivener binder which will appear as an option in the popup.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Cover2.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7605\" title=\"Cover2\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Cover2-640x533.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"528\" /></a>\r\n\r\nE-Book options... these will give you a TOC that Kindle will like.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Ebook-options.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7606\" title=\"Ebook options\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Ebook-options-640x526.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"521\" /></a>\r\n\r\nText Options...\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Text-options.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7607\" title=\"Text options\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Text-options-640x531.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"526\" /></a>\r\n\r\nYou can clean up text if you want here -- I don\'t need to.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/html-options.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7608\" title=\"html options\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/html-options-640x596.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"591\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis doesn\'t apply to a short story with no internal links, but I left it selected anyway. But if you use internal wiki-like links in Scrivener this will recreate them in the Kindle document, which could be useful for non-fiction projects.\r\n\r\nFinally, as far as a modest project like this is concerned... Meta-Data.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Metadata.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7609\" title=\"Metadata\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Metadata-640x597.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"592\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis is where you deal with title, publisher and author information. That\'s all you need enter really as far as I can see -- forget about ID numbers and dates. I suspect something ought to be entered under Rights but I don\'t know what and Kindle DRMs the files anyway so it doesn\'t much bother me.\r\n\r\nOne caveat. Kindle demands you put in the author as Last name, First name. The current release version of Scrivener isn\'t happy with this and recognises it as two authors. At the time of writing, early March 2011, you need to download the latest Scrivener beta to get this working properly. <a href=\"http://www.literatureandlatte.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&amp;t=11692\" target=\"_blank\">You can find it here</a>. After that type in Last name, First name and it will work.\r\n\r\nThe final option is simply a link to where the KindleGen plugin is kept on your Mac. The other options can be left for me. After that click Compile and check your output in Kindle Viewer (and a Kindle app too). When you\'re happy with it upload to Kindle Digital Publishing and wait for it to go public after it\'s approved.\r\n\r\nThis is a simple process for a fairly simple short story. Anyone with hierarchical novels, in folders or as sub documents, should take care to get those options right in the Formatting section and to check that the separators are working fine too.\r\n\r\nOnce you have a working system you can save it in the Compile window and simply reload the settings for another publication later. This is getting as close to an automated ebook process as I can imagine right now, and is <em>much</em> slicker than anything that I\'ve seen before for Kindle publication. One more amazing facet in the amazing piece of software that\'s Scrivener.\r\n\r\nBefore long I hope to show you something from this that is rather more complex. But it will require some editing first.\r\n\r\nOh, and do remember. This is processing, not writing. It\'s important, but not as important as the words themselves.','From Scrivener to Kindle step-by-step','','inherit','open','open','','7583-revision-9','','','2011-03-05 11:06:14','2011-03-05 11:06:14','',7583,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7583-revision-9/',0,'revision','',0),(7645,1,'2011-03-05 21:59:38','2011-03-05 21:59:38','<a href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judith-and-the-Holy-Ferns/dp/B004QGYAFU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=digital-text&amp;qid=1299226074&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7588\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"Judith\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Judith-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" /></a>Today Amazon published my first direct from Scrivener-to-Kindle work, a short story set in Rome, though not part of the Costa series, called <em><a title=\"Judith and the Holy Ferns\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/standalones/judith-and-the-holy-ferns/\">Judith and the Holy Ferns</a>. </em>I put this up because it\'s an unusual piece of work I\'d quite like to get out there, but also as a test of how easy it is to go from Scrivener 2 to Kindle with no intermediate apps or conversions.\n\nI\'m also interested in seeing how many people will think it worth reading; you can <a href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judith-and-the-Holy-Ferns/dp/B004QGYAFU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=digital-text&amp;qid=1299226074&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">find it in the UK store here</a> and <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Judith-Holy-Ferns-ebook/dp/B004QGYAFU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;m=A7B2F8DUJ88VZ&amp;s=digital-text&amp;qid=1299226147&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">in the US one here</a>. It\'s priced at 94p (including VAT which applies to ebooks, sigh) in the UK. I tried to match my Macmillan short story of a similar length, <em>Dead Men\'s Shoes</em>, which is 99p, but you have to enter the net price in Kindle and let the system calculate the VAT (and clearly I got that 5p short). In the US it\'s $1.84 again to match the Macmillan pricing.\n\nBelow is a step-by-step guide detailing how I got this 9000-word story from Scrivener on to Kindle, so that those of you wanting to do the same can see in detail how it happened.\n\nFirst, watch this video which is produced by the Scrivener people. It begins by describing the process involved in producing an epub ebook, the kind used by iBooks and other places. I haven\'t put this work up on iBooks; to do it directly demands you get an ISBN, which is a pain frankly, and overkill for a 99p short story, nor do I have the time right now to deal with iBook aggregators. Besides, I think Kindle wipes the floor with every other ebook delivery system. It\'s quick, easy and very, very popular.  The process for getting a Kindle file follows the epub pattern in the video. Part way through you will see how to choose Kindle over epub.\n\n[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cgJ8x-R86M[/youtube]\n\nTo go further you will need to be signed up for Kindle Digital Publishing and to have <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&amp;docId=1000234621\" target=\"_blank\">downloaded the KindleGen plugin and the Kindle Previewer here.</a> Note: it only works on Intel Macs running 10.5 or higher. So Tiger users won\'t be able to take advantage of it (this is an Amazon limitation, not a Scrivener one).\n\nAll done? Next, get yourself a cover, a jpeg 600 x 800 at 72 dpi. It will appear on Kindle hardware in black and white, but not everyone uses Kindle hardware. Kindle apps are very popular too. So my advice is: choose a cover that\'s colour and will work in both. The Kindle Previewer will show you what it looks like in black and white.\n\nMy cover for <em>Judith and the Holy Ferns</em> is light and minimal and self-produced. Flashy cover designs are essential in paper book publishing where they are used to generate advance sales from retailers among other things. I\'m not entirely convinced they are so high on the buy/don\'t buy process in epublishing, but that\'s a discussion for another time. This is a 99p short story. I\'m not forking out $1000 for a commercial book cover.\n\nWhen you have a suitable jpeg drag it somewhere into the Binder in your Scrivener project so that it sits as a separate file. This is important. You can\'t import that cover into your final Kindle file if it\'s outside Scrivener.\n\nNow go to the Compile option in the File Menu.\n\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Contents1.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7616\" title=\"Contents\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Contents1-640x600.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"595\" /></a>\n\nWe will be running down the list of processes on the left and dealing with the options as they go. The first is obvious -- contents. This will determine the text elements in the manuscript you want to go into the finished book. There are just three chapters in this short story, each with names and manual chapter numbers. So I don\'t need to worry about auto chapter numbering (which is possible and the video shows how). I just tick the chapters I want to include.\n\nNext comes formatting.\n\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Formatting1.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7617\" title=\"Formatting\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Formatting1-640x599.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"594\" /></a>\n\nThis isn\'t text and font size -- Kindle takes care of that for you. This is to do with how chapter headings are dealt with. If your book is hierarchical -- parts and chapters, for example -- this is where you dictate that those headings are different to the body text. I only have Level 1 text documents in here -- the third option. So while the others are ticked they won\'t have any effect. I\'ve changed the header setting to Heading 3 (just put your cursor next to title) to make it bigger than the body text and on the right I\'ve inserted Page padding of eight lines. This will make new chapters start a little way down the page, something that\'s becoming popular in ebook formatting.\n\nProcessing options...\n\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Processing.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7602\" title=\"Processing\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Processing-640x533.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"528\" /></a>\n\nBy clicking \'Do not add page padding to the first document\' I make sure the first chapter of the book starts at the top of the page, which I prefer. This is just personal taste. I don\'t need to do anything with the other options.\n\nSeparators...\n\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Separators.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7603\" title=\"Separators\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Separators-640x598.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"593\" /></a>\n\nThis threw me at first and caused my one hiccup. I had the text set to break to a new line between sections. In order to generate proper chapter headings and a table of contents (and Kindle likes TOCs, even for small documents) you need to separate everything with a section break. Otherwise you will get nagged for not having a TOC.\n\nCover... just pick the jpeg you already have in your Scrivener binder which will appear as an option in the popup.\n\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Cover2.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7605\" title=\"Cover2\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Cover2-640x533.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"528\" /></a>\n\nE-Book options... these will give you a TOC that Kindle will like.\n\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Ebook-options.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7606\" title=\"Ebook options\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Ebook-options-640x526.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"521\" /></a>\n\nText Options...\n\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Text-options.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7607\" title=\"Text options\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Text-options-640x531.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"526\" /></a>\n\nYou can clean up text if you want here -- I don\'t need to.\n\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/html-options.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7608\" title=\"html options\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/html-options-640x596.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"591\" /></a>\n\nThis doesn\'t apply to a short story with no internal links, but I left it selected anyway. But if you use internal wiki-like links in Scrivener this will recreate them in the Kindle document, which could be useful for non-fiction projects.\n\nFinally, as far as a modest project like this is concerned... Meta-Data.\n\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Metadata.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7609\" title=\"Metadata\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Metadata-640x597.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"592\" /></a>\n\nThis is where you deal with title, publisher and author information. That\'s all you need enter really as far as I can see -- forget about ID numbers and dates. I suspect something ought to be entered under Rights but I don\'t know what and Kindle DRMs the files anyway so it doesn\'t much bother me.\n\nOne caveat. Kindle demands you put in the author as Last name, First name. The current release version of Scrivener isn\'t happy with this and recognises it as two authors. At the time of writing, early March 2011, you need to download the latest Scrivener beta to get this working properly. <a href=\"http://www.literatureandlatte.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&amp;t=11692\" target=\"_blank\">You can find it here</a>. After that type in Last name, First name and it will work.\n\nThe final option is simply a link to where the KindleGen plugin is kept on your Mac. The other options can be left for me. After that click Compile and check your output in Kindle Viewer (and a Kindle app too). When you\'re happy with it upload to Kindle Digital Publishing and wait for it to go public after it\'s approved.\n\nThis is a simple process for a fairly simple short story. Anyone with hierarchical novels, in folders or as sub documents, should take care to get those options right in the Formatting section and to check that the separators are working fine too.\n\nOnce you have a working system you can save it in the Compile window and simply reload the settings for another publication later. This is getting as close to an automated ebook process as I can imagine right now, and is <em>much</em> slicker than anything that I\'ve seen before for Kindle publication. One more amazing facet in the amazing piece of software that\'s Scrivener.\n\nBefore long I hope to show you something from this that is rather more complex. But it will require some editing first.\n\nOh, and do remember. This is processing, not writing. It\'s important, but not as important as the words themselves.','From Scrivener to Kindle step-by-step','','inherit','open','open','','7583-autosave','','','2011-03-05 21:59:38','2011-03-05 21:59:38','',7583,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7583-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(7646,1,'2011-03-05 11:14:56','2011-03-05 11:14:56','<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Judith.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7588\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"Judith\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Judith-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" /></a>Downtrodden, impoverished and frumpy -- in her own eyes at least -- Mary Mackenzie finds herself in Rome with the latest in a long line of abusive \'employers\'. The elderly Mr Carstairs \'works in art\' and has taken her to a painting exhibition, one that turned out to be rather more shocking than she expected.\n\nNow she finds herself in Babington\'s Tea Rooms getting a lecture from Mr Carstairs on the history of the painting concerned, and her own inadequacies. After which she will be expected, once more, to perform her \'duties\', ones she finds distinctly distasteful.\n\nBut is the worm about to turn?\n\n<em>Judith and the Holy Ferns</em> is a 9000-word short story set in Rome but without any of the customary cast from the Costa books. It\'s a two-hander mainly, Mary and Mr Carstairs with one unusual added guest towards the end. Those of us with longish writing careers often end up with pieces like this, ideas that, in this case, hark back to my old love of Roald Dahl (in his adult stories) and Robert Aickman. Slightly odd tales with curious resolutions that don\'t quite resolve.\n\nA part of me wonders if this might be the beginning of a Costa story, one in which my familiar team take up the challenge Mary and Mr Carstairs leave hanging in the air at the end of this tale.\n\nOne day perhaps... for now it is just <em>Judith and the Holy Ferns</em>, a short story available only on Kindle. If you want to know how this was done please read here.\n\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judith-and-the-Holy-Ferns/dp/B004QGYAFU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1299228829&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\">Buy from the UK Kindle store for 94p\n</a></strong>\n\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Judith-Holy-Ferns-ebook/dp/B004QGYAFU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;m=A7B2F8DUJ88VZ&amp;s=digital-text&amp;qid=1299226147&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">Buy from the US Kindle store for $1.84\n</a></strong>','Judith and the Holy Ferns','','inherit','open','open','','7619-autosave','','','2011-03-05 11:14:56','2011-03-05 11:14:56','',7619,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7619-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(7647,1,'2011-03-05 11:08:17','2011-03-05 11:08:17','<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Judith.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7588\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"Judith\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Judith-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" /></a>Downtrodden, impoverished and frumpy -- in her own eyes at least -- Mary Mackenzie finds herself in Rome with the latest in a long line of abusive \'employers\'. The elderly Mr Carstairs \'works in art\' and has taken her to a painting exhibition, one that turned out to be rather more shocking than she expected.\r\n\r\nNow she finds herself in Babington\'s Tea Rooms getting a lecture from Mr Carstairs on the history of the painting concerned, and her own inadequacies. After which she will be expected, once more, to perform her \'duties\', ones she finds distinctly distasteful.\r\n\r\nBut is the worm about to turn?\r\n\r\n<em>Judith and the Holy Ferns</em> is a 9000-word short story set in Rome but without any of the customary cast from the Costa books. It\'s a two-hander mainly, Mary and Mr Carstairs with one unusual added guest towards the end. Those of us with longish writing careers often end up with pieces like this, ideas that, in this case, hark back to my old love of Roald Dahl (in his adult stories) and Robert Aickman. Slightly odd tales with curious resolutions that don\'t quite resolve.\r\n\r\nA part of me wonders if this might be the beginning of a Costa story, one in which my familiar team take up the challenge Mary and Mr Carstairs leave hanging in the air at the end of this tale.\r\n\r\nOne day perhaps... for now it is just <em>Judith and the Holy Ferns</em>, a short story available only on Kindle.\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judith-and-the-Holy-Ferns/dp/B004QGYAFU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1299228829&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\">Buy from the UK Kindle store for 94p\r\n</a></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Judith-Holy-Ferns-ebook/dp/B004QGYAFU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;m=A7B2F8DUJ88VZ&amp;s=digital-text&amp;qid=1299226147&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">Buy from the US Kindle store for $1.84\r\n</a></strong>','Judith and the Holy Ferns','','inherit','open','open','','7619-revision-2','','','2011-03-05 11:08:17','2011-03-05 11:08:17','',7619,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7619-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(7648,1,'2011-03-05 11:15:59','2011-03-05 11:15:59','<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Judith.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7588\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"Judith\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Judith-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" /></a>Downtrodden, impoverished and frumpy -- in her own eyes at least -- Mary Mackenzie finds herself in Rome with the latest in a long line of abusive \'employers\'. The elderly Mr Carstairs \'works in art\' and has taken her to a painting exhibition, one that turned out to be rather more shocking than she expected.\n\nNow she finds herself in Babington\'s Tea Rooms getting a lecture from Mr Carstairs on the history of the painting concerned, and her own inadequacies. After which she will be expected, once more, to perform her \'duties\', ones she finds distinctly distasteful.\n\nBut is the worm about to turn?\n\n<em>Judith and the Holy Ferns</em> is a 9000-word short story set in Rome but without any of the customary cast from the Costa books. It\'s a two-hander mainly, Mary and Mr Carstairs with one unusual added guest towards the end. Those of us with longish writing careers often end up with pieces like this, ideas that, in this case, hark back to my old love of Roald Dahl (in his adult stories) and Robert Aickman. Slightly odd tales with curious resolutions that don\'t quite resolve.\n\nA part of me wonders if this might be the beginning of a Costa story, one in which my familiar team take up the challenge Mary and Mr Carstairs leave hanging in the air at the end of this tale.\n\nOne day perhaps... for now it is just <em>Judith and the Holy Ferns</em>, a short story available only on Kindle. If you want to know how this was done please read here.\n\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judith-and-the-Holy-Ferns/dp/B004QGYAFU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1299228829&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\">Buy from the UK Kindle store for 94p\n</a></strong>\n\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Judith-Holy-Ferns-ebook/dp/B004QGYAFU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;m=A7B2F8DUJ88VZ&amp;s=digital-text&amp;qid=1299226147&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">Buy from the US Kindle store for $1.84\n</a></strong>','Judith and the Holy Ferns','','inherit','open','open','','7619-revision-3','','','2011-03-05 11:15:59','2011-03-05 11:15:59','',7619,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7619-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(7649,1,'2011-03-05 11:16:00','2011-03-05 11:16:00','<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Judith.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7588\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"Judith\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Judith-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" /></a>Downtrodden, impoverished and frumpy -- in her own eyes at least -- Mary Mackenzie finds herself in Rome with the latest in a long line of abusive \'employers\'. The elderly Mr Carstairs \'works in art\' and has taken her to a painting exhibition, one that turned out to be rather more shocking than she expected.\n\nNow she finds herself in Babington\'s Tea Rooms getting a lecture from Mr Carstairs on the history of the painting concerned, and her own inadequacies. After which she will be expected, once more, to perform her \'duties\', ones she finds distinctly distasteful.\n\nBut is the worm about to turn?\n\n<em>Judith and the Holy Ferns</em> is a 9000-word short story set in Rome but without any of the customary cast from the Costa books. It\'s a two-hander mainly, Mary and Mr Carstairs with one unusual added guest towards the end. Those of us with longish writing careers often end up with pieces like this, ideas that, in this case, hark back to my old love of Roald Dahl (in his adult stories) and Robert Aickman. Slightly odd tales with curious resolutions that don\'t quite resolve.\n\nA part of me wonders if this might be the beginning of a Costa story, one in which my familiar team take up the challenge Mary and Mr Carstairs leave hanging in the air at the end of this tale.\n\nOne day perhaps... for now it is just <em>Judith and the Holy Ferns</em>, a short story available only on Kindle. If you want to know how this was done please read here.\n\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judith-and-the-Holy-Ferns/dp/B004QGYAFU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1299228829&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\">Buy from the UK Kindle store for 94p\n</a></strong>\n\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Judith-Holy-Ferns-ebook/dp/B004QGYAFU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;m=A7B2F8DUJ88VZ&amp;s=digital-text&amp;qid=1299226147&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">Buy from the US Kindle store for $1.84\n</a></strong>','Judith and the Holy Ferns','','inherit','open','open','','7619-revision-4','','','2011-03-05 11:16:00','2011-03-05 11:16:00','',7619,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7619-revision-4/',0,'revision','',0),(7650,1,'2011-03-05 11:16:12','2011-03-05 11:16:12','<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Judith.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7588\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"Judith\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Judith-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" /></a>Downtrodden, impoverished and frumpy -- in her own eyes at least -- Mary Mackenzie finds herself in Rome with the latest in a long line of abusive \'employers\'. The elderly Mr Carstairs \'works in art\' and has taken her to a painting exhibition, one that turned out to be rather more shocking than she expected.\r\n\r\nNow she finds herself in Babington\'s Tea Rooms getting a lecture from Mr Carstairs on the history of the painting concerned, and her own inadequacies. After which she will be expected, once more, to perform her \'duties\', ones she finds distinctly distasteful.\r\n\r\nBut is the worm about to turn?\r\n\r\n<em>Judith and the Holy Ferns</em> is a 9000-word short story set in Rome but without any of the customary cast from the Costa books. It\'s a two-hander mainly, Mary and Mr Carstairs with one unusual added guest towards the end. Those of us with longish writing careers often end up with pieces like this, ideas that, in this case, hark back to my old love of Roald Dahl (in his adult stories) and Robert Aickman. Slightly odd tales with curious resolutions that don\'t quite resolve.\r\n\r\nA part of me wonders if this might be the beginning of a Costa story, one in which my familiar team take up the challenge Mary and Mr Carstairs leave hanging in the air at the end of this tale.\r\n\r\nOne day perhaps... for now it is just <em>Judith and the Holy Ferns</em>, a short story available only on Kindle. If you want to know how this was done please read here.\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judith-and-the-Holy-Ferns/dp/B004QGYAFU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1299228829&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\">Buy from the UK Kindle store for 94p\r\n</a></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Judith-Holy-Ferns-ebook/dp/B004QGYAFU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;m=A7B2F8DUJ88VZ&amp;s=digital-text&amp;qid=1299226147&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">Buy from the US Kindle store for $1.84\r\n</a></strong>','Judith and the Holy Ferns','','inherit','open','open','','7619-revision-5','','','2011-03-05 11:16:12','2011-03-05 11:16:12','',7619,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7619-revision-5/',0,'revision','',0),(7651,1,'2011-03-06 08:31:03','2011-03-06 08:31:03','Two bodies. Odd socks. The <em>same</em> odd socks. And no one seems  much interested except Gianni Peroni. Get this exclusive ebook  standalone solo outing for one of the Costa series\' most popular  characters in an instant<strong> for just 99p.</strong>','<small>Judith and the Holy Ferns</small> Kindle exclusive','','inherit','open','open','','6-autosave','','','2011-03-06 08:31:03','2011-03-06 08:31:03','',6,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/6-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(7652,1,'2011-03-06 08:28:30','2011-03-06 08:28:30','Two bodies. Odd socks. The same odd socks. And no one seems much  interested except Gianni Peroni. Get this exclusive ebook standalone  solo outing for one of the Costa series’ most popular characters in an  instant <strong>for just 99p.</strong>','<small>A Roman short story</small> Dead Men’s Socks','','inherit','open','open','','9-autosave','','','2011-03-06 08:28:30','2011-03-06 08:28:30','',9,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/9-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(7654,1,'2011-02-04 11:17:48','2011-02-04 11:17:48','<img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6616\" title=\"The Fallen Angel\" src=\"http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//wp-content/uploads/2011/01/fallen-angel-uk-small1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"297\" />When British academic Malise Gabriel falls to his death from a Rome apartment, detective Nic Costa rapidly comes to realise that there is much more to the accident than he first thought. It also becomes apparent that Malise\'s family -- mysterious and tragic daughter Mina, stoic wife Cecilia and troubled son Robert -- may be keeping vital information hidden.\r\n\r\nCosta becomes obsessed with the case, intrigued by Mina\'s story which seems to be linked to the sixteenth-century real-life tragedy of a young Italian noblewoman, Beatrice Cenci.\r\n\r\nAs the investigation deepens, Rome\'s dark and seedy side is uncovered, revealing a tangle of deceit, treachery and corruption. Costa realises that the key to the truth lies with the Gabriels. Why are they so unwilling to co-operate, and who, or what, is the reason for their silence? <em>The ninth novel in the Costa series is available from Macmillan in the UK and will be published by Delacorte in the US on April 26, 2011.</em>\r\n<blockquote>Intricately plotted and gorgeously written, THE FALLEN ANGEL weaves a spell that will entrap you until the final page. David Hewson\'s Rome is dark and tantalizing, seductive and dangerous, a place where present-day crimes ring with the echoes of history.\r\n\r\nTess Gerritsen, author of THE KILLING PLACE</blockquote>\r\n<a title=\"The Fallen Angel\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/books/the-nic-costa-series/the-fallen-angel/\">Read more about the new book and see some of David\'s research photos for the novel taken in Rome. </a>\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>A new Roman tale for download</strong>\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6426\" title=\"Dead Men\'s Socks\" src=\"http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//wp-content/uploads/2010/12/dead-mens-socks1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"176\" height=\"266\" />\r\n\r\nGianni Peroni is feeling at a loose end. Mooching around with no boss at hand he wanders into the Questura morgue and sees Teresa’s deputy staring at two newly-arrived corpses. One is the body of a wealthy psychiatrist recovered from the river, apparently after committing suicide. The second is that of a young Roma petty criminal, seemingly beaten to death in a different part of the city, perhaps as some gang vendetta.\r\n\r\nPeroni watches the pathologist start to work with the corpses and notices something extraordinary. Both are wearing odd socks. <em>Identical</em> odd socks.\r\n\r\nSo begins <em><a title=\"Dead Men’s Socks — a Roman short story\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/books/the-nic-costa-series/dead-mens-socks-a-roman-short-story/\">Dead Men\'s Socks</a>, </em>a brand new 10,000-word Rome short story featuring one of the series\' most popular characters. Out now with instant download as part of the new Pan Macmillan Short Reads initiative.\r\n\r\n<strong>Get </strong><strong><em>Dead Men’s Socks </em>for 99p now</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dead-Mens-Socks-Short-Reads/dp/B004FV4RWC\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Kindle UK</strong></a> <a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/gb/book/dead-mens-socks-short-reads/id409366072?mt=11\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>iTunes</strong></a> <strong> </strong><strong><a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Dead-Mens-Socks-Short-Reads/dp/B004FV4RWC\" target=\"_blank\">Kindle non-UK </a>(including US sales)</strong>','The Fallen Angel — the ninth Costa novel','','inherit','open','open','','6622-revision','','','2011-02-04 11:17:48','2011-02-04 11:17:48','',6622,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/02/6622-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(7655,1,'2011-03-05 12:53:28','2011-03-05 12:53:28','<img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6616\" title=\"The Fallen Angel\" src=\"http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//wp-content/uploads/2011/01/fallen-angel-uk-small1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"297\" />When British academic Malise Gabriel falls to his death from a Rome apartment, detective Nic Costa rapidly comes to realise that there is much more to the accident than he first thought. It also becomes apparent that Malise\'s family -- mysterious and tragic daughter Mina, stoic wife Cecilia and troubled son Robert -- may be keeping vital information hidden.\r\n\r\nCosta becomes obsessed with the case, intrigued by Mina\'s story which seems to be linked to the sixteenth-century real-life tragedy of a young Italian noblewoman, Beatrice Cenci.\r\n\r\nAs the investigation deepens, Rome\'s dark and seedy side is uncovered, revealing a tangle of deceit, treachery and corruption. Costa realises that the key to the truth lies with the Gabriels. Why are they so unwilling to co-operate, and who, or what, is the reason for their silence? <em>The ninth novel in the Costa series is available from Macmillan in the UK and will be published by Delacorte in the US on April 26, 2011.</em>\r\n<blockquote>Intricately plotted and gorgeously written, THE FALLEN ANGEL weaves a spell that will entrap you until the final page. David Hewson\'s Rome is dark and tantalizing, seductive and dangerous, a place where present-day crimes ring with the echoes of history.\r\n\r\nTess Gerritsen, author of THE KILLING PLACE</blockquote>\r\n<a title=\"The Fallen Angel\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/books/the-nic-costa-series/the-fallen-angel/\">Read more about the new book and see some of David\'s research photos for the novel taken in Rome. </a>\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>A new Roman tale for download</strong>\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6426\" title=\"Dead Men\'s Socks\" src=\"http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//wp-content/uploads/2010/12/dead-mens-socks1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"176\" height=\"266\" />\r\n\r\nGianni Peroni is feeling at a loose end. Mooching around with no boss at hand he wanders into the Questura morgue and sees Teresa’s deputy staring at two newly-arrived corpses. One is the body of a wealthy psychiatrist recovered from the river, apparently after committing suicide. The second is that of a young Roma petty criminal, seemingly beaten to death in a different part of the city, perhaps as some gang vendetta.\r\n\r\nPeroni watches the pathologist start to work with the corpses and notices something extraordinary. Both are wearing odd socks. <em>Identical</em> odd socks.\r\n\r\nSo begins <em><a title=\"Dead Men’s Socks — a Roman short story\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/books/the-nic-costa-series/dead-mens-socks-a-roman-short-story/\">Dead Men\'s Socks</a>, </em>a brand new 10,000-word Rome short story featuring one of the series\' most popular characters. Out now with instant download as part of the new Pan Macmillan Short Reads initiative.\r\n\r\n<strong>Get </strong><strong><em>Dead Men’s Socks </em>for 99p now</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dead-Mens-Socks-Short-Reads/dp/B004FV4RWC\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Kindle UK</strong></a> <a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/gb/book/dead-mens-socks-short-reads/id409366072?mt=11\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>iTunes</strong></a> <strong> </strong><strong><a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Dead-Mens-Socks-Short-Reads/dp/B004FV4RWC\" target=\"_blank\">Kindle non-UK </a>(including US sales)</strong>','The Fallen Angel — the ninth Costa novel','','inherit','open','open','','6622-revision-2','','','2011-03-05 12:53:28','2011-03-05 12:53:28','',6622,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/6622-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(7656,1,'2011-04-21 08:27:25','2011-04-21 07:27:25','<h3>The ninth Nic Costa novel is here</h3>\n<img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6616\" title=\"The Fallen Angel\" src=\"http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//wp-content/uploads/2011/01/fallen-angel-uk-small1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"297\" />\n\nWhen British academic Malise Gabriel falls to his death from a Rome apartment, detective Nic Costa rapidly comes to realise that there is much more to the accident than he first thought. It also becomes apparent that Malise\'s family -- mysterious and tragic daughter Mina, stoic wife Cecilia and troubled son Robert -- may be keeping vital information hidden.\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/the-nic-costa-series/the-fallen-angel/\">Read reviews from the Times, New York Times, Publishers Weekly and others</a></strong></em></p>\nCosta becomes obsessed with the case, intrigued by Mina\'s story which seems to be linked to the sixteenth-century real-life tragedy of a young Italian noblewoman, Beatrice Cenci.\n\nAs the investigation deepens, Rome\'s dark and seedy side is uncovered, revealing a tangle of deceit, treachery and corruption. Costa realises that the key to the truth lies with the Gabriels. Why are they so unwilling to co-operate, and who, or what, is the reason for their silence? <em>The ninth novel in the Costa series is available from Macmillan in the UK and will be published by Delacorte in the US on April 26, 2011.</em>\n<blockquote>Intricately plotted and gorgeously written, THE FALLEN ANGEL weaves a spell that will entrap you until the final page. David Hewson\'s Rome is dark and tantalizing, seductive and dangerous, a place where present-day crimes ring with the echoes of history.\n\nTess Gerritsen, author of THE KILLING PLACE</blockquote>\n<a title=\"The Fallen Angel\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/books/the-nic-costa-series/the-fallen-angel/\">Read more about the new book and see some of David\'s research photos for the novel taken in Rome. </a>\n<strong></strong>\n\n<strong>A new Roman tale for download</strong>\n\n<img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6426\" title=\"Dead Men\'s Socks\" src=\"http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//wp-content/uploads/2010/12/dead-mens-socks1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"176\" height=\"266\" />\n\nGianni Peroni is feeling at a loose end. Mooching around with no boss at hand he wanders into the Questura morgue and sees Teresa’s deputy staring at two newly-arrived corpses. One is the body of a wealthy psychiatrist recovered from the river, apparently after committing suicide. The second is that of a young Roma petty criminal, seemingly beaten to death in a different part of the city, perhaps as some gang vendetta.\n\nPeroni watches the pathologist start to work with the corpses and notices something extraordinary. Both are wearing odd socks. <em>Identical</em> odd socks.\n\nSo begins <em><a title=\"Dead Men’s Socks — a Roman short story\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/books/the-nic-costa-series/dead-mens-socks-a-roman-short-story/\">Dead Men\'s Socks</a>, </em>a brand new 10,000-word Rome short story featuring one of the series\' most popular characters. Out now with instant download as part of the new Pan Macmillan Short Reads initiative.\n\n<strong>Get </strong><strong><em>Dead Men’s Socks </em>for 99p now</strong>\n\n<a href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dead-Mens-Socks-Short-Reads/dp/B004FV4RWC\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Kindle UK</strong></a> <a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/gb/book/dead-mens-socks-short-reads/id409366072?mt=11\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>iTunes</strong></a> <strong> </strong><strong><a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Dead-Mens-Socks-Short-Reads/dp/B004FV4RWC\" target=\"_blank\">Kindle non-UK </a>(including US sales)</strong>','The Fallen Angel — the ninth Costa novel','','inherit','open','open','','6622-autosave','','','2011-04-21 08:27:25','2011-04-21 07:27:25','',6622,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/6622-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(7657,1,'2011-03-05 20:53:07','2011-03-05 20:53:07','<img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6616\" title=\"The Fallen Angel\" src=\"http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//wp-content/uploads/2011/01/fallen-angel-uk-small1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"297\" />\r\n\r\nWhen British academic Malise Gabriel falls to his death from a Rome apartment, detective Nic Costa rapidly comes to realise that there is much more to the accident than he first thought. It also becomes apparent that Malise\'s family -- mysterious and tragic daughter Mina, stoic wife Cecilia and troubled son Robert -- may be keeping vital information hidden.\r\n\r\nCosta becomes obsessed with the case, intrigued by Mina\'s story which seems to be linked to the sixteenth-century real-life tragedy of a young Italian noblewoman, Beatrice Cenci.\r\n\r\nAs the investigation deepens, Rome\'s dark and seedy side is uncovered, revealing a tangle of deceit, treachery and corruption. Costa realises that the key to the truth lies with the Gabriels. Why are they so unwilling to co-operate, and who, or what, is the reason for their silence? <em>The ninth novel in the Costa series is available from Macmillan in the UK and will be published by Delacorte in the US on April 26, 2011.</em>\r\n<blockquote>Intricately plotted and gorgeously written, THE FALLEN ANGEL weaves a spell that will entrap you until the final page. David Hewson\'s Rome is dark and tantalizing, seductive and dangerous, a place where present-day crimes ring with the echoes of history.\r\n\r\nTess Gerritsen, author of THE KILLING PLACE</blockquote>\r\n<a title=\"The Fallen Angel\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/books/the-nic-costa-series/the-fallen-angel/\">Read more about the new book and see some of David\'s research photos for the novel taken in Rome. </a>\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>A new Roman tale for download</strong>\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6426\" title=\"Dead Men\'s Socks\" src=\"http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//wp-content/uploads/2010/12/dead-mens-socks1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"176\" height=\"266\" />\r\n\r\nGianni Peroni is feeling at a loose end. Mooching around with no boss at hand he wanders into the Questura morgue and sees Teresa’s deputy staring at two newly-arrived corpses. One is the body of a wealthy psychiatrist recovered from the river, apparently after committing suicide. The second is that of a young Roma petty criminal, seemingly beaten to death in a different part of the city, perhaps as some gang vendetta.\r\n\r\nPeroni watches the pathologist start to work with the corpses and notices something extraordinary. Both are wearing odd socks. <em>Identical</em> odd socks.\r\n\r\nSo begins <em><a title=\"Dead Men’s Socks — a Roman short story\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/books/the-nic-costa-series/dead-mens-socks-a-roman-short-story/\">Dead Men\'s Socks</a>, </em>a brand new 10,000-word Rome short story featuring one of the series\' most popular characters. Out now with instant download as part of the new Pan Macmillan Short Reads initiative.\r\n\r\n<strong>Get </strong><strong><em>Dead Men’s Socks </em>for 99p now</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dead-Mens-Socks-Short-Reads/dp/B004FV4RWC\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Kindle UK</strong></a> <a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/gb/book/dead-mens-socks-short-reads/id409366072?mt=11\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>iTunes</strong></a> <strong> </strong><strong><a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Dead-Mens-Socks-Short-Reads/dp/B004FV4RWC\" target=\"_blank\">Kindle non-UK </a>(including US sales)</strong>','The Fallen Angel — the ninth Costa novel','','inherit','open','open','','6622-revision-3','','','2011-03-05 20:53:07','2011-03-05 20:53:07','',6622,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/6622-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(7658,1,'2011-03-05 20:54:36','2011-03-05 20:54:36','<img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6616\" title=\"The Fallen Angel\" src=\"http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//wp-content/uploads/2011/01/fallen-angel-uk-small1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"297\" />\r\n\r\n<h2>The Fallen Angel — the ninth Costa novel</h2>\r\n\r\nWhen British academic Malise Gabriel falls to his death from a Rome apartment, detective Nic Costa rapidly comes to realise that there is much more to the accident than he first thought. It also becomes apparent that Malise\'s family -- mysterious and tragic daughter Mina, stoic wife Cecilia and troubled son Robert -- may be keeping vital information hidden.\r\n\r\nCosta becomes obsessed with the case, intrigued by Mina\'s story which seems to be linked to the sixteenth-century real-life tragedy of a young Italian noblewoman, Beatrice Cenci.\r\n\r\nAs the investigation deepens, Rome\'s dark and seedy side is uncovered, revealing a tangle of deceit, treachery and corruption. Costa realises that the key to the truth lies with the Gabriels. Why are they so unwilling to co-operate, and who, or what, is the reason for their silence? <em>The ninth novel in the Costa series is available from Macmillan in the UK and will be published by Delacorte in the US on April 26, 2011.</em>\r\n<blockquote>Intricately plotted and gorgeously written, THE FALLEN ANGEL weaves a spell that will entrap you until the final page. David Hewson\'s Rome is dark and tantalizing, seductive and dangerous, a place where present-day crimes ring with the echoes of history.\r\n\r\nTess Gerritsen, author of THE KILLING PLACE</blockquote>\r\n<a title=\"The Fallen Angel\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/books/the-nic-costa-series/the-fallen-angel/\">Read more about the new book and see some of David\'s research photos for the novel taken in Rome. </a>\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>A new Roman tale for download</strong>\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6426\" title=\"Dead Men\'s Socks\" src=\"http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//wp-content/uploads/2010/12/dead-mens-socks1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"176\" height=\"266\" />\r\n\r\nGianni Peroni is feeling at a loose end. Mooching around with no boss at hand he wanders into the Questura morgue and sees Teresa’s deputy staring at two newly-arrived corpses. One is the body of a wealthy psychiatrist recovered from the river, apparently after committing suicide. The second is that of a young Roma petty criminal, seemingly beaten to death in a different part of the city, perhaps as some gang vendetta.\r\n\r\nPeroni watches the pathologist start to work with the corpses and notices something extraordinary. Both are wearing odd socks. <em>Identical</em> odd socks.\r\n\r\nSo begins <em><a title=\"Dead Men’s Socks — a Roman short story\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/books/the-nic-costa-series/dead-mens-socks-a-roman-short-story/\">Dead Men\'s Socks</a>, </em>a brand new 10,000-word Rome short story featuring one of the series\' most popular characters. Out now with instant download as part of the new Pan Macmillan Short Reads initiative.\r\n\r\n<strong>Get </strong><strong><em>Dead Men’s Socks </em>for 99p now</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dead-Mens-Socks-Short-Reads/dp/B004FV4RWC\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Kindle UK</strong></a> <a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/gb/book/dead-mens-socks-short-reads/id409366072?mt=11\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>iTunes</strong></a> <strong> </strong><strong><a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Dead-Mens-Socks-Short-Reads/dp/B004FV4RWC\" target=\"_blank\">Kindle non-UK </a>(including US sales)</strong>','The Fallen Angel — the ninth Costa novel','','inherit','open','open','','6622-revision-4','','','2011-03-05 20:54:36','2011-03-05 20:54:36','',6622,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/6622-revision-4/',0,'revision','',0),(7659,1,'2011-03-05 20:54:59','2011-03-05 20:54:59','<img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6616\" title=\"The Fallen Angel\" src=\"http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//wp-content/uploads/2011/01/fallen-angel-uk-small1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"297\" />\r\n\r\n<h3>The Fallen Angel — the ninth Costa novel</h3>\r\n\r\nWhen British academic Malise Gabriel falls to his death from a Rome apartment, detective Nic Costa rapidly comes to realise that there is much more to the accident than he first thought. It also becomes apparent that Malise\'s family -- mysterious and tragic daughter Mina, stoic wife Cecilia and troubled son Robert -- may be keeping vital information hidden.\r\n\r\nCosta becomes obsessed with the case, intrigued by Mina\'s story which seems to be linked to the sixteenth-century real-life tragedy of a young Italian noblewoman, Beatrice Cenci.\r\n\r\nAs the investigation deepens, Rome\'s dark and seedy side is uncovered, revealing a tangle of deceit, treachery and corruption. Costa realises that the key to the truth lies with the Gabriels. Why are they so unwilling to co-operate, and who, or what, is the reason for their silence? <em>The ninth novel in the Costa series is available from Macmillan in the UK and will be published by Delacorte in the US on April 26, 2011.</em>\r\n<blockquote>Intricately plotted and gorgeously written, THE FALLEN ANGEL weaves a spell that will entrap you until the final page. David Hewson\'s Rome is dark and tantalizing, seductive and dangerous, a place where present-day crimes ring with the echoes of history.\r\n\r\nTess Gerritsen, author of THE KILLING PLACE</blockquote>\r\n<a title=\"The Fallen Angel\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/books/the-nic-costa-series/the-fallen-angel/\">Read more about the new book and see some of David\'s research photos for the novel taken in Rome. </a>\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>A new Roman tale for download</strong>\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6426\" title=\"Dead Men\'s Socks\" src=\"http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//wp-content/uploads/2010/12/dead-mens-socks1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"176\" height=\"266\" />\r\n\r\nGianni Peroni is feeling at a loose end. Mooching around with no boss at hand he wanders into the Questura morgue and sees Teresa’s deputy staring at two newly-arrived corpses. One is the body of a wealthy psychiatrist recovered from the river, apparently after committing suicide. The second is that of a young Roma petty criminal, seemingly beaten to death in a different part of the city, perhaps as some gang vendetta.\r\n\r\nPeroni watches the pathologist start to work with the corpses and notices something extraordinary. Both are wearing odd socks. <em>Identical</em> odd socks.\r\n\r\nSo begins <em><a title=\"Dead Men’s Socks — a Roman short story\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/books/the-nic-costa-series/dead-mens-socks-a-roman-short-story/\">Dead Men\'s Socks</a>, </em>a brand new 10,000-word Rome short story featuring one of the series\' most popular characters. Out now with instant download as part of the new Pan Macmillan Short Reads initiative.\r\n\r\n<strong>Get </strong><strong><em>Dead Men’s Socks </em>for 99p now</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dead-Mens-Socks-Short-Reads/dp/B004FV4RWC\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Kindle UK</strong></a> <a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/gb/book/dead-mens-socks-short-reads/id409366072?mt=11\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>iTunes</strong></a> <strong> </strong><strong><a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Dead-Mens-Socks-Short-Reads/dp/B004FV4RWC\" target=\"_blank\">Kindle non-UK </a>(including US sales)</strong>','The Fallen Angel — the ninth Costa novel','','inherit','open','open','','6622-revision-5','','','2011-03-05 20:54:59','2011-03-05 20:54:59','',6622,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/6622-revision-5/',0,'revision','',0),(7660,1,'2011-03-05 20:55:27','2011-03-05 20:55:27','<img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6616\" title=\"The Fallen Angel\" src=\"http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//wp-content/uploads/2011/01/fallen-angel-uk-small1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"297\" />\r\n\r\n<h3>The ninth Nic Costa novel is here</h3>\r\n\r\nWhen British academic Malise Gabriel falls to his death from a Rome apartment, detective Nic Costa rapidly comes to realise that there is much more to the accident than he first thought. It also becomes apparent that Malise\'s family -- mysterious and tragic daughter Mina, stoic wife Cecilia and troubled son Robert -- may be keeping vital information hidden.\r\n\r\nCosta becomes obsessed with the case, intrigued by Mina\'s story which seems to be linked to the sixteenth-century real-life tragedy of a young Italian noblewoman, Beatrice Cenci.\r\n\r\nAs the investigation deepens, Rome\'s dark and seedy side is uncovered, revealing a tangle of deceit, treachery and corruption. Costa realises that the key to the truth lies with the Gabriels. Why are they so unwilling to co-operate, and who, or what, is the reason for their silence? <em>The ninth novel in the Costa series is available from Macmillan in the UK and will be published by Delacorte in the US on April 26, 2011.</em>\r\n<blockquote>Intricately plotted and gorgeously written, THE FALLEN ANGEL weaves a spell that will entrap you until the final page. David Hewson\'s Rome is dark and tantalizing, seductive and dangerous, a place where present-day crimes ring with the echoes of history.\r\n\r\nTess Gerritsen, author of THE KILLING PLACE</blockquote>\r\n<a title=\"The Fallen Angel\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/books/the-nic-costa-series/the-fallen-angel/\">Read more about the new book and see some of David\'s research photos for the novel taken in Rome. </a>\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>A new Roman tale for download</strong>\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6426\" title=\"Dead Men\'s Socks\" src=\"http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//wp-content/uploads/2010/12/dead-mens-socks1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"176\" height=\"266\" />\r\n\r\nGianni Peroni is feeling at a loose end. Mooching around with no boss at hand he wanders into the Questura morgue and sees Teresa’s deputy staring at two newly-arrived corpses. One is the body of a wealthy psychiatrist recovered from the river, apparently after committing suicide. The second is that of a young Roma petty criminal, seemingly beaten to death in a different part of the city, perhaps as some gang vendetta.\r\n\r\nPeroni watches the pathologist start to work with the corpses and notices something extraordinary. Both are wearing odd socks. <em>Identical</em> odd socks.\r\n\r\nSo begins <em><a title=\"Dead Men’s Socks — a Roman short story\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/books/the-nic-costa-series/dead-mens-socks-a-roman-short-story/\">Dead Men\'s Socks</a>, </em>a brand new 10,000-word Rome short story featuring one of the series\' most popular characters. Out now with instant download as part of the new Pan Macmillan Short Reads initiative.\r\n\r\n<strong>Get </strong><strong><em>Dead Men’s Socks </em>for 99p now</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dead-Mens-Socks-Short-Reads/dp/B004FV4RWC\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Kindle UK</strong></a> <a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/gb/book/dead-mens-socks-short-reads/id409366072?mt=11\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>iTunes</strong></a> <strong> </strong><strong><a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Dead-Mens-Socks-Short-Reads/dp/B004FV4RWC\" target=\"_blank\">Kindle non-UK </a>(including US sales)</strong>','The Fallen Angel — the ninth Costa novel','','inherit','open','open','','6622-revision-6','','','2011-03-05 20:55:27','2011-03-05 20:55:27','',6622,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/6622-revision-6/',0,'revision','',0),(7661,1,'2011-03-05 20:56:14','2011-03-05 20:56:14','<img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6616\" title=\"The Fallen Angel\" src=\"http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//wp-content/uploads/2011/01/fallen-angel-uk-small1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"297\" />\r\n<h3>The ninth Nic Costa novel is here</h3>\r\nWhen British academic Malise Gabriel falls to his death from a Rome apartment, detective Nic Costa rapidly comes to realise that there is much more to the accident than he first thought. It also becomes apparent that Malise\'s family -- mysterious and tragic daughter Mina, stoic wife Cecilia and troubled son Robert -- may be keeping vital information hidden.\r\n\r\nCosta becomes obsessed with the case, intrigued by Mina\'s story which seems to be linked to the sixteenth-century real-life tragedy of a young Italian noblewoman, Beatrice Cenci.\r\n\r\nAs the investigation deepens, Rome\'s dark and seedy side is uncovered, revealing a tangle of deceit, treachery and corruption. Costa realises that the key to the truth lies with the Gabriels. Why are they so unwilling to co-operate, and who, or what, is the reason for their silence? <em>The ninth novel in the Costa series is available from Macmillan in the UK and will be published by Delacorte in the US on April 26, 2011.</em>\r\n<blockquote>Intricately plotted and gorgeously written, THE FALLEN ANGEL weaves a spell that will entrap you until the final page. David Hewson\'s Rome is dark and tantalizing, seductive and dangerous, a place where present-day crimes ring with the echoes of history.\r\n\r\nTess Gerritsen, author of THE KILLING PLACE</blockquote>\r\n<a title=\"The Fallen Angel\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/books/the-nic-costa-series/the-fallen-angel/\">Read more about the new book and see some of David\'s research photos for the novel taken in Rome. </a>\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>A new Roman tale for download</strong>\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6426\" title=\"Dead Men\'s Socks\" src=\"http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//wp-content/uploads/2010/12/dead-mens-socks1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"176\" height=\"266\" />\r\n\r\nGianni Peroni is feeling at a loose end. Mooching around with no boss at hand he wanders into the Questura morgue and sees Teresa’s deputy staring at two newly-arrived corpses. One is the body of a wealthy psychiatrist recovered from the river, apparently after committing suicide. The second is that of a young Roma petty criminal, seemingly beaten to death in a different part of the city, perhaps as some gang vendetta.\r\n\r\nPeroni watches the pathologist start to work with the corpses and notices something extraordinary. Both are wearing odd socks. <em>Identical</em> odd socks.\r\n\r\nSo begins <em><a title=\"Dead Men’s Socks — a Roman short story\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/books/the-nic-costa-series/dead-mens-socks-a-roman-short-story/\">Dead Men\'s Socks</a>, </em>a brand new 10,000-word Rome short story featuring one of the series\' most popular characters. Out now with instant download as part of the new Pan Macmillan Short Reads initiative.\r\n\r\n<strong>Get </strong><strong><em>Dead Men’s Socks </em>for 99p now</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dead-Mens-Socks-Short-Reads/dp/B004FV4RWC\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Kindle UK</strong></a> <a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/gb/book/dead-mens-socks-short-reads/id409366072?mt=11\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>iTunes</strong></a> <strong> </strong><strong><a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Dead-Mens-Socks-Short-Reads/dp/B004FV4RWC\" target=\"_blank\">Kindle non-UK </a>(including US sales)</strong>','The Fallen Angel — the ninth Costa novel','','inherit','open','open','','6622-revision-7','','','2011-03-05 20:56:14','2011-03-05 20:56:14','',6622,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/6622-revision-7/',0,'revision','',0),(7662,1,'2011-03-05 20:56:44','2011-03-05 20:56:44','<img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6616\" title=\"The Fallen Angel\" src=\"http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//wp-content/uploads/2011/01/fallen-angel-uk-small1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"297\" /><strong>The ninth Nic Costa novel is here</strong>\r\n\r\nWhen British academic Malise Gabriel falls to his death from a Rome apartment, detective Nic Costa rapidly comes to realise that there is much more to the accident than he first thought. It also becomes apparent that Malise\'s family -- mysterious and tragic daughter Mina, stoic wife Cecilia and troubled son Robert -- may be keeping vital information hidden.\r\n\r\nCosta becomes obsessed with the case, intrigued by Mina\'s story which seems to be linked to the sixteenth-century real-life tragedy of a young Italian noblewoman, Beatrice Cenci.\r\n\r\nAs the investigation deepens, Rome\'s dark and seedy side is uncovered, revealing a tangle of deceit, treachery and corruption. Costa realises that the key to the truth lies with the Gabriels. Why are they so unwilling to co-operate, and who, or what, is the reason for their silence? <em>The ninth novel in the Costa series is available from Macmillan in the UK and will be published by Delacorte in the US on April 26, 2011.</em>\r\n<blockquote>Intricately plotted and gorgeously written, THE FALLEN ANGEL weaves a spell that will entrap you until the final page. David Hewson\'s Rome is dark and tantalizing, seductive and dangerous, a place where present-day crimes ring with the echoes of history.\r\n\r\nTess Gerritsen, author of THE KILLING PLACE</blockquote>\r\n<a title=\"The Fallen Angel\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/books/the-nic-costa-series/the-fallen-angel/\">Read more about the new book and see some of David\'s research photos for the novel taken in Rome. </a>\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>A new Roman tale for download</strong>\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6426\" title=\"Dead Men\'s Socks\" src=\"http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//wp-content/uploads/2010/12/dead-mens-socks1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"176\" height=\"266\" />\r\n\r\nGianni Peroni is feeling at a loose end. Mooching around with no boss at hand he wanders into the Questura morgue and sees Teresa’s deputy staring at two newly-arrived corpses. One is the body of a wealthy psychiatrist recovered from the river, apparently after committing suicide. The second is that of a young Roma petty criminal, seemingly beaten to death in a different part of the city, perhaps as some gang vendetta.\r\n\r\nPeroni watches the pathologist start to work with the corpses and notices something extraordinary. Both are wearing odd socks. <em>Identical</em> odd socks.\r\n\r\nSo begins <em><a title=\"Dead Men’s Socks — a Roman short story\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/books/the-nic-costa-series/dead-mens-socks-a-roman-short-story/\">Dead Men\'s Socks</a>, </em>a brand new 10,000-word Rome short story featuring one of the series\' most popular characters. Out now with instant download as part of the new Pan Macmillan Short Reads initiative.\r\n\r\n<strong>Get </strong><strong><em>Dead Men’s Socks </em>for 99p now</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dead-Mens-Socks-Short-Reads/dp/B004FV4RWC\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Kindle UK</strong></a> <a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/gb/book/dead-mens-socks-short-reads/id409366072?mt=11\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>iTunes</strong></a> <strong> </strong><strong><a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Dead-Mens-Socks-Short-Reads/dp/B004FV4RWC\" target=\"_blank\">Kindle non-UK </a>(including US sales)</strong>','The Fallen Angel — the ninth Costa novel','','inherit','open','open','','6622-revision-8','','','2011-03-05 20:56:44','2011-03-05 20:56:44','',6622,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/6622-revision-8/',0,'revision','',0),(7663,1,'2011-03-05 20:57:26','2011-03-05 20:57:26','<img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6616\" title=\"The Fallen Angel\" src=\"http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//wp-content/uploads/2011/01/fallen-angel-uk-small1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"297\" /><h3>The ninth Nic Costa novel is here</h3>\r\n\r\nWhen British academic Malise Gabriel falls to his death from a Rome apartment, detective Nic Costa rapidly comes to realise that there is much more to the accident than he first thought. It also becomes apparent that Malise\'s family -- mysterious and tragic daughter Mina, stoic wife Cecilia and troubled son Robert -- may be keeping vital information hidden.\r\n\r\nCosta becomes obsessed with the case, intrigued by Mina\'s story which seems to be linked to the sixteenth-century real-life tragedy of a young Italian noblewoman, Beatrice Cenci.\r\n\r\nAs the investigation deepens, Rome\'s dark and seedy side is uncovered, revealing a tangle of deceit, treachery and corruption. Costa realises that the key to the truth lies with the Gabriels. Why are they so unwilling to co-operate, and who, or what, is the reason for their silence? <em>The ninth novel in the Costa series is available from Macmillan in the UK and will be published by Delacorte in the US on April 26, 2011.</em>\r\n<blockquote>Intricately plotted and gorgeously written, THE FALLEN ANGEL weaves a spell that will entrap you until the final page. David Hewson\'s Rome is dark and tantalizing, seductive and dangerous, a place where present-day crimes ring with the echoes of history.\r\n\r\nTess Gerritsen, author of THE KILLING PLACE</blockquote>\r\n<a title=\"The Fallen Angel\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/books/the-nic-costa-series/the-fallen-angel/\">Read more about the new book and see some of David\'s research photos for the novel taken in Rome. </a>\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>A new Roman tale for download</strong>\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6426\" title=\"Dead Men\'s Socks\" src=\"http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//wp-content/uploads/2010/12/dead-mens-socks1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"176\" height=\"266\" />\r\n\r\nGianni Peroni is feeling at a loose end. Mooching around with no boss at hand he wanders into the Questura morgue and sees Teresa’s deputy staring at two newly-arrived corpses. One is the body of a wealthy psychiatrist recovered from the river, apparently after committing suicide. The second is that of a young Roma petty criminal, seemingly beaten to death in a different part of the city, perhaps as some gang vendetta.\r\n\r\nPeroni watches the pathologist start to work with the corpses and notices something extraordinary. Both are wearing odd socks. <em>Identical</em> odd socks.\r\n\r\nSo begins <em><a title=\"Dead Men’s Socks — a Roman short story\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/books/the-nic-costa-series/dead-mens-socks-a-roman-short-story/\">Dead Men\'s Socks</a>, </em>a brand new 10,000-word Rome short story featuring one of the series\' most popular characters. Out now with instant download as part of the new Pan Macmillan Short Reads initiative.\r\n\r\n<strong>Get </strong><strong><em>Dead Men’s Socks </em>for 99p now</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dead-Mens-Socks-Short-Reads/dp/B004FV4RWC\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Kindle UK</strong></a> <a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/gb/book/dead-mens-socks-short-reads/id409366072?mt=11\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>iTunes</strong></a> <strong> </strong><strong><a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Dead-Mens-Socks-Short-Reads/dp/B004FV4RWC\" target=\"_blank\">Kindle non-UK </a>(including US sales)</strong>','The Fallen Angel — the ninth Costa novel','','inherit','open','open','','6622-revision-9','','','2011-03-05 20:57:26','2011-03-05 20:57:26','',6622,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/6622-revision-9/',0,'revision','',0),(7664,1,'2011-03-05 20:57:52','2011-03-05 20:57:52','<h3>The ninth Nic Costa novel is here</h3><img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6616\" title=\"The Fallen Angel\" src=\"http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//wp-content/uploads/2011/01/fallen-angel-uk-small1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"297\" />\r\n\r\nWhen British academic Malise Gabriel falls to his death from a Rome apartment, detective Nic Costa rapidly comes to realise that there is much more to the accident than he first thought. It also becomes apparent that Malise\'s family -- mysterious and tragic daughter Mina, stoic wife Cecilia and troubled son Robert -- may be keeping vital information hidden.\r\n\r\nCosta becomes obsessed with the case, intrigued by Mina\'s story which seems to be linked to the sixteenth-century real-life tragedy of a young Italian noblewoman, Beatrice Cenci.\r\n\r\nAs the investigation deepens, Rome\'s dark and seedy side is uncovered, revealing a tangle of deceit, treachery and corruption. Costa realises that the key to the truth lies with the Gabriels. Why are they so unwilling to co-operate, and who, or what, is the reason for their silence? <em>The ninth novel in the Costa series is available from Macmillan in the UK and will be published by Delacorte in the US on April 26, 2011.</em>\r\n<blockquote>Intricately plotted and gorgeously written, THE FALLEN ANGEL weaves a spell that will entrap you until the final page. David Hewson\'s Rome is dark and tantalizing, seductive and dangerous, a place where present-day crimes ring with the echoes of history.\r\n\r\nTess Gerritsen, author of THE KILLING PLACE</blockquote>\r\n<a title=\"The Fallen Angel\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/books/the-nic-costa-series/the-fallen-angel/\">Read more about the new book and see some of David\'s research photos for the novel taken in Rome. </a>\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>A new Roman tale for download</strong>\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6426\" title=\"Dead Men\'s Socks\" src=\"http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//wp-content/uploads/2010/12/dead-mens-socks1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"176\" height=\"266\" />\r\n\r\nGianni Peroni is feeling at a loose end. Mooching around with no boss at hand he wanders into the Questura morgue and sees Teresa’s deputy staring at two newly-arrived corpses. One is the body of a wealthy psychiatrist recovered from the river, apparently after committing suicide. The second is that of a young Roma petty criminal, seemingly beaten to death in a different part of the city, perhaps as some gang vendetta.\r\n\r\nPeroni watches the pathologist start to work with the corpses and notices something extraordinary. Both are wearing odd socks. <em>Identical</em> odd socks.\r\n\r\nSo begins <em><a title=\"Dead Men’s Socks — a Roman short story\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/books/the-nic-costa-series/dead-mens-socks-a-roman-short-story/\">Dead Men\'s Socks</a>, </em>a brand new 10,000-word Rome short story featuring one of the series\' most popular characters. Out now with instant download as part of the new Pan Macmillan Short Reads initiative.\r\n\r\n<strong>Get </strong><strong><em>Dead Men’s Socks </em>for 99p now</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dead-Mens-Socks-Short-Reads/dp/B004FV4RWC\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Kindle UK</strong></a> <a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/gb/book/dead-mens-socks-short-reads/id409366072?mt=11\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>iTunes</strong></a> <strong> </strong><strong><a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Dead-Mens-Socks-Short-Reads/dp/B004FV4RWC\" target=\"_blank\">Kindle non-UK </a>(including US sales)</strong>','The Fallen Angel — the ninth Costa novel','','inherit','open','open','','6622-revision-10','','','2011-03-05 20:57:52','2011-03-05 20:57:52','',6622,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/6622-revision-10/',0,'revision','',0),(7665,1,'2011-03-05 20:58:26','2011-03-05 20:58:26','<img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6616\" title=\"The Fallen Angel\" src=\"http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//wp-content/uploads/2011/01/fallen-angel-uk-small1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"297\" />\r\n<h3>The ninth Nic Costa novel is here</h3>\r\nWhen British academic Malise Gabriel falls to his death from a Rome apartment, detective Nic Costa rapidly comes to realise that there is much more to the accident than he first thought. It also becomes apparent that Malise\'s family -- mysterious and tragic daughter Mina, stoic wife Cecilia and troubled son Robert -- may be keeping vital information hidden.\r\n\r\nCosta becomes obsessed with the case, intrigued by Mina\'s story which seems to be linked to the sixteenth-century real-life tragedy of a young Italian noblewoman, Beatrice Cenci.\r\n\r\nAs the investigation deepens, Rome\'s dark and seedy side is uncovered, revealing a tangle of deceit, treachery and corruption. Costa realises that the key to the truth lies with the Gabriels. Why are they so unwilling to co-operate, and who, or what, is the reason for their silence? <em>The ninth novel in the Costa series is available from Macmillan in the UK and will be published by Delacorte in the US on April 26, 2011.</em>\r\n<blockquote>Intricately plotted and gorgeously written, THE FALLEN ANGEL weaves a spell that will entrap you until the final page. David Hewson\'s Rome is dark and tantalizing, seductive and dangerous, a place where present-day crimes ring with the echoes of history.\r\n\r\nTess Gerritsen, author of THE KILLING PLACE</blockquote>\r\n<a title=\"The Fallen Angel\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/books/the-nic-costa-series/the-fallen-angel/\">Read more about the new book and see some of David\'s research photos for the novel taken in Rome. </a>\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>A new Roman tale for download</strong>\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6426\" title=\"Dead Men\'s Socks\" src=\"http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//wp-content/uploads/2010/12/dead-mens-socks1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"176\" height=\"266\" />\r\n\r\nGianni Peroni is feeling at a loose end. Mooching around with no boss at hand he wanders into the Questura morgue and sees Teresa’s deputy staring at two newly-arrived corpses. One is the body of a wealthy psychiatrist recovered from the river, apparently after committing suicide. The second is that of a young Roma petty criminal, seemingly beaten to death in a different part of the city, perhaps as some gang vendetta.\r\n\r\nPeroni watches the pathologist start to work with the corpses and notices something extraordinary. Both are wearing odd socks. <em>Identical</em> odd socks.\r\n\r\nSo begins <em><a title=\"Dead Men’s Socks — a Roman short story\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/books/the-nic-costa-series/dead-mens-socks-a-roman-short-story/\">Dead Men\'s Socks</a>, </em>a brand new 10,000-word Rome short story featuring one of the series\' most popular characters. Out now with instant download as part of the new Pan Macmillan Short Reads initiative.\r\n\r\n<strong>Get </strong><strong><em>Dead Men’s Socks </em>for 99p now</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dead-Mens-Socks-Short-Reads/dp/B004FV4RWC\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Kindle UK</strong></a> <a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/gb/book/dead-mens-socks-short-reads/id409366072?mt=11\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>iTunes</strong></a> <strong> </strong><strong><a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Dead-Mens-Socks-Short-Reads/dp/B004FV4RWC\" target=\"_blank\">Kindle non-UK </a>(including US sales)</strong>','The Fallen Angel — the ninth Costa novel','','inherit','open','open','','6622-revision-11','','','2011-03-05 20:58:26','2011-03-05 20:58:26','',6622,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/6622-revision-11/',0,'revision','',0),(7666,1,'2011-03-05 20:58:48','2011-03-05 20:58:48','<h3>The ninth Nic Costa novel is here</h3>\r\n<img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6616\" title=\"The Fallen Angel\" src=\"http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//wp-content/uploads/2011/01/fallen-angel-uk-small1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"297\" />\r\n\r\nWhen British academic Malise Gabriel falls to his death from a Rome apartment, detective Nic Costa rapidly comes to realise that there is much more to the accident than he first thought. It also becomes apparent that Malise\'s family -- mysterious and tragic daughter Mina, stoic wife Cecilia and troubled son Robert -- may be keeping vital information hidden.\r\n\r\nCosta becomes obsessed with the case, intrigued by Mina\'s story which seems to be linked to the sixteenth-century real-life tragedy of a young Italian noblewoman, Beatrice Cenci.\r\n\r\nAs the investigation deepens, Rome\'s dark and seedy side is uncovered, revealing a tangle of deceit, treachery and corruption. Costa realises that the key to the truth lies with the Gabriels. Why are they so unwilling to co-operate, and who, or what, is the reason for their silence? <em>The ninth novel in the Costa series is available from Macmillan in the UK and will be published by Delacorte in the US on April 26, 2011.</em>\r\n<blockquote>Intricately plotted and gorgeously written, THE FALLEN ANGEL weaves a spell that will entrap you until the final page. David Hewson\'s Rome is dark and tantalizing, seductive and dangerous, a place where present-day crimes ring with the echoes of history.\r\n\r\nTess Gerritsen, author of THE KILLING PLACE</blockquote>\r\n<a title=\"The Fallen Angel\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/books/the-nic-costa-series/the-fallen-angel/\">Read more about the new book and see some of David\'s research photos for the novel taken in Rome. </a>\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>A new Roman tale for download</strong>\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6426\" title=\"Dead Men\'s Socks\" src=\"http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//wp-content/uploads/2010/12/dead-mens-socks1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"176\" height=\"266\" />\r\n\r\nGianni Peroni is feeling at a loose end. Mooching around with no boss at hand he wanders into the Questura morgue and sees Teresa’s deputy staring at two newly-arrived corpses. One is the body of a wealthy psychiatrist recovered from the river, apparently after committing suicide. The second is that of a young Roma petty criminal, seemingly beaten to death in a different part of the city, perhaps as some gang vendetta.\r\n\r\nPeroni watches the pathologist start to work with the corpses and notices something extraordinary. Both are wearing odd socks. <em>Identical</em> odd socks.\r\n\r\nSo begins <em><a title=\"Dead Men’s Socks — a Roman short story\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/books/the-nic-costa-series/dead-mens-socks-a-roman-short-story/\">Dead Men\'s Socks</a>, </em>a brand new 10,000-word Rome short story featuring one of the series\' most popular characters. Out now with instant download as part of the new Pan Macmillan Short Reads initiative.\r\n\r\n<strong>Get </strong><strong><em>Dead Men’s Socks </em>for 99p now</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dead-Mens-Socks-Short-Reads/dp/B004FV4RWC\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Kindle UK</strong></a> <a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/gb/book/dead-mens-socks-short-reads/id409366072?mt=11\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>iTunes</strong></a> <strong> </strong><strong><a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Dead-Mens-Socks-Short-Reads/dp/B004FV4RWC\" target=\"_blank\">Kindle non-UK </a>(including US sales)</strong>','The Fallen Angel — the ninth Costa novel','','inherit','open','open','','6622-revision-12','','','2011-03-05 20:58:48','2011-03-05 20:58:48','',6622,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/6622-revision-12/',0,'revision','',0),(7667,1,'2011-03-05 20:59:08','2011-03-05 20:59:08','<h3>The ninth Nic Costa novel is here</h3>\r\n<img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6616\" title=\"The Fallen Angel\" src=\"http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//wp-content/uploads/2011/01/fallen-angel-uk-small1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"297\" />\r\n\r\nWhen British academic Malise Gabriel falls to his death from a Rome apartment, detective Nic Costa rapidly comes to realise that there is much more to the accident than he first thought. It also becomes apparent that Malise\'s family -- mysterious and tragic daughter Mina, stoic wife Cecilia and troubled son Robert -- may be keeping vital information hidden.\r\n\r\nCosta becomes obsessed with the case, intrigued by Mina\'s story which seems to be linked to the sixteenth-century real-life tragedy of a young Italian noblewoman, Beatrice Cenci.\r\n\r\nAs the investigation deepens, Rome\'s dark and seedy side is uncovered, revealing a tangle of deceit, treachery and corruption. Costa realises that the key to the truth lies with the Gabriels. Why are they so unwilling to co-operate, and who, or what, is the reason for their silence? <em>The ninth novel in the Costa series is available from Macmillan in the UK and will be published by Delacorte in the US on April 26, 2011.</em>\r\n<blockquote>Intricately plotted and gorgeously written, THE FALLEN ANGEL weaves a spell that will entrap you until the final page. David Hewson\'s Rome is dark and tantalizing, seductive and dangerous, a place where present-day crimes ring with the echoes of history.\r\n\r\nTess Gerritsen, author of THE KILLING PLACE</blockquote>\r\n<a title=\"The Fallen Angel\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/books/the-nic-costa-series/the-fallen-angel/\">Read more about the new book and see some of David\'s research photos for the novel taken in Rome. </a>\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>A new Roman tale for download</strong>\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6426\" title=\"Dead Men\'s Socks\" src=\"http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//wp-content/uploads/2010/12/dead-mens-socks1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"176\" height=\"266\" />\r\n\r\nGianni Peroni is feeling at a loose end. Mooching around with no boss at hand he wanders into the Questura morgue and sees Teresa’s deputy staring at two newly-arrived corpses. One is the body of a wealthy psychiatrist recovered from the river, apparently after committing suicide. The second is that of a young Roma petty criminal, seemingly beaten to death in a different part of the city, perhaps as some gang vendetta.\r\n\r\nPeroni watches the pathologist start to work with the corpses and notices something extraordinary. Both are wearing odd socks. <em>Identical</em> odd socks.\r\n\r\nSo begins <em><a title=\"Dead Men’s Socks — a Roman short story\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/books/the-nic-costa-series/dead-mens-socks-a-roman-short-story/\">Dead Men\'s Socks</a>, </em>a brand new 10,000-word Rome short story featuring one of the series\' most popular characters. Out now with instant download as part of the new Pan Macmillan Short Reads initiative.\r\n\r\n<strong>Get </strong><strong><em>Dead Men’s Socks </em>for 99p now</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dead-Mens-Socks-Short-Reads/dp/B004FV4RWC\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Kindle UK</strong></a> <a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/gb/book/dead-mens-socks-short-reads/id409366072?mt=11\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>iTunes</strong></a> <strong> </strong><strong><a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Dead-Mens-Socks-Short-Reads/dp/B004FV4RWC\" target=\"_blank\">Kindle non-UK </a>(including US sales)</strong>','The Fallen Angel — the ninth Costa novel','','inherit','open','open','','6622-revision-13','','','2011-03-05 20:59:08','2011-03-05 20:59:08','',6622,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/6622-revision-13/',0,'revision','',0),(7668,1,'2011-03-05 11:10:05','2011-03-05 11:10:05','<a href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judith-and-the-Holy-Ferns/dp/B004QGYAFU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=digital-text&amp;qid=1299226074&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7588\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"Judith\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Judith-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" /></a>Today Amazon published my first direct from Scrivener-to-Kindle work, a short story set in Rome, though not part of the Costa series, called <em><a title=\"Judith and the Holy Ferns\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/standalones/judith-and-the-holy-ferns/\">Judith and the Holy Ferns</a>. </em>I put this up because it\'s an unusual piece of work I\'d quite like to get out there, but also as a test of how easy it is to go from Scrivener 2 to Kindle with no intermediate apps or conversions.\r\n\r\nI\'m also interested in seeing how many people will think it worth reading; you can <a href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judith-and-the-Holy-Ferns/dp/B004QGYAFU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=digital-text&amp;qid=1299226074&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">find it in the UK store here</a> and <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Judith-Holy-Ferns-ebook/dp/B004QGYAFU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;m=A7B2F8DUJ88VZ&amp;s=digital-text&amp;qid=1299226147&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">in the US one here</a>. It\'s priced at 94p (including VAT which applies to ebooks, sigh) in the UK. I tried to match my Macmillan short story of a similar length, <em>Dead Men\'s Shoes</em>, which is 99p, but you have to enter the net price in Kindle and let the system calculate the VAT (and clearly I got that 5p short). In the US it\'s $1.84 again to match the Macmillan pricing.\r\n\r\nBelow is a step-by-step guide detailing how I got this 9000-word story from Scrivener on to Kindle, so that those of you wanting to do the same can see in detail how it happened.\r\n\r\nFirst, watch this video which is produced by the Scrivener people. It begins by describing the process involved in producing an epub ebook, the kind used by iBooks and other places. I haven\'t put this work up on iBooks; to do it directly demands you get an ISBN, which is a pain frankly, and overkill for a 99p short story, nor do I have the time right now to deal with iBook aggregators. Besides, I think Kindle wipes the floor with every other ebook delivery system. It\'s quick, easy and very, very popular.  The process for getting a Kindle file follows the epub pattern in the video. Part way through you will see how to choose Kindle over epub.\r\n\r\n[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cgJ8x-R86M[/youtube]\r\n\r\nTo go further you will need to be signed up for Kindle Digital Publishing and to have <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&amp;docId=1000234621\" target=\"_blank\">downloaded the KindleGen plugin and the Kindle Previewer here.</a> Note: it only works on Intel Macs running 10.5 or higher. So Tiger users won\'t be able to take advantage of it (this is an Amazon limitation, not a Scrivener one).\r\n\r\nAll done? Next, get yourself a cover, a jpeg 600 x 800 at 72 dpi. It will appear on Kindle hardware in black and white, but not everyone uses Kindle hardware. Kindle apps are very popular too. So my advice is: choose a cover that\'s colour and will work in both. The Kindle Previewer will show you what it looks like in black and white.\r\n\r\nMy cover for <em>Judith and the Holy Ferns</em> is light and minimal and self-produced. Flashy cover designs are essential in paper book publishing where they are used to generate advance sales from retailers among other things. I\'m not entirely convinced they are so high on the buy/don\'t buy process in epublishing, but that\'s a discussion for another time. This is a 99p short story. I\'m not forking out $1000 for a commercial book cover.\r\n\r\nWhen you have a suitable jpeg drag it somewhere into the Binder in your Scrivener project so that it sits as a separate file like this. This is important. You can\'t import that cover into your final Kindle file if it\'s outside Scrivener.\r\n\r\nNow go to the Compile option in the File Menu.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Contents1.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7616\" title=\"Contents\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Contents1-640x600.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"595\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWe will be running down the list of processes on the left and dealing with the options as they go. The first is obvious -- contents. This will determine the text elements in the manuscript you want to go into the finished book. There are just three chapters in this short story, each with names and manual chapter numbers. So I don\'t need to worry about auto chapter numbering (which is possible and the video shows how). I just tick the chapters I want to include.\r\n\r\nNext comes formatting.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Formatting1.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7617\" title=\"Formatting\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Formatting1-640x599.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"594\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis isn\'t text and font size -- Kindle takes care of that for you. This is to do with how chapter headings are dealt with. If your book is hierarchical -- parts and chapters, for example -- this is where you dictate that those headings are different to the body text. I only have Level 1 text documents in here -- the third option. So while the others are ticked they won\'t have any effect. I\'ve changed the header setting to Heading 3 (just put your cursor next to title) to make it bigger than the body text and on the right I\'ve inserted Page padding of eight lines. This will make new chapters start a little way down the page, something that\'s becoming popular in ebook formatting.\r\n\r\nProcessing options...\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Processing.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7602\" title=\"Processing\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Processing-640x533.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"528\" /></a>\r\n\r\nBy clicking \'Do not add page padding to the first document\' I make sure the first chapter of the book starts at the top of the page, which I prefer. This is just personal taste. I don\'t need to do anything with the other options.\r\n\r\nSeparators...\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Separators.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7603\" title=\"Separators\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Separators-640x598.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"593\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis threw me at first and caused my one hiccup. I had the text set to break to a new line between sections. In order to generate proper chapter headings and a table of contents (and Kindle likes TOCs, even for small documents) you need to separate everything with a section break. Otherwise you will get nagged for not having a TOC.\r\n\r\nCover... just pick the jpeg you already have in your Scrivener binder which will appear as an option in the popup.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Cover2.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7605\" title=\"Cover2\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Cover2-640x533.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"528\" /></a>\r\n\r\nE-Book options... these will give you a TOC that Kindle will like.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Ebook-options.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7606\" title=\"Ebook options\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Ebook-options-640x526.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"521\" /></a>\r\n\r\nText Options...\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Text-options.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7607\" title=\"Text options\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Text-options-640x531.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"526\" /></a>\r\n\r\nYou can clean up text if you want here -- I don\'t need to.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/html-options.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7608\" title=\"html options\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/html-options-640x596.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"591\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis doesn\'t apply to a short story with no internal links, but I left it selected anyway. But if you use internal wiki-like links in Scrivener this will recreate them in the Kindle document, which could be useful for non-fiction projects.\r\n\r\nFinally, as far as a modest project like this is concerned... Meta-Data.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Metadata.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7609\" title=\"Metadata\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Metadata-640x597.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"592\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThis is where you deal with title, publisher and author information. That\'s all you need enter really as far as I can see -- forget about ID numbers and dates. I suspect something ought to be entered under Rights but I don\'t know what and Kindle DRMs the files anyway so it doesn\'t much bother me.\r\n\r\nOne caveat. Kindle demands you put in the author as Last name, First name. The current release version of Scrivener isn\'t happy with this and recognises it as two authors. At the time of writing, early March 2011, you need to download the latest Scrivener beta to get this working properly. <a href=\"http://www.literatureandlatte.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&amp;t=11692\" target=\"_blank\">You can find it here</a>. After that type in Last name, First name and it will work.\r\n\r\nThe final option is simply a link to where the KindleGen plugin is kept on your Mac. The other options can be left for me. After that click Compile and check your output in Kindle Viewer (and a Kindle app too). When you\'re happy with it upload to Kindle Digital Publishing and wait for it to go public after it\'s approved.\r\n\r\nThis is a simple process for a fairly simple short story. Anyone with hierarchical novels, in folders or as sub documents, should take care to get those options right in the Formatting section and to check that the separators are working fine too.\r\n\r\nOnce you have a working system you can save it in the Compile window and simply reload the settings for another publication later. This is getting as close to an automated ebook process as I can imagine right now, and is <em>much</em> slicker than anything that I\'ve seen before for Kindle publication. One more amazing facet in the amazing piece of software that\'s Scrivener.\r\n\r\nBefore long I hope to show you something from this that is rather more complex. But it will require some editing first.\r\n\r\nOh, and do remember. This is processing, not writing. It\'s important, but not as important as the words themselves.','From Scrivener to Kindle step-by-step','','inherit','open','open','','7583-revision-10','','','2011-03-05 11:10:05','2011-03-05 11:10:05','',7583,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7583-revision-10/',0,'revision','',0),(7966,1,'2011-04-06 18:28:43','2011-04-06 17:28:43','Years ago backing up was easy. I gave my mother-in-law a floppy with the latest draft and she kept it in a safe place. Never needed to ask where that safe place was, of course. Because that\'s the truth about backup. You only need it when you don\'t have it. Backup well and regularly and nothing much is likely to go wrong. Let down your guard and...\n\nA few years back a Word file went bad. I didn\'t mind too much. I was paying for Apple\'s MobileMe service at the time, which included twice daily backups to the web. So I went to recover the last version and... it wasn\'t there. The backup service had given up the ghost and never mentioned it. I actually lost something.\n\nAnd to make it worse when I moaned about this to warn people on the Apple forums some 15-year-old geek came along and scolded me. Didn\'t I read the small print? The bit where Apple said their MobileMe backup service \'wasn\'t meant for business\'?\n\nI never did work out how Apple divided the bits and bytes it was supposed to be storing into business ones and personal ones. I did, however, pull my money out of MobileMe and look for other solutions. Multiple solutions because the truth is that, if you\'re paranoid about backup, just one simply will not do.\n\nTo begin with though I didn\'t learn that either. I plugged in one of those 1TB USB hard drives and relied on Time Machine. A few months later I thought I\'d just check how this was going. No, I didn\'t have the Time Machine icon running in the window. Enough clutter up there already. I thought it might beep if it had a problem. It didn\'t. It just stopped working.\n\nSo I restarted that and discovered, after a while, that my Western Digital My Book backup drive would simply go offline from time to time, killing Time Machine too. Worked again if I unplugged it and plugged it back in. But that\'s not the point, is it? I needed to keep on checking the whole thing was working. And sooner or later it wasn\'t.\n\nHere, then, comes the latest solution. Let\'s call it Backup 13 because I\'ve probably been through that many combinations over the years.\n\nFirst... local. I still have the WD My Book. Time Machine still writes to it. But I now have a new bit of kit too, a network drive, the Synology DS111 below.\n\n&nbsp;','The new (final?) backup system is in place','','inherit','open','open','','7965-revision','','','2011-04-06 18:28:43','2011-04-06 17:28:43','',7965,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/04/7965-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(7672,1,'2011-03-05 11:46:54','2011-03-05 11:46:54','<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Judith.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7588\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"Judith\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Judith-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" /></a>Downtrodden, impoverished and frumpy -- in her own eyes at least -- Mary Mackenzie finds herself in Rome with the latest in a long line of abusive \'employers\'. The elderly Mr Carstairs \'works in art\' and has taken her to a painting exhibition, one that turned out to be rather more shocking than she expected.\r\n\r\nNow she finds herself in Babington\'s Tea Rooms getting a lecture from Mr Carstairs on the history of the painting concerned, and her own inadequacies. After which she will be expected, once more, to perform her \'duties\', ones she finds distinctly distasteful.\r\n\r\nBut is the worm about to turn?\r\n\r\n<em>Judith and the Holy Ferns</em> is a 9000-word short story set in Rome but without any of the customary cast from the Costa books. It\'s a two-hander mainly, Mary and Mr Carstairs with one unusual added guest towards the end. Those of us with longish writing careers often end up with pieces like this, ideas that, in this case, hark back to my old love of Roald Dahl (in his adult stories) and Robert Aickman. Slightly odd tales with curious resolutions that don\'t quite resolve.\r\n\r\nA part of me wonders if this might be the beginning of a Costa story, one in which my familiar team take up the challenge Mary and Mr Carstairs leave hanging in the air at the end of this tale.\r\n\r\nOne day perhaps... for now it is just <em>Judith and the Holy Ferns</em>, a short story available only on Kindle. If you want to know how this was done <a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/from-scrivener-to-kindle-step-by-step/\">please read here</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/Judith-and-the-Holy-Ferns/dp/B004QGYAFU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1299228829&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\">Buy from the UK Kindle store for 94p\r\n</a></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Judith-Holy-Ferns-ebook/dp/B004QGYAFU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;m=A7B2F8DUJ88VZ&amp;s=digital-text&amp;qid=1299226147&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">Buy from the US Kindle store for $1.84\r\n</a></strong>','Judith and the Holy Ferns','','inherit','open','open','','7619-revision-7','','','2011-03-05 11:46:54','2011-03-05 11:46:54','',7619,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7619-revision-7/',0,'revision','',0),(7670,1,'2011-03-06 08:33:13','2011-03-06 08:33:13','From time to time I\'ll be producing a few short stories. Details in the menu...','Short stories','','publish','closed','closed','','short-stories','','','2011-03-06 09:05:00','2011-03-06 09:05:00','',0,'http://davidhewson.com/?page_id=7670',0,'page','',0),(7671,1,'2011-03-06 08:33:03','2011-03-06 08:33:03','From time to time I\'ll be producing a few short stories. Details below...','Short stories','','inherit','open','open','','7670-revision','','','2011-03-06 08:33:03','2011-03-06 08:33:03','',7670,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7670-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(7673,1,'2011-02-01 12:50:43','2011-02-01 12:50:43','<a href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dead-Mens-Socks-Short-Reads/dp/B004FV4RWC/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&amp;s=digital-text&amp;qid=1292238291&amp;sr=1-12\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6426\" title=\"Dead Men\'s Socks\" src=\"http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//wp-content/uploads/2010/12/dead-mens-socks1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"330\" /></a>It\'s a quiet day in the Rome Questura. Nic Costa is out on a job. Leo Falcone is on holiday. Teresa Lupo is in Venice on business.\n\nAnd Gianni Peroni is feeling at a loose end. Never a good sign. Mooching around with no boss at hand he wanders into the Questura morgue and sees Teresa\'s deputy staring at two newly-arrived corpses. One is the body of a wealthy psychiatrist recovered from the river, apparently after committing suicide. The second is that of a young Roma petty criminal, seemingly beaten to death in a different part of the city, perhaps as some gang vendetta.\n\nPeroni watches the pathologist start to work with the corpses and notices something extraordinary. Both are wearing odd socks. <em>Identical</em> odd socks.\n\nSo begins a single day in the life of this genial, inquisitive, unruly old cop as he comes up against managerial incompetence, petty bureaucracy and a touch of rampant ageism when he tries to get to the bottom of the riddle.\n\nRejected, Peroni sets out on his own to talk to the relatives of both dead men and try to solve, in a matter of hours, two strange deaths which the sharp young officers in suits he\'s left behind haven\'t begun to unravel.\n\n<em>Dead Men\'s Socks </em>is a 10,000-word short story written for Pan Macmillan\'s new <em>Short Reads</em> digital promotion and available for instant delivery through iBooks, Kindle and Waterstones for just 99p. This is the first short story I\'ve written about my little team in the Rome Questura. I hope you like it -- and that it won\'t be the last.\n\n<strong> Get </strong><strong><em>Dead Men\'s Socks </em>for 99p now</strong>\n\n<a href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dead-Mens-Socks-Short-Reads/dp/B004FV4RWC\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Kindle UK</strong></a>\n\n<a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/gb/book/dead-mens-socks-short-reads/id409366072?mt=11\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>iTunes link</strong></a>\n\n<strong>Waterstones (link coming shortly)</strong>\n\n<strong> </strong>\n\n<strong> </strong>\n\n<strong><a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Dead-Mens-Socks-Short-Reads/dp/B004FV4RWC\" target=\"_blank\">Kindle non-UK </a>(US sales coming shortly)</strong>','Dead Men’s Socks','','inherit','open','open','','6448-revision','','','2011-02-01 12:50:43','2011-02-01 12:50:43','',6448,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/02/6448-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(7674,1,'2011-03-06 08:35:13','2011-03-06 08:35:13','From time to time I’ll be producing a few short stories. Details below…','','','publish','open','open','','7674','','','2011-04-20 16:18:24','2011-04-20 15:18:24','',0,'http://davidhewson.com/?p=7674',12,'nav_menu_item','',0),(7675,1,'2011-03-06 08:57:33','2011-03-06 08:57:33','<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/6a00d8341c7d9d53ef011168ca96aa970c-pi.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7676\" title=\"6a00d8341c7d9d53ef011168ca96aa970c-pi\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/6a00d8341c7d9d53ef011168ca96aa970c-pi-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"116\" height=\"177\" /></a>A young woman sits on the London Tube. A foreign man next to her behaves very oddly then says, \'They will remember my name.\'\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/mammoth+book+of+best+British+crime+8+Maxim+Jakubowski.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7679\" title=\"mammoth+book+of+best+British+crime+8,+Maxim+Jakubowski\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/mammoth+book+of+best+British+crime+8+Maxim+Jakubowski-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"104\" height=\"160\" /></a><em>The Circle</em> is a story set in a city beset by fear. Of terrorism. Of the people sitting next to you on the train. It first appeared in <em>Thriller 2</em> edited by Clive Cussler. I\'m very flattered to say it\'s in <em>The Mammoth Book of Best of British Crime </em>for 2011 too, edited by Maxim Jakubowski.\r\n\r\nHere\'s a review of it from <a href=\"http://thethinkpot.co.uk/blog/2010/10/17/thriller-2/\" target=\"_blank\">the Thinkpot</a>...\r\n<blockquote>The paranoia of London’s underground bombing is revived in Hewson’s  story of Melissa Darma. The tension of entrapment, strangers and  paranoia is interspersed with terrific description. The power of the  thriller short story is highlighted here: exposition is married with  character, dialogue is sparse yet informative.\r\n\r\n“The Circle” feels as though it’s one of those episodes of “Prime  Suspect”, gritty, British and real. That’s hardly surprising as Hewson  stems from Kent, England. Although I’ve only ever been on the London  Tube once, his description of claustrophobia rung a bell for me.</blockquote>','The Circle','','publish','closed','closed','','the-circle','','','2011-03-06 08:58:50','2011-03-06 08:58:50','',7670,'http://davidhewson.com/?page_id=7675',0,'page','',0),(7676,1,'2011-03-06 08:54:09','2011-03-06 08:54:09','','6a00d8341c7d9d53ef011168ca96aa970c-pi','','inherit','open','open','','6a00d8341c7d9d53ef011168ca96aa970c-pi','','','2011-03-06 08:54:09','2011-03-06 08:54:09','',7675,'http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/6a00d8341c7d9d53ef011168ca96aa970c-pi.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(7677,1,'2011-03-06 08:53:16','2011-03-06 08:53:16','A young woman sits on the London Tube. A foreign man next to her behaves very oddly then says, \'They will remember my name.\'\n\n<em>The Circle</em> is a story set in a city beset by fear. Of terrorism. Of the people sitting next to you on the train. 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A foreign man next to her behaves very oddly then says, \'They will remember my name.\'\r\n\r\n<em>The Circle</em> is a story set in a city beset by fear. Of terrorism. Of the people sitting next to you on the train. It first appeared in <em>Thriller 2</em> edited by Clive Cussler. I\'m very flattered to say it\'s in <em>The Mammoth Book of Best of British Crime </em>for 2011 too, edited by Maxim Jakubowski.\r\n\r\nHere\'s a review of it from <a href=\"http://thethinkpot.co.uk/blog/2010/10/17/thriller-2/\" target=\"_blank\">the Thinkpot</a>...\r\n<blockquote>The paranoia of London’s underground bombing is revived in Hewson’s  story of Melissa Darma. The tension of entrapment, strangers and  paranoia is interspersed with terrific description. The power of the  thriller short story is highlighted here: exposition is married with  character, dialogue is sparse yet informative.\r\n\r\n“The Circle” feels as though it’s one of those episodes of “Prime  Suspect”, gritty, British and real. 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Although I’ve only ever been on the London  Tube once, his description of claustrophobia rung a bell for me.</blockquote>','The Circle','','inherit','open','open','','7675-revision-2','','','2011-03-06 08:54:32','2011-03-06 08:54:32','',7675,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7675-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(7679,1,'2011-03-06 08:55:47','2011-03-06 08:55:47','','mammoth+book+of+best+British+crime+8,+Maxim+Jakubowski','','inherit','open','open','','mammothbookofbestbritishcrime8maximjakubowski','','','2011-03-06 08:55:47','2011-03-06 08:55:47','',7675,'http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/mammoth+book+of+best+British+crime+8+Maxim+Jakubowski.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(7680,1,'2011-03-06 08:54:40','2011-03-06 08:54:40','<img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7676\" title=\"6a00d8341c7d9d53ef011168ca96aa970c-pi\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/6a00d8341c7d9d53ef011168ca96aa970c-pi-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" />A young woman sits on the London Tube. A foreign man next to her behaves very oddly then says, \'They will remember my name.\'\r\n\r\n<em>The Circle</em> is a story set in a city beset by fear. Of terrorism. Of the people sitting next to you on the train. It first appeared in <em>Thriller 2</em> edited by Clive Cussler. I\'m very flattered to say it\'s in <em>The Mammoth Book of Best of British Crime </em>for 2011 too, edited by Maxim Jakubowski.\r\n\r\nHere\'s a review of it from <a href=\"http://thethinkpot.co.uk/blog/2010/10/17/thriller-2/\" target=\"_blank\">the Thinkpot</a>...\r\n<blockquote>The paranoia of London’s underground bombing is revived in Hewson’s  story of Melissa Darma. The tension of entrapment, strangers and  paranoia is interspersed with terrific description. The power of the  thriller short story is highlighted here: exposition is married with  character, dialogue is sparse yet informative.\r\n\r\n“The Circle” feels as though it’s one of those episodes of “Prime  Suspect”, gritty, British and real. That’s hardly surprising as Hewson  stems from Kent, England. Although I’ve only ever been on the London  Tube once, his description of claustrophobia rung a bell for me.</blockquote>','The Circle','','inherit','open','open','','7675-revision-3','','','2011-03-06 08:54:40','2011-03-06 08:54:40','',7675,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7675-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(7681,1,'2011-03-06 08:56:52','2011-03-06 08:56:52','<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/6a00d8341c7d9d53ef011168ca96aa970c-pi.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7676\" title=\"6a00d8341c7d9d53ef011168ca96aa970c-pi\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/6a00d8341c7d9d53ef011168ca96aa970c-pi-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"116\" height=\"177\" /></a>A young woman sits on the London Tube. A foreign man next to her behaves very oddly then says, \'They will remember my name.\'\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7679\" title=\"mammoth+book+of+best+British+crime+8,+Maxim+Jakubowski\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/mammoth+book+of+best+British+crime+8+Maxim+Jakubowski-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"104\" height=\"160\" /><em>The Circle</em> is a story set in a city beset by fear. Of terrorism. Of the people sitting next to you on the train. It first appeared in <em>Thriller 2</em> edited by Clive Cussler. I\'m very flattered to say it\'s in <em>The Mammoth Book of Best of British Crime </em>for 2011 too, edited by Maxim Jakubowski.\r\n\r\nHere\'s a review of it from <a href=\"http://thethinkpot.co.uk/blog/2010/10/17/thriller-2/\" target=\"_blank\">the Thinkpot</a>...\r\n<blockquote>The paranoia of London’s underground bombing is revived in Hewson’s  story of Melissa Darma. 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A foreign man next to her behaves very oddly then says, \'They will remember my name.\'\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7679\" title=\"mammoth+book+of+best+British+crime+8,+Maxim+Jakubowski\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/mammoth+book+of+best+British+crime+8+Maxim+Jakubowski-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"104\" height=\"160\" /><em>The Circle</em> is a story set in a city beset by fear. Of terrorism. Of the people sitting next to you on the train. It first appeared in <em>Thriller 2</em> edited by Clive Cussler. I\'m very flattered to say it\'s in <em>The Mammoth Book of Best of British Crime </em>for 2011 too, edited by Maxim Jakubowski.\r\n\r\nHere\'s a review of it from <a href=\"http://thethinkpot.co.uk/blog/2010/10/17/thriller-2/\" target=\"_blank\">the Thinkpot</a>...\r\n<blockquote>The paranoia of London’s underground bombing is revived in Hewson’s  story of Melissa Darma. The tension of entrapment, strangers and  paranoia is interspersed with terrific description. The power of the  thriller short story is highlighted here: exposition is married with  character, dialogue is sparse yet informative.\r\n\r\n“The Circle” feels as though it’s one of those episodes of “Prime  Suspect”, gritty, British and real. That’s hardly surprising as Hewson  stems from Kent, England. Although I’ve only ever been on the London  Tube once, his description of claustrophobia rung a bell for me.</blockquote>','The Circle','','inherit','open','open','','7675-revision-5','','','2011-03-06 08:56:59','2011-03-06 08:56:59','',7675,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7675-revision-5/',0,'revision','',0),(7683,1,'2011-03-06 08:57:33','2011-03-06 08:57:33','<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/6a00d8341c7d9d53ef011168ca96aa970c-pi.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7676\" title=\"6a00d8341c7d9d53ef011168ca96aa970c-pi\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/6a00d8341c7d9d53ef011168ca96aa970c-pi-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"116\" height=\"177\" /></a>A young woman sits on the London Tube. A foreign man next to her behaves very oddly then says, \'They will remember my name.\'\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/mammoth+book+of+best+British+crime+8+Maxim+Jakubowski.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7679\" title=\"mammoth+book+of+best+British+crime+8,+Maxim+Jakubowski\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/mammoth+book+of+best+British+crime+8+Maxim+Jakubowski-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"104\" height=\"160\" /></a><em>The Circle</em> is a story set in a city beset by fear. Of terrorism. Of the people sitting next to you on the train. It first appeared in <em>Thriller 2</em> edited by Clive Cussler. I\'m very flattered to say it\'s in <em>The Mammoth Book of Best of British Crime </em>for 2011 too, edited by Maxim Jakubowski.\r\n\r\nHere\'s a review of it from <a href=\"http://thethinkpot.co.uk/blog/2010/10/17/thriller-2/\" target=\"_blank\">the Thinkpot</a>...\r\n<blockquote>The paranoia of London’s underground bombing is revived in Hewson’s  story of Melissa Darma. The tension of entrapment, strangers and  paranoia is interspersed with terrific description. The power of the  thriller short story is highlighted here: exposition is married with  character, dialogue is sparse yet informative.\r\n\r\n“The Circle” feels as though it’s one of those episodes of “Prime  Suspect”, gritty, British and real. That’s hardly surprising as Hewson  stems from Kent, England. Although I’ve only ever been on the London  Tube once, his description of claustrophobia rung a bell for me.</blockquote>','The Circle','','inherit','open','open','','7675-revision-6','','','2011-03-06 08:57:33','2011-03-06 08:57:33','',7675,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7675-revision-6/',0,'revision','',0),(7684,1,'2011-03-06 09:00:01','2011-03-06 09:00:01','A young woman sits on the London Tube. A foreign man next to her behaves very oddly then says, ‘They will remember my name.’\r\n\r\nThe Circle is a story set in a city beset by fear. Of terrorism. Of the people sitting next to you on the train. It first appeared in Thriller 2 edited by Clive Cussler. I’m very flattered to say it’s in The Mammoth Book of Best of British Crime for 2011 too, edited by Maxim Jakubowski.\r\n\r\nHere’s a review of it from the Thinkpot…\r\nThe paranoia of London’s underground bombing is revived in Hewson’s  story of Melissa Darma. The tension of entrapment, strangers and  paranoia is interspersed with terrific description. The power of the  thriller short story is highlighted here: exposition is married with  character, dialogue is sparse yet informative.\r\n\r\n“The Circle” feels as though it’s one of those episodes of “Prime  Suspect”, gritty, British and real. That’s hardly surprising as Hewson  stems from Kent, England. Although I’ve only ever been on the London  Tube once, his description of claustrophobia rung a bell for me.','','','publish','open','open','','7684','','','2011-04-20 16:18:24','2011-04-20 15:18:24','',7670,'http://davidhewson.com/?p=7684',15,'nav_menu_item','',0),(7685,1,'2011-03-06 08:33:13','2011-03-06 08:33:13','From time to time I\'ll be producing a few short stories. Details below...','Short stories','','inherit','open','open','','7670-revision-2','','','2011-03-06 08:33:13','2011-03-06 08:33:13','',7670,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7670-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(7686,1,'2011-03-06 09:04:34','2011-03-06 09:04:34','From time to time I\'ll be producing a few short stories. Details below...','Short stories','','inherit','open','open','','7670-revision-3','','','2011-03-06 09:04:34','2011-03-06 09:04:34','',7670,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7670-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(7687,1,'2011-03-06 09:06:06','2011-03-06 09:06:06','From time to time I\'ll be producing a few short stories. Details in the menu...','Short stories','','inherit','open','open','','7670-autosave','','','2011-03-06 09:06:06','2011-03-06 09:06:06','',7670,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7670-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(7688,1,'2011-03-06 15:30:16','2011-03-06 15:30:16','&nbsp;\r\n\r\nA lot of us with backlist books are now putting them back into circulation through self-published ebooks. I doubt anyone\'s making much money out of this. But it makes sense to have books in circulation legitimately, at modest prices, in a new electronic format, if you can, not just as recycled secondhand copies alone, which are sometimes hard to come by.\r\n\r\nI\'ve only got round to putting up one back list title so far, <a title=\"Epiphany\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/standalones/epiphany/\"><em>Epiphany</em>,</a> now available for 99p.  I will try to get more online. It is a time-consuming process, though. And all of us involved in this kind of activity do need to issue a kind of caveat to existing readers: these are works we wrote some time ago. Like most people in this position, my writing\'s changed over the years. Early work is rarely indicative of later work. So expect to be surprised by a change in tone and style. And if you really feel you\'ve wasted your 99p or whatever you can always return it to Amazon for a refund.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->What I don\'t have planned at the moment is any move to extend this process beyond Kindle. One reason for this is, <a title=\"From Scrivener to Kindle step-by-step\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/from-scrivener-to-kindle-step-by-step/\">as I hope I showed in yesterday\'s post,</a> it is extremely easy to get things online with Amazon\'s ebook service. Everywhere else is, if you want to charge even a modest sum for your work, much more demanding.\r\n\r\nI\'m thinking in particular of Apple\'s iBooks here. I have iBooks on my iPad. It\'s OK but as a reader I much prefer Kindle. Unlike iBooks it runs on a variety of platforms, from Macs to PCs and Android devices. iBooks is designed for Apple alone. I\'ve no idea how popular it is but as an author publishing medium it poses one significant problem: you have to get yourself an <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number\" target=\"_blank\">ISBN</a> number for your work.\r\n\r\nA what? An International Standard Book Number, a unique code that will identify a single edition of your work in every market where it\'s sold.\r\n\r\nGiven that my backlist may one day extend to five or six works that will probably be something I decide to do. But if you\'re new to publishing, or just want to put up a short story or novella, that ISBN demand is a pain. In the UK the only way to get one is to <a href=\"http://www.isbn.nielsenbook.co.uk/controller.php?page=123\" target=\"_blank\">buy them from Nielsen.</a> Here are the prices...\r\n\r\n<img class=\"size-full wp-image-7690 alignnone\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-03-06 at 10.12.09\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Screen-shot-2011-03-06-at-10.12.09.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"543\" height=\"394\" />\r\n\r\nIf you\'re in the US you need to go to the <a href=\"http://www.isbn.org/standards/home/index.asp\" target=\"_blank\">ISBN Agency.</a> And note: where you are in the world limits your choice. So you can\'t buy a US ISBN from the UK (though that UK ISBN you buy will be good worldwide). Not that you\'d want to probably because in the US a single ISBN will cost you $125 and ten of them $250.\r\n\r\nRemember that word \'edition\' too. If you want to publish a title as both ebook and paperback you need two ISBNs, one for each. These are individual identifiers, not generic ones.\r\n\r\nAmazon doesn\'t demand you have an ISBN to publish on Kindle, though it will list one if you have it. For iBooks you <em>must</em> have that code. It\'s not cheap, especially for a single title in the US. The simplest way round this is to use an \'aggregator\', a company that has a deal with Apple to supply titles to iBooks and will handle the ISBN side of things. The best known is <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Smashwords\" rel=\"homepage\" href=\"http://www.smashwords.com/\">Smashwords</a>. Unfortunately Smashwords only takes books in Word format, and it\'s a pain to format them for the Smashwords publication process. The one time I tried (with <em>Epiphany</em>, which has now been removed) the book got repeatedly rejected on the grounds that it was incorrectly formatted even though I followed the Smashwords guidelines to the letter. The company eventually conceded their own guidelines were wrong.\r\n\r\nThat was a while back and one assumes things are better now. But you still have to deal with Word, not the simple epub export process you can get from Scrivener or Apple Pages. Why? When iBooks actually uses an epub file -- and if you publish direct through the service, with your own ISBN number, an epub file is what you will upload?\r\n\r\nI don\'t know. But then I don\'t know why iBooks is insisting on ISBN numbers for its own direct publications either, unless it\'s to frighten off the vast army of self publishers who want to get their work up there for free. ISBN numbers are incredibly useful for physical books. They provide the basis for inventory systems and, in the case of public lending right schemes, are the codes authors use to register their work.\r\n\r\nBut ebooks are digital. People search for them by author name and book title, not a numeric code. As far as I can see, they serve little purpose for an epublishing system, though perhaps I\'ve just missed something that Apple have spotted and Amazon have missed.\r\n\r\nEither way it makes iBooks an unattractive proposition for new authors looking to publish their work, unless they are willing to buy their own ISBN numbers of put up with the added work of dealing with aggregators. The whole point of digital is that it should be quick, easy and efficient. From the point of view of authors, Apple\'s service doesn\'t look that way right now.\r\n\r\nAnd you know what? Even the ISBN people don\'t hide the fact that they\'re primarily there to service a print-based marketplace. Take a look at this from their \'must-fill\' form for new ISBN numbers (which you have to print out and return, by scan or mail, since there\'s no web form).\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Screen-shot-2011-03-06-at-10.33.03.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7701\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-03-06 at 10.33.03\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Screen-shot-2011-03-06-at-10.33.03-640x273.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"270\" /></a>\r\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><img class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=933a6d35-f9e4-4ffe-b7ac-5ed3c3a39e1f\" alt=\"\" /></div>\r\nThe first person who can tell me correctly where the Verso is on an ebook wins a lollipop.','The problem with iBooks','','publish','open','open','','the-problem-with-ibooks','','','2011-03-06 11:25:52','2011-03-06 11:25:52','',0,'http://davidhewson.com/?p=7688',0,'post','',9),(7689,1,'2011-03-06 10:10:19','2011-03-06 10:10:19','A lot of us with backlist books are now putting them back into circulation through self-published ebooks. I doubt anyone\'s making a fortune out of this. But it seems to make more sense to have books in circulation legitimately, at low e-prices, than to leave sales to second hand markets and the pirates.\n\nI\'ve only got round to putting up one back list title so far, <a title=\"Epiphany\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/standalones/epiphany/\"><em>Epiphany</em>,</a> now available for 99p. When time becomes available I will try to get more online. It is a time-consuming process, though. And all of us involved in this kind of activity do need to issue a kind of caveat to existing readers: these are works we wrote some time ago. Like most people in this position, my writing\'s changed over the years. Early work is rarely indicative of later work. So expect to be surprised by a change in tone and style. And if you really feel you\'ve wasted your 99p or whatever you can always return it to Amazon for a refund.\n\n<!--more-->What I don\'t have planned at the moment is any move to extend this process beyond Kindle. One reason for this is, <a title=\"From Scrivener to Kindle step-by-step\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/from-scrivener-to-kindle-step-by-step/\">as I hope I showed in yesterday\'s post,</a> it is extremely easy to get things online with Amazon\'s ebook service. Everywhere else is, if you want to charge even a modest sum for your work, much more demanding.\n\nI\'m thinking in particular of Apple\'s iBooks here. I have iBooks on my iPad. It\'s OK but as a reader I much prefer Kindle. Unlike iBooks it runs on a variety of platforms, from Macs to PCs and Android devices. iBooks is designed for Apple alone. I\'ve no idea how popular it is but as an author publishing medium it poses one significant problem: you have to get yourself an ISBN number for your work.\n\nGiven that my backlist may one day extend to five or six works','The problem with authors and iBooks','','inherit','open','open','','7688-revision','','','2011-03-06 10:10:19','2011-03-06 10:10:19','',7688,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7688-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(7690,1,'2011-03-06 10:12:47','2011-03-06 10:12:47','','Screen shot 2011-03-06 at 10.12.09','','inherit','open','open','','screen-shot-2011-03-06-at-10-12-09','','','2011-03-06 10:12:47','2011-03-06 10:12:47','',7688,'http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Screen-shot-2011-03-06-at-10.12.09.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(7691,1,'2011-03-06 10:15:17','2011-03-06 10:15:17','A lot of us with backlist books are now putting them back into circulation through self-published ebooks. I doubt anyone\'s making a fortune out of this. But it seems to make more sense to have books in circulation legitimately, at low e-prices, than to leave sales to second hand markets and the pirates.\n\nI\'ve only got round to putting up one back list title so far, <a title=\"Epiphany\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/standalones/epiphany/\"><em>Epiphany</em>,</a> now available for 99p. When time becomes available I will try to get more online. It is a time-consuming process, though. And all of us involved in this kind of activity do need to issue a kind of caveat to existing readers: these are works we wrote some time ago. Like most people in this position, my writing\'s changed over the years. Early work is rarely indicative of later work. So expect to be surprised by a change in tone and style. And if you really feel you\'ve wasted your 99p or whatever you can always return it to Amazon for a refund.\n\n<!--more-->What I don\'t have planned at the moment is any move to extend this process beyond Kindle. One reason for this is, <a title=\"From Scrivener to Kindle step-by-step\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/from-scrivener-to-kindle-step-by-step/\">as I hope I showed in yesterday\'s post,</a> it is extremely easy to get things online with Amazon\'s ebook service. Everywhere else is, if you want to charge even a modest sum for your work, much more demanding.\n\nI\'m thinking in particular of Apple\'s iBooks here. I have iBooks on my iPad. It\'s OK but as a reader I much prefer Kindle. Unlike iBooks it runs on a variety of platforms, from Macs to PCs and Android devices. iBooks is designed for Apple alone. I\'ve no idea how popular it is but as an author publishing medium it poses one significant problem: you have to get yourself an <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number\" target=\"_blank\">ISBN</a> number for your work.\n\nGiven that my backlist may one day extend to five or six works that will probably be something I decide to do. But if you\'re new to publishing, or just want to put up a short story or novella, that ISBN demand is a pain. In the UK the only way to get one is to <a href=\"http://www.isbn.nielsenbook.co.uk/controller.php?page=123\" target=\"_blank\">buy them from Nielsen.</a> Here are the prices...\n\n<img class=\"size-full wp-image-7690 alignnone\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-03-06 at 10.12.09\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Screen-shot-2011-03-06-at-10.12.09.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"543\" height=\"394\" />\n\nIf you\'re in the US you need to go to the ISBN Agency. And note: where you are in the world limits your choice. So you can\'t buy a US ISBN from the UK (tjhou','The problem with authors and iBooks','','inherit','open','open','','7688-revision-2','','','2011-03-06 10:15:17','2011-03-06 10:15:17','',7688,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7688-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(7692,1,'2011-03-06 10:23:51','2011-03-06 10:23:51','A lot of us with backlist books are now putting them back into circulation through self-published ebooks. I doubt anyone\'s making a fortune out of this. But it seems to make more sense to have books in circulation legitimately, at low e-prices, than to leave sales to second hand markets and the pirates.\n\nI\'ve only got round to putting up one back list title so far, <a title=\"Epiphany\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/standalones/epiphany/\"><em>Epiphany</em>,</a> now available for 99p. When time becomes available I will try to get more online. It is a time-consuming process, though. And all of us involved in this kind of activity do need to issue a kind of caveat to existing readers: these are works we wrote some time ago. Like most people in this position, my writing\'s changed over the years. Early work is rarely indicative of later work. So expect to be surprised by a change in tone and style. And if you really feel you\'ve wasted your 99p or whatever you can always return it to Amazon for a refund.\n\n<!--more-->What I don\'t have planned at the moment is any move to extend this process beyond Kindle. One reason for this is, <a title=\"From Scrivener to Kindle step-by-step\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/from-scrivener-to-kindle-step-by-step/\">as I hope I showed in yesterday\'s post,</a> it is extremely easy to get things online with Amazon\'s ebook service. Everywhere else is, if you want to charge even a modest sum for your work, much more demanding.\n\nI\'m thinking in particular of Apple\'s iBooks here. I have iBooks on my iPad. It\'s OK but as a reader I much prefer Kindle. Unlike iBooks it runs on a variety of platforms, from Macs to PCs and Android devices. iBooks is designed for Apple alone. I\'ve no idea how popular it is but as an author publishing medium it poses one significant problem: you have to get yourself an <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number\" target=\"_blank\">ISBN</a> number for your work.\n\nA what? An International Standard Book Number, a unique code that will identify a single edition of your work in every market where it\'s sold.\n\nGiven that my backlist may one day extend to five or six works that will probably be something I decide to do. But if you\'re new to publishing, or just want to put up a short story or novella, that ISBN demand is a pain. In the UK the only way to get one is to <a href=\"http://www.isbn.nielsenbook.co.uk/controller.php?page=123\" target=\"_blank\">buy them from Nielsen.</a> Here are the prices...\n\n<img class=\"size-full wp-image-7690 alignnone\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-03-06 at 10.12.09\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Screen-shot-2011-03-06-at-10.12.09.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"543\" height=\"394\" />\n\nIf you\'re in the US you need to go to the <a href=\"http://www.isbn.org/standards/home/index.asp\" target=\"_blank\">ISBN Agency.</a> And note: where you are in the world limits your choice. So you can\'t buy a US ISBN from the UK (though that UK ISBN you buy will be good worldwide). Not that you\'d want to probably because in the US a single ISBN will cost you $125 and ten of them $250.\n\nAmazon doesn\'t demand you have an ISBN to publish on Kindle, though it will list one if you have it. For iBooks you <em>must</em> have that code. It\'s not cheap, especially for a single title in the US. The simplest way round this is to use an \'aggregator\', a company that has a deal with Apple to supply titles to iBooks and will handle the ISBN side of things. The best known is Smashwords. Unfortunately Smashwords only takes books in Word format, and it\'s a pain to format them for the Smashwords publication process. The one time I tried (with <em>Epiphany</em>, which has now been removed) the book got repeatedly rejected on the grounds that it was incorrectly formatted even though I followed the Smashwords guidelines to the letter. The company eventually conceded their own guidelines were wrong.\n\nThat was a while back and one assumes things are better now. But you still have to deal with word, not the simple epub export process you can get from Scrivener or Apple Pages. Why? When iBooks actually uses an epub file -- and if you publish direct through the service, with your own ISBN number, an epub file is what you will upload?\n\nI don\'t know. But then I don\'t know why iBooks is insisting on ISBN numbers for its own direct publications either, unless it\'s to frighten off the vast army of self publishers who want to get their work up there for free. ISBN numbers are incredibly useful for physical books. They provide the basis for inventory systems and, in the case of public lending right schemes, are the o','The problem with authors and iBooks','','inherit','open','open','','7688-revision-3','','','2011-03-06 10:23:51','2011-03-06 10:23:51','',7688,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7688-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(7693,1,'2011-03-06 10:26:29','2011-03-06 10:26:29','A lot of us with backlist books are now putting them back into circulation through self-published ebooks. I doubt anyone\'s making a fortune out of this. But it seems to make more sense to have books in circulation legitimately, at low e-prices, than to leave sales to second hand markets and the pirates.\n\nI\'ve only got round to putting up one back list title so far, <a title=\"Epiphany\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/standalones/epiphany/\"><em>Epiphany</em>,</a> now available for 99p. When time becomes available I will try to get more online. It is a time-consuming process, though. And all of us involved in this kind of activity do need to issue a kind of caveat to existing readers: these are works we wrote some time ago. Like most people in this position, my writing\'s changed over the years. Early work is rarely indicative of later work. So expect to be surprised by a change in tone and style. And if you really feel you\'ve wasted your 99p or whatever you can always return it to Amazon for a refund.\n\n<!--more-->What I don\'t have planned at the moment is any move to extend this process beyond Kindle. One reason for this is, <a title=\"From Scrivener to Kindle step-by-step\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/from-scrivener-to-kindle-step-by-step/\">as I hope I showed in yesterday\'s post,</a> it is extremely easy to get things online with Amazon\'s ebook service. Everywhere else is, if you want to charge even a modest sum for your work, much more demanding.\n\nI\'m thinking in particular of Apple\'s iBooks here. I have iBooks on my iPad. It\'s OK but as a reader I much prefer Kindle. Unlike iBooks it runs on a variety of platforms, from Macs to PCs and Android devices. iBooks is designed for Apple alone. I\'ve no idea how popular it is but as an author publishing medium it poses one significant problem: you have to get yourself an <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number\" target=\"_blank\">ISBN</a> number for your work.\n\nA what? An International Standard Book Number, a unique code that will identify a single edition of your work in every market where it\'s sold.\n\nGiven that my backlist may one day extend to five or six works that will probably be something I decide to do. But if you\'re new to publishing, or just want to put up a short story or novella, that ISBN demand is a pain. In the UK the only way to get one is to <a href=\"http://www.isbn.nielsenbook.co.uk/controller.php?page=123\" target=\"_blank\">buy them from Nielsen.</a> Here are the prices...\n\n<img class=\"size-full wp-image-7690 alignnone\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-03-06 at 10.12.09\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Screen-shot-2011-03-06-at-10.12.09.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"543\" height=\"394\" />\n\nIf you\'re in the US you need to go to the <a href=\"http://www.isbn.org/standards/home/index.asp\" target=\"_blank\">ISBN Agency.</a> And note: where you are in the world limits your choice. So you can\'t buy a US ISBN from the UK (though that UK ISBN you buy will be good worldwide). Not that you\'d want to probably because in the US a single ISBN will cost you $125 and ten of them $250.\n\nAmazon doesn\'t demand you have an ISBN to publish on Kindle, though it will list one if you have it. For iBooks you <em>must</em> have that code. It\'s not cheap, especially for a single title in the US. The simplest way round this is to use an \'aggregator\', a company that has a deal with Apple to supply titles to iBooks and will handle the ISBN side of things. The best known is Smashwords. Unfortunately Smashwords only takes books in Word format, and it\'s a pain to format them for the Smashwords publication process. The one time I tried (with <em>Epiphany</em>, which has now been removed) the book got repeatedly rejected on the grounds that it was incorrectly formatted even though I followed the Smashwords guidelines to the letter. The company eventually conceded their own guidelines were wrong.\n\nThat was a while back and one assumes things are better now. But you still have to deal with word, not the simple epub export process you can get from Scrivener or Apple Pages. Why? When iBooks actually uses an epub file -- and if you publish direct through the service, with your own ISBN number, an epub file is what you will upload?\n\nI don\'t know. But then I don\'t know why iBooks is insisting on ISBN numbers for its own direct publications either, unless it\'s to frighten off the vast army of self publishers who want to get their work up there for free. ISBN numbers are incredibly useful for physical books. They provide the basis for inventory systems and, in the case of public lending right schemes, are the codes authors use to register their work.\n\nBut ebooks are digital. People search for them by author name and book title, not a numeric code. As far as I can see, they serve little purpose for an epublishing system, though perhaps I\'ve just missed something that Apple have spotted and Amazon have missed.\n\nEither way it makes iBooks an unattractive proposition for new authors looking to publish their work, unless they are willing to buy their own ISBN numbers of put up with the added work of dealing with aggregators. The whole point of digital is that it should be quick, easy and efficient.','The problem with authors and iBooks','','inherit','open','open','','7688-revision-4','','','2011-03-06 10:26:29','2011-03-06 10:26:29','',7688,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7688-revision-4/',0,'revision','',0),(7694,1,'2011-03-06 10:26:51','2011-03-06 10:26:51','A lot of us with backlist books are now putting them back into circulation through self-published ebooks. I doubt anyone\'s making a fortune out of this. But it seems to make more sense to have books in circulation legitimately, at low e-prices, than to leave sales to second hand markets and the pirates.\r\n\r\nI\'ve only got round to putting up one back list title so far, <a title=\"Epiphany\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/standalones/epiphany/\"><em>Epiphany</em>,</a> now available for 99p. When time becomes available I will try to get more online. It is a time-consuming process, though. And all of us involved in this kind of activity do need to issue a kind of caveat to existing readers: these are works we wrote some time ago. Like most people in this position, my writing\'s changed over the years. Early work is rarely indicative of later work. So expect to be surprised by a change in tone and style. And if you really feel you\'ve wasted your 99p or whatever you can always return it to Amazon for a refund.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->What I don\'t have planned at the moment is any move to extend this process beyond Kindle. One reason for this is, <a title=\"From Scrivener to Kindle step-by-step\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/from-scrivener-to-kindle-step-by-step/\">as I hope I showed in yesterday\'s post,</a> it is extremely easy to get things online with Amazon\'s ebook service. Everywhere else is, if you want to charge even a modest sum for your work, much more demanding.\r\n\r\nI\'m thinking in particular of Apple\'s iBooks here. I have iBooks on my iPad. It\'s OK but as a reader I much prefer Kindle. Unlike iBooks it runs on a variety of platforms, from Macs to PCs and Android devices. iBooks is designed for Apple alone. I\'ve no idea how popular it is but as an author publishing medium it poses one significant problem: you have to get yourself an <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number\" target=\"_blank\">ISBN</a> number for your work.\r\n\r\nA what? An International Standard Book Number, a unique code that will identify a single edition of your work in every market where it\'s sold.\r\n\r\nGiven that my backlist may one day extend to five or six works that will probably be something I decide to do. But if you\'re new to publishing, or just want to put up a short story or novella, that ISBN demand is a pain. In the UK the only way to get one is to <a href=\"http://www.isbn.nielsenbook.co.uk/controller.php?page=123\" target=\"_blank\">buy them from Nielsen.</a> Here are the prices...\r\n\r\n<img class=\"size-full wp-image-7690 alignnone\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-03-06 at 10.12.09\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Screen-shot-2011-03-06-at-10.12.09.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"543\" height=\"394\" />\r\n\r\nIf you\'re in the US you need to go to the <a href=\"http://www.isbn.org/standards/home/index.asp\" target=\"_blank\">ISBN Agency.</a> And note: where you are in the world limits your choice. So you can\'t buy a US ISBN from the UK (though that UK ISBN you buy will be good worldwide). Not that you\'d want to probably because in the US a single ISBN will cost you $125 and ten of them $250.\r\n\r\nAmazon doesn\'t demand you have an ISBN to publish on Kindle, though it will list one if you have it. For iBooks you <em>must</em> have that code. It\'s not cheap, especially for a single title in the US. The simplest way round this is to use an \'aggregator\', a company that has a deal with Apple to supply titles to iBooks and will handle the ISBN side of things. The best known is Smashwords. Unfortunately Smashwords only takes books in Word format, and it\'s a pain to format them for the Smashwords publication process. The one time I tried (with <em>Epiphany</em>, which has now been removed) the book got repeatedly rejected on the grounds that it was incorrectly formatted even though I followed the Smashwords guidelines to the letter. The company eventually conceded their own guidelines were wrong.\r\n\r\nThat was a while back and one assumes things are better now. But you still have to deal with word, not the simple epub export process you can get from Scrivener or Apple Pages. Why? When iBooks actually uses an epub file -- and if you publish direct through the service, with your own ISBN number, an epub file is what you will upload?\r\n\r\nI don\'t know. But then I don\'t know why iBooks is insisting on ISBN numbers for its own direct publications either, unless it\'s to frighten off the vast army of self publishers who want to get their work up there for free. ISBN numbers are incredibly useful for physical books. They provide the basis for inventory systems and, in the case of public lending right schemes, are the codes authors use to register their work.\r\n\r\nBut ebooks are digital. People search for them by author name and book title, not a numeric code. As far as I can see, they serve little purpose for an epublishing system, though perhaps I\'ve just missed something that Apple have spotted and Amazon have missed.\r\n\r\nEither way it makes iBooks an unattractive proposition for new authors looking to publish their work, unless they are willing to buy their own ISBN numbers of put up with the added work of dealing with aggregators. The whole point of digital is that it should be quick, easy and efficient. From the point of view of authors, Apple\'s service doesn\'t look that way right now.','The problem with authors and iBooks','','inherit','open','open','','7688-revision-5','','','2011-03-06 10:26:51','2011-03-06 10:26:51','',7688,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7688-revision-5/',0,'revision','',0),(7695,1,'2011-03-06 10:27:08','2011-03-06 10:27:08','A lot of us with backlist books are now putting them back into circulation through self-published ebooks. I doubt anyone\'s making a fortune out of this. But it seems to make more sense to have books in circulation legitimately, at low e-prices, than to leave sales to second hand markets and the pirates.\r\n\r\nI\'ve only got round to putting up one back list title so far, <a title=\"Epiphany\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/standalones/epiphany/\"><em>Epiphany</em>,</a> now available for 99p. When time becomes available I will try to get more online. It is a time-consuming process, though. And all of us involved in this kind of activity do need to issue a kind of caveat to existing readers: these are works we wrote some time ago. Like most people in this position, my writing\'s changed over the years. Early work is rarely indicative of later work. So expect to be surprised by a change in tone and style. And if you really feel you\'ve wasted your 99p or whatever you can always return it to Amazon for a refund.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->What I don\'t have planned at the moment is any move to extend this process beyond Kindle. One reason for this is, <a title=\"From Scrivener to Kindle step-by-step\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/from-scrivener-to-kindle-step-by-step/\">as I hope I showed in yesterday\'s post,</a> it is extremely easy to get things online with Amazon\'s ebook service. Everywhere else is, if you want to charge even a modest sum for your work, much more demanding.\r\n\r\nI\'m thinking in particular of Apple\'s iBooks here. I have iBooks on my iPad. It\'s OK but as a reader I much prefer Kindle. Unlike iBooks it runs on a variety of platforms, from Macs to PCs and Android devices. iBooks is designed for Apple alone. I\'ve no idea how popular it is but as an author publishing medium it poses one significant problem: you have to get yourself an <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number\" target=\"_blank\">ISBN</a> number for your work.\r\n\r\nA what? An International Standard Book Number, a unique code that will identify a single edition of your work in every market where it\'s sold.\r\n\r\nGiven that my backlist may one day extend to five or six works that will probably be something I decide to do. But if you\'re new to publishing, or just want to put up a short story or novella, that ISBN demand is a pain. In the UK the only way to get one is to <a href=\"http://www.isbn.nielsenbook.co.uk/controller.php?page=123\" target=\"_blank\">buy them from Nielsen.</a> Here are the prices...\r\n\r\n<img class=\"size-full wp-image-7690 alignnone\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-03-06 at 10.12.09\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Screen-shot-2011-03-06-at-10.12.09.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"543\" height=\"394\" />\r\n\r\nIf you\'re in the US you need to go to the <a href=\"http://www.isbn.org/standards/home/index.asp\" target=\"_blank\">ISBN Agency.</a> And note: where you are in the world limits your choice. So you can\'t buy a US ISBN from the UK (though that UK ISBN you buy will be good worldwide). Not that you\'d want to probably because in the US a single ISBN will cost you $125 and ten of them $250.\r\n\r\nAmazon doesn\'t demand you have an ISBN to publish on Kindle, though it will list one if you have it. For iBooks you <em>must</em> have that code. It\'s not cheap, especially for a single title in the US. The simplest way round this is to use an \'aggregator\', a company that has a deal with Apple to supply titles to iBooks and will handle the ISBN side of things. The best known is Smashwords. Unfortunately Smashwords only takes books in Word format, and it\'s a pain to format them for the Smashwords publication process. The one time I tried (with <em>Epiphany</em>, which has now been removed) the book got repeatedly rejected on the grounds that it was incorrectly formatted even though I followed the Smashwords guidelines to the letter. The company eventually conceded their own guidelines were wrong.\r\n\r\nThat was a while back and one assumes things are better now. But you still have to deal with word, not the simple epub export process you can get from Scrivener or Apple Pages. Why? When iBooks actually uses an epub file -- and if you publish direct through the service, with your own ISBN number, an epub file is what you will upload?\r\n\r\nI don\'t know. But then I don\'t know why iBooks is insisting on ISBN numbers for its own direct publications either, unless it\'s to frighten off the vast army of self publishers who want to get their work up there for free. ISBN numbers are incredibly useful for physical books. They provide the basis for inventory systems and, in the case of public lending right schemes, are the codes authors use to register their work.\r\n\r\nBut ebooks are digital. People search for them by author name and book title, not a numeric code. As far as I can see, they serve little purpose for an epublishing system, though perhaps I\'ve just missed something that Apple have spotted and Amazon have missed.\r\n\r\nEither way it makes iBooks an unattractive proposition for new authors looking to publish their work, unless they are willing to buy their own ISBN numbers of put up with the added work of dealing with aggregators. The whole point of digital is that it should be quick, easy and efficient. From the point of view of authors, Apple\'s service doesn\'t look that way right now.','The problem with iBooks','','inherit','open','open','','7688-revision-6','','','2011-03-06 10:27:08','2011-03-06 10:27:08','',7688,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7688-revision-6/',0,'revision','',0),(7697,1,'2011-03-06 10:27:49','2011-03-06 10:27:49','A lot of us with backlist books are now putting them back into circulation through self-published ebooks. I doubt anyone\'s making a fortune out of this. But it seems to make more sense to have books in circulation legitimately, at low e-prices, than to leave sales to second hand markets and the pirates.\r\n\r\nI\'ve only got round to putting up one back list title so far, <a title=\"Epiphany\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/standalones/epiphany/\"><em>Epiphany</em>,</a> now available for 99p.  I will try to get more online. It is a time-consuming process, though. And all of us involved in this kind of activity do need to issue a kind of caveat to existing readers: these are works we wrote some time ago. Like most people in this position, my writing\'s changed over the years. Early work is rarely indicative of later work. So expect to be surprised by a change in tone and style. And if you really feel you\'ve wasted your 99p or whatever you can always return it to Amazon for a refund.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->What I don\'t have planned at the moment is any move to extend this process beyond Kindle. One reason for this is, <a title=\"From Scrivener to Kindle step-by-step\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/from-scrivener-to-kindle-step-by-step/\">as I hope I showed in yesterday\'s post,</a> it is extremely easy to get things online with Amazon\'s ebook service. Everywhere else is, if you want to charge even a modest sum for your work, much more demanding.\r\n\r\nI\'m thinking in particular of Apple\'s iBooks here. I have iBooks on my iPad. It\'s OK but as a reader I much prefer Kindle. Unlike iBooks it runs on a variety of platforms, from Macs to PCs and Android devices. iBooks is designed for Apple alone. I\'ve no idea how popular it is but as an author publishing medium it poses one significant problem: you have to get yourself an <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number\" target=\"_blank\">ISBN</a> number for your work.\r\n\r\nA what? An International Standard Book Number, a unique code that will identify a single edition of your work in every market where it\'s sold.\r\n\r\nGiven that my backlist may one day extend to five or six works that will probably be something I decide to do. But if you\'re new to publishing, or just want to put up a short story or novella, that ISBN demand is a pain. In the UK the only way to get one is to <a href=\"http://www.isbn.nielsenbook.co.uk/controller.php?page=123\" target=\"_blank\">buy them from Nielsen.</a> Here are the prices...\r\n\r\n<img class=\"size-full wp-image-7690 alignnone\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-03-06 at 10.12.09\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Screen-shot-2011-03-06-at-10.12.09.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"543\" height=\"394\" />\r\n\r\nIf you\'re in the US you need to go to the <a href=\"http://www.isbn.org/standards/home/index.asp\" target=\"_blank\">ISBN Agency.</a> And note: where you are in the world limits your choice. So you can\'t buy a US ISBN from the UK (though that UK ISBN you buy will be good worldwide). Not that you\'d want to probably because in the US a single ISBN will cost you $125 and ten of them $250.\r\n\r\nAmazon doesn\'t demand you have an ISBN to publish on Kindle, though it will list one if you have it. For iBooks you <em>must</em> have that code. It\'s not cheap, especially for a single title in the US. The simplest way round this is to use an \'aggregator\', a company that has a deal with Apple to supply titles to iBooks and will handle the ISBN side of things. The best known is Smashwords. Unfortunately Smashwords only takes books in Word format, and it\'s a pain to format them for the Smashwords publication process. The one time I tried (with <em>Epiphany</em>, which has now been removed) the book got repeatedly rejected on the grounds that it was incorrectly formatted even though I followed the Smashwords guidelines to the letter. The company eventually conceded their own guidelines were wrong.\r\n\r\nThat was a while back and one assumes things are better now. But you still have to deal with word, not the simple epub export process you can get from Scrivener or Apple Pages. Why? When iBooks actually uses an epub file -- and if you publish direct through the service, with your own ISBN number, an epub file is what you will upload?\r\n\r\nI don\'t know. But then I don\'t know why iBooks is insisting on ISBN numbers for its own direct publications either, unless it\'s to frighten off the vast army of self publishers who want to get their work up there for free. ISBN numbers are incredibly useful for physical books. They provide the basis for inventory systems and, in the case of public lending right schemes, are the codes authors use to register their work.\r\n\r\nBut ebooks are digital. People search for them by author name and book title, not a numeric code. As far as I can see, they serve little purpose for an epublishing system, though perhaps I\'ve just missed something that Apple have spotted and Amazon have missed.\r\n\r\nEither way it makes iBooks an unattractive proposition for new authors looking to publish their work, unless they are willing to buy their own ISBN numbers of put up with the added work of dealing with aggregators. The whole point of digital is that it should be quick, easy and efficient. From the point of view of authors, Apple\'s service doesn\'t look that way right now.','The problem with iBooks','','inherit','open','open','','7688-revision-8','','','2011-03-06 10:27:49','2011-03-06 10:27:49','',7688,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7688-revision-8/',0,'revision','',0),(7696,1,'2011-03-06 10:27:15','2011-03-06 10:27:15','<p>A lot of us with backlist books are now putting them back into circulation through self-published ebooks. I doubt anyone\'s making a fortune out of this. But it seems to make more sense to have books in circulation legitimately, at low e-prices, than to leave sales to second hand markets and the pirates.</p>\r\n<p>I\'ve only got round to putting up one back list title so far, <a title=\"Epiphany\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/standalones/epiphany/\"><em>Epiphany</em>,</a> now available for 99p. When time becomes available I will try to get more online. It is a time-consuming process, though. And all of us involved in this kind of activity do need to issue a kind of caveat to existing readers: these are works we wrote some time ago. Like most people in this position, my writing\'s changed over the years. Early work is rarely indicative of later work. So expect to be surprised by a change in tone and style. And if you really feel you\'ve wasted your 99p or whatever you can always return it to Amazon for a refund.</p>\r\n<p><!--more-->What I don\'t have planned at the moment is any move to extend this process beyond Kindle. One reason for this is, <a title=\"From Scrivener to Kindle step-by-step\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/from-scrivener-to-kindle-step-by-step/\">as I hope I showed in yesterday\'s post,</a> it is extremely easy to get things online with Amazon\'s ebook service. Everywhere else is, if you want to charge even a modest sum for your work, much more demanding.</p>\r\n<p>I\'m thinking in particular of Apple\'s iBooks here. I have iBooks on my iPad. It\'s OK but as a reader I much prefer Kindle. Unlike iBooks it runs on a variety of platforms, from Macs to PCs and Android devices. iBooks is designed for Apple alone. I\'ve no idea how popular it is but as an author publishing medium it poses one significant problem: you have to get yourself an <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number\" target=\"_blank\">ISBN</a> number for your work.</p>\r\n<p>A what? An International Standard Book Number, a unique code that will identify a single edition of your work in every market where it\'s sold.</p>\r\n<p>Given that my backlist may one day extend to five or six works that will probably be something I decide to do. But if you\'re new to publishing, or just want to put up a short story or novella, that ISBN demand is a pain. In the UK the only way to get one is to <a href=\"http://www.isbn.nielsenbook.co.uk/controller.php?page=123\" target=\"_blank\">buy them from Nielsen.</a> Here are the prices...</p>\r\n<p><img class=\"size-full wp-image-7690 alignnone\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-03-06 at 10.12.09\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Screen-shot-2011-03-06-at-10.12.09.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"543\" height=\"394\" /></p>\r\n<p>If you\'re in the US you need to go to the <a href=\"http://www.isbn.org/standards/home/index.asp\" target=\"_blank\">ISBN Agency.</a> And note: where you are in the world limits your choice. So you can\'t buy a US ISBN from the UK (though that UK ISBN you buy will be good worldwide). Not that you\'d want to probably because in the US a single ISBN will cost you $125 and ten of them $250.</p>\r\n<p>Amazon doesn\'t demand you have an ISBN to publish on Kindle, though it will list one if you have it. For iBooks you <em>must</em> have that code. It\'s not cheap, especially for a single title in the US. The simplest way round this is to use an \'aggregator\', a company that has a deal with Apple to supply titles to iBooks and will handle the ISBN side of things. The best known is Smashwords. Unfortunately Smashwords only takes books in Word format, and it\'s a pain to format them for the Smashwords publication process. The one time I tried (with <em>Epiphany</em>, which has now been removed) the book got repeatedly rejected on the grounds that it was incorrectly formatted even though I followed the Smashwords guidelines to the letter. The company eventually conceded their own guidelines were wrong.</p>\r\n<p>That was a while back and one assumes things are better now. But you still have to deal with word, not the simple epub export process you can get from Scrivener or Apple Pages. Why? When iBooks actually uses an epub file -- and if you publish direct through the service, with your own ISBN number, an epub file is what you will upload?</p>\r\n<p>I don\'t know. But then I don\'t know why iBooks is insisting on ISBN numbers for its own direct publications either, unless it\'s to frighten off the vast army of self publishers who want to get their work up there for free. ISBN numbers are incredibly useful for physical books. They provide the basis for inventory systems and, in the case of public lending right schemes, are the codes authors use to register their work.</p>\r\n<p>But ebooks are digital. People search for them by author name and book title, not a numeric code. As far as I can see, they serve little purpose for an epublishing system, though perhaps I\'ve just missed something that Apple have spotted and Amazon have missed.</p>\r\n<p>Either way it makes iBooks an unattractive proposition for new authors looking to publish their work, unless they are willing to buy their own ISBN numbers of put up with the added work of dealing with aggregators. The whole point of digital is that it should be quick, easy and efficient. From the point of view of authors, Apple\'s service doesn\'t look that way right now.</p>\r\n','The problem with iBooks','','inherit','open','open','','7688-revision-7','','','2011-03-06 10:27:15','2011-03-06 10:27:15','',7688,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7688-revision-7/',0,'revision','',0),(7698,1,'2011-03-06 10:29:57','2011-03-06 10:29:57','A lot of us with backlist books are now putting them back into circulation through self-published ebooks. I doubt anyone\'s making a fortune out of this. But it seems to make more sense to have books in circulation legitimately, at low e-prices, than to leave sales to second hand markets and the pirates.\n\nI\'ve only got round to putting up one back list title so far, <a title=\"Epiphany\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/standalones/epiphany/\"><em>Epiphany</em>,</a> now available for 99p.  I will try to get more online. It is a time-consuming process, though. And all of us involved in this kind of activity do need to issue a kind of caveat to existing readers: these are works we wrote some time ago. Like most people in this position, my writing\'s changed over the years. Early work is rarely indicative of later work. So expect to be surprised by a change in tone and style. And if you really feel you\'ve wasted your 99p or whatever you can always return it to Amazon for a refund.\n\n<!--more-->What I don\'t have planned at the moment is any move to extend this process beyond Kindle. One reason for this is, <a title=\"From Scrivener to Kindle step-by-step\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/from-scrivener-to-kindle-step-by-step/\">as I hope I showed in yesterday\'s post,</a> it is extremely easy to get things online with Amazon\'s ebook service. Everywhere else is, if you want to charge even a modest sum for your work, much more demanding.\n\nI\'m thinking in particular of Apple\'s iBooks here. I have iBooks on my iPad. It\'s OK but as a reader I much prefer Kindle. Unlike iBooks it runs on a variety of platforms, from Macs to PCs and Android devices. iBooks is designed for Apple alone. I\'ve no idea how popular it is but as an author publishing medium it poses one significant problem: you have to get yourself an <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number\" target=\"_blank\">ISBN</a> number for your work.\n\nA what? An International Standard Book Number, a unique code that will identify a single edition of your work in every market where it\'s sold.\n\nGiven that my backlist may one day extend to five or six works that will probably be something I decide to do. But if you\'re new to publishing, or just want to put up a short story or novella, that ISBN demand is a pain. In the UK the only way to get one is to <a href=\"http://www.isbn.nielsenbook.co.uk/controller.php?page=123\" target=\"_blank\">buy them from Nielsen.</a> Here are the prices...\n\n<img class=\"size-full wp-image-7690 alignnone\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-03-06 at 10.12.09\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Screen-shot-2011-03-06-at-10.12.09.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"543\" height=\"394\" />\n\nIf you\'re in the US you need to go to the <a href=\"http://www.isbn.org/standards/home/index.asp\" target=\"_blank\">ISBN Agency.</a> And note: where you are in the world limits your choice. So you can\'t buy a US ISBN from the UK (though that UK ISBN you buy will be good worldwide). Not that you\'d want to probably because in the US a single ISBN will cost you $125 and ten of them $250.\n\nAmazon doesn\'t demand you have an ISBN to publish on Kindle, though it will list one if you have it. For iBooks you <em>must</em> have that code. It\'s not cheap, especially for a single title in the US. The simplest way round this is to use an \'aggregator\', a company that has a deal with Apple to supply titles to iBooks and will handle the ISBN side of things. The best known is <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Smashwords\" rel=\"homepage\" href=\"http://www.smashwords.com/\">Smashwords</a>. Unfortunately Smashwords only takes books in Word format, and it\'s a pain to format them for the Smashwords publication process. The one time I tried (with <em>Epiphany</em>, which has now been removed) the book got repeatedly rejected on the grounds that it was incorrectly formatted even though I followed the Smashwords guidelines to the letter. The company eventually conceded their own guidelines were wrong.\n\nThat was a while back and one assumes things are better now. But you still have to deal with word, not the simple epub export process you can get from Scrivener or Apple Pages. Why? When iBooks actually uses an epub file -- and if you publish direct through the service, with your own ISBN number, an epub file is what you will upload?\n\nI don\'t know. But then I don\'t know why iBooks is insisting on ISBN numbers for its own direct publications either, unless it\'s to frighten off the vast army of self publishers who want to get their work up there for free. ISBN numbers are incredibly useful for physical books. They provide the basis for inventory systems and, in the case of public lending right schemes, are the codes authors use to register their work.\n\nBut ebooks are digital. People search for them by author name and book title, not a numeric code. As far as I can see, they serve little purpose for an epublishing system, though perhaps I\'ve just missed something that Apple have spotted and Amazon have missed.\n\nEither way it makes iBooks an unattractive proposition for new authors looking to publish their work, unless they are willing to buy their own ISBN numbers of put up with the added work of dealing with aggregators. The whole point of digital is that it should be quick, easy and efficient. From the point of view of authors, Apple\'s service doesn\'t look that way right now.\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><img class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=933a6d35-f9e4-4ffe-b7ac-5ed3c3a39e1f\" alt=\"\" /></div>','The problem with iBooks','','inherit','open','open','','7688-revision-9','','','2011-03-06 10:29:57','2011-03-06 10:29:57','',7688,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7688-revision-9/',0,'revision','',0),(7699,1,'2011-03-06 10:30:15','2011-03-06 10:30:15','A lot of us with backlist books are now putting them back into circulation through self-published ebooks. I doubt anyone\'s making a fortune out of this. But it seems to make more sense to have books in circulation legitimately, at low e-prices, than to leave sales to second hand markets and the pirates.\r\n\r\nI\'ve only got round to putting up one back list title so far, <a title=\"Epiphany\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/standalones/epiphany/\"><em>Epiphany</em>,</a> now available for 99p.  I will try to get more online. It is a time-consuming process, though. And all of us involved in this kind of activity do need to issue a kind of caveat to existing readers: these are works we wrote some time ago. Like most people in this position, my writing\'s changed over the years. Early work is rarely indicative of later work. So expect to be surprised by a change in tone and style. And if you really feel you\'ve wasted your 99p or whatever you can always return it to Amazon for a refund.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->What I don\'t have planned at the moment is any move to extend this process beyond Kindle. One reason for this is, <a title=\"From Scrivener to Kindle step-by-step\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/from-scrivener-to-kindle-step-by-step/\">as I hope I showed in yesterday\'s post,</a> it is extremely easy to get things online with Amazon\'s ebook service. Everywhere else is, if you want to charge even a modest sum for your work, much more demanding.\r\n\r\nI\'m thinking in particular of Apple\'s iBooks here. I have iBooks on my iPad. It\'s OK but as a reader I much prefer Kindle. Unlike iBooks it runs on a variety of platforms, from Macs to PCs and Android devices. iBooks is designed for Apple alone. I\'ve no idea how popular it is but as an author publishing medium it poses one significant problem: you have to get yourself an <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number\" target=\"_blank\">ISBN</a> number for your work.\r\n\r\nA what? An International Standard Book Number, a unique code that will identify a single edition of your work in every market where it\'s sold.\r\n\r\nGiven that my backlist may one day extend to five or six works that will probably be something I decide to do. But if you\'re new to publishing, or just want to put up a short story or novella, that ISBN demand is a pain. In the UK the only way to get one is to <a href=\"http://www.isbn.nielsenbook.co.uk/controller.php?page=123\" target=\"_blank\">buy them from Nielsen.</a> Here are the prices...\r\n\r\n<img class=\"size-full wp-image-7690 alignnone\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-03-06 at 10.12.09\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Screen-shot-2011-03-06-at-10.12.09.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"543\" height=\"394\" />\r\n\r\nIf you\'re in the US you need to go to the <a href=\"http://www.isbn.org/standards/home/index.asp\" target=\"_blank\">ISBN Agency.</a> And note: where you are in the world limits your choice. So you can\'t buy a US ISBN from the UK (though that UK ISBN you buy will be good worldwide). Not that you\'d want to probably because in the US a single ISBN will cost you $125 and ten of them $250.\r\n\r\nAmazon doesn\'t demand you have an ISBN to publish on Kindle, though it will list one if you have it. For iBooks you <em>must</em> have that code. It\'s not cheap, especially for a single title in the US. The simplest way round this is to use an \'aggregator\', a company that has a deal with Apple to supply titles to iBooks and will handle the ISBN side of things. The best known is <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Smashwords\" rel=\"homepage\" href=\"http://www.smashwords.com/\">Smashwords</a>. Unfortunately Smashwords only takes books in Word format, and it\'s a pain to format them for the Smashwords publication process. The one time I tried (with <em>Epiphany</em>, which has now been removed) the book got repeatedly rejected on the grounds that it was incorrectly formatted even though I followed the Smashwords guidelines to the letter. The company eventually conceded their own guidelines were wrong.\r\n\r\nThat was a while back and one assumes things are better now. But you still have to deal with Word, not the simple epub export process you can get from Scrivener or Apple Pages. Why? When iBooks actually uses an epub file -- and if you publish direct through the service, with your own ISBN number, an epub file is what you will upload?\r\n\r\nI don\'t know. But then I don\'t know why iBooks is insisting on ISBN numbers for its own direct publications either, unless it\'s to frighten off the vast army of self publishers who want to get their work up there for free. ISBN numbers are incredibly useful for physical books. They provide the basis for inventory systems and, in the case of public lending right schemes, are the codes authors use to register their work.\r\n\r\nBut ebooks are digital. People search for them by author name and book title, not a numeric code. As far as I can see, they serve little purpose for an epublishing system, though perhaps I\'ve just missed something that Apple have spotted and Amazon have missed.\r\n\r\nEither way it makes iBooks an unattractive proposition for new authors looking to publish their work, unless they are willing to buy their own ISBN numbers of put up with the added work of dealing with aggregators. The whole point of digital is that it should be quick, easy and efficient. From the point of view of authors, Apple\'s service doesn\'t look that way right now.\r\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><img class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=933a6d35-f9e4-4ffe-b7ac-5ed3c3a39e1f\" alt=\"\" /></div>','The problem with iBooks','','inherit','open','open','','7688-revision-10','','','2011-03-06 10:30:15','2011-03-06 10:30:15','',7688,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7688-revision-10/',0,'revision','',0),(7700,1,'2011-03-06 11:26:58','2011-03-06 11:26:58','&nbsp;\n\nA lot of us with backlist books are now putting them back into circulation through self-published ebooks. I doubt anyone\'s making much money out of this. But it makes sense to have books in circulation legitimately, at modest prices, in a new electronic format, if you can, not just as recycled secondhand copies alone, which are sometimes hard to come by.\n\nI\'ve only got round to putting up one back list title so far, <a title=\"Epiphany\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/standalones/epiphany/\"><em>Epiphany</em>,</a> now available for 99p.  I will try to get more online. It is a time-consuming process, though. And all of us involved in this kind of activity do need to issue a kind of caveat to existing readers: these are works we wrote some time ago. Like most people in this position, my writing\'s changed over the years. Early work is rarely indicative of later work. So expect to be surprised by a change in tone and style. And if you really feel you\'ve wasted your 99p or whatever you can always return it to Amazon for a refund.\n\n<!--more-->What I don\'t have planned at the moment is any move to extend this process beyond Kindle. One reason for this is, <a title=\"From Scrivener to Kindle step-by-step\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/from-scrivener-to-kindle-step-by-step/\">as I hope I showed in yesterday\'s post,</a> it is extremely easy to get things online with Amazon\'s ebook service. Everywhere else is, if you want to charge even a modest sum for your work, much more demanding.\n\nI\'m thinking in particular of Apple\'s iBooks here. I have iBooks on my iPad. It\'s OK but as a reader I much prefer Kindle. Unlike iBooks it runs on a variety of platforms, from Macs to PCs and Android devices. iBooks is designed for Apple alone. I\'ve no idea how popular it is but as an author publishing medium it poses one significant problem: you have to get yourself an <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number\" target=\"_blank\">ISBN</a> number for your work.\n\nA what? An International Standard Book Number, a unique code that will identify a single edition of your work in every market where it\'s sold.\n\nGiven that my backlist may one day extend to five or six works that will probably be something I decide to do. But if you\'re new to publishing, or just want to put up a short story or novella, that ISBN demand is a pain. In the UK the only way to get one is to <a href=\"http://www.isbn.nielsenbook.co.uk/controller.php?page=123\" target=\"_blank\">buy them from Nielsen.</a> Here are the prices...\n\n<img class=\"size-full wp-image-7690 alignnone\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-03-06 at 10.12.09\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Screen-shot-2011-03-06-at-10.12.09.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"543\" height=\"394\" />\n\nIf you\'re in the US you need to go to the <a href=\"http://www.isbn.org/standards/home/index.asp\" target=\"_blank\">ISBN Agency.</a> And note: where you are in the world limits your choice. So you can\'t buy a US ISBN from the UK (though that UK ISBN you buy will be good worldwide). Not that you\'d want to probably because in the US a single ISBN will cost you $125 and ten of them $250.\n\nRemember that word \'edition\' too. If you want to publish a title as both ebook and paperback you need two ISBNs, one for each. These are individual identifiers, not generic ones.\n\nAmazon doesn\'t demand you have an ISBN to publish on Kindle, though it will list one if you have it. For iBooks you <em>must</em> have that code. It\'s not cheap, especially for a single title in the US. The simplest way round this is to use an \'aggregator\', a company that has a deal with Apple to supply titles to iBooks and will handle the ISBN side of things. The best known is <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Smashwords\" rel=\"homepage\" href=\"http://www.smashwords.com/\">Smashwords</a>. Unfortunately Smashwords only takes books in Word format, and it\'s a pain to format them for the Smashwords publication process. The one time I tried (with <em>Epiphany</em>, which has now been removed) the book got repeatedly rejected on the grounds that it was incorrectly formatted even though I followed the Smashwords guidelines to the letter. The company eventually conceded their own guidelines were wrong.\n\nThat was a while back and one assumes things are better now. But you still have to deal with Word, not the simple epub export process you can get from Scrivener or Apple Pages. Why? When iBooks actually uses an epub file -- and if you publish direct through the service, with your own ISBN number, an epub file is what you will upload?\n\nI don\'t know. But then I don\'t know why iBooks is insisting on ISBN numbers for its own direct publications either, unless it\'s to frighten off the vast army of self publishers who want to get their work up there for free. ISBN numbers are incredibly useful for physical books. They provide the basis for inventory systems and, in the case of public lending right schemes, are the codes authors use to register their work.\n\nBut ebooks are digital. People search for them by author name and book title, not a numeric code. As far as I can see, they serve little purpose for an epublishing system, though perhaps I\'ve just missed something that Apple have spotted and Amazon have missed.\n\nEither way it makes iBooks an unattractive proposition for new authors looking to publish their work, unless they are willing to buy their own ISBN numbers of put up with the added work of dealing with aggregators. The whole point of digital is that it should be quick, easy and efficient. From the point of view of authors, Apple\'s service doesn\'t look that way right now.\n\nAnd you know what? Even the ISBN people don\'t hide the fact that they\'re primarily there to service a print-based marketplace. Take a look at this from their \'must-fill\' form for new ISBN numbers (which you have to print out and return, by scan or mail, since there\'s no web form).\n\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Screen-shot-2011-03-06-at-10.33.03.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7701\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-03-06 at 10.33.03\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Screen-shot-2011-03-06-at-10.33.03-640x273.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"270\" /></a>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><img class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=933a6d35-f9e4-4ffe-b7ac-5ed3c3a39e1f\" alt=\"\" /></div>\nThe first person who can tell me correctly where the Verso is on an ebook wins a lollipop.','The problem with iBooks','','inherit','open','open','','7688-autosave','','','2011-03-06 11:26:58','2011-03-06 11:26:58','',7688,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7688-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(7701,1,'2011-03-06 10:35:11','2011-03-06 10:35:11','','Screen shot 2011-03-06 at 10.33.03','','inherit','open','open','','screen-shot-2011-03-06-at-10-33-03','','','2011-03-06 10:35:11','2011-03-06 10:35:11','',7688,'http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Screen-shot-2011-03-06-at-10.33.03.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(7702,1,'2011-03-06 10:31:04','2011-03-06 10:31:04','A lot of us with backlist books are now putting them back into circulation through self-published ebooks. I doubt anyone\'s making a fortune out of this. But it seems to make more sense to have books in circulation legitimately, at low e-prices, than to leave sales to second hand markets and the pirates.\r\n\r\nI\'ve only got round to putting up one back list title so far, <a title=\"Epiphany\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/standalones/epiphany/\"><em>Epiphany</em>,</a> now available for 99p.  I will try to get more online. It is a time-consuming process, though. And all of us involved in this kind of activity do need to issue a kind of caveat to existing readers: these are works we wrote some time ago. Like most people in this position, my writing\'s changed over the years. Early work is rarely indicative of later work. So expect to be surprised by a change in tone and style. And if you really feel you\'ve wasted your 99p or whatever you can always return it to Amazon for a refund.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->What I don\'t have planned at the moment is any move to extend this process beyond Kindle. One reason for this is, <a title=\"From Scrivener to Kindle step-by-step\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/from-scrivener-to-kindle-step-by-step/\">as I hope I showed in yesterday\'s post,</a> it is extremely easy to get things online with Amazon\'s ebook service. Everywhere else is, if you want to charge even a modest sum for your work, much more demanding.\r\n\r\nI\'m thinking in particular of Apple\'s iBooks here. I have iBooks on my iPad. It\'s OK but as a reader I much prefer Kindle. Unlike iBooks it runs on a variety of platforms, from Macs to PCs and Android devices. iBooks is designed for Apple alone. I\'ve no idea how popular it is but as an author publishing medium it poses one significant problem: you have to get yourself an <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number\" target=\"_blank\">ISBN</a> number for your work.\r\n\r\nA what? An International Standard Book Number, a unique code that will identify a single edition of your work in every market where it\'s sold.\r\n\r\nGiven that my backlist may one day extend to five or six works that will probably be something I decide to do. But if you\'re new to publishing, or just want to put up a short story or novella, that ISBN demand is a pain. In the UK the only way to get one is to <a href=\"http://www.isbn.nielsenbook.co.uk/controller.php?page=123\" target=\"_blank\">buy them from Nielsen.</a> Here are the prices...\r\n\r\n<img class=\"size-full wp-image-7690 alignnone\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-03-06 at 10.12.09\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Screen-shot-2011-03-06-at-10.12.09.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"543\" height=\"394\" />\r\n\r\nIf you\'re in the US you need to go to the <a href=\"http://www.isbn.org/standards/home/index.asp\" target=\"_blank\">ISBN Agency.</a> And note: where you are in the world limits your choice. So you can\'t buy a US ISBN from the UK (though that UK ISBN you buy will be good worldwide). Not that you\'d want to probably because in the US a single ISBN will cost you $125 and ten of them $250.\r\n\r\nAmazon doesn\'t demand you have an ISBN to publish on Kindle, though it will list one if you have it. For iBooks you <em>must</em> have that code. It\'s not cheap, especially for a single title in the US. The simplest way round this is to use an \'aggregator\', a company that has a deal with Apple to supply titles to iBooks and will handle the ISBN side of things. The best known is <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Smashwords\" rel=\"homepage\" href=\"http://www.smashwords.com/\">Smashwords</a>. Unfortunately Smashwords only takes books in Word format, and it\'s a pain to format them for the Smashwords publication process. The one time I tried (with <em>Epiphany</em>, which has now been removed) the book got repeatedly rejected on the grounds that it was incorrectly formatted even though I followed the Smashwords guidelines to the letter. The company eventually conceded their own guidelines were wrong.\r\n\r\nThat was a while back and one assumes things are better now. But you still have to deal with Word, not the simple epub export process you can get from Scrivener or Apple Pages. Why? When iBooks actually uses an epub file -- and if you publish direct through the service, with your own ISBN number, an epub file is what you will upload?\r\n\r\nI don\'t know. But then I don\'t know why iBooks is insisting on ISBN numbers for its own direct publications either, unless it\'s to frighten off the vast army of self publishers who want to get their work up there for free. ISBN numbers are incredibly useful for physical books. They provide the basis for inventory systems and, in the case of public lending right schemes, are the codes authors use to register their work.\r\n\r\nBut ebooks are digital. People search for them by author name and book title, not a numeric code. As far as I can see, they serve little purpose for an epublishing system, though perhaps I\'ve just missed something that Apple have spotted and Amazon have missed.\r\n\r\nEither way it makes iBooks an unattractive proposition for new authors looking to publish their work, unless they are willing to buy their own ISBN numbers of put up with the added work of dealing with aggregators. The whole point of digital is that it should be quick, easy and efficient. From the point of view of authors, Apple\'s service doesn\'t look that way right now.\r\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><img class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=933a6d35-f9e4-4ffe-b7ac-5ed3c3a39e1f\" alt=\"\" /></div>','The problem with iBooks','','inherit','open','open','','7688-revision-11','','','2011-03-06 10:31:04','2011-03-06 10:31:04','',7688,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7688-revision-11/',0,'revision','',0),(7703,1,'2011-03-06 10:36:19','2011-03-06 10:36:19','&nbsp;\r\n\r\nA lot of us with backlist books are now putting them back into circulation through self-published ebooks. I doubt anyone\'s making a fortune out of this. But it seems to make more sense to have books in circulation legitimately, at low e-prices, than to leave sales to second hand markets and the pirates.\r\n\r\nI\'ve only got round to putting up one back list title so far, <a title=\"Epiphany\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/standalones/epiphany/\"><em>Epiphany</em>,</a> now available for 99p.  I will try to get more online. It is a time-consuming process, though. And all of us involved in this kind of activity do need to issue a kind of caveat to existing readers: these are works we wrote some time ago. Like most people in this position, my writing\'s changed over the years. Early work is rarely indicative of later work. So expect to be surprised by a change in tone and style. And if you really feel you\'ve wasted your 99p or whatever you can always return it to Amazon for a refund.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->What I don\'t have planned at the moment is any move to extend this process beyond Kindle. One reason for this is, <a title=\"From Scrivener to Kindle step-by-step\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/from-scrivener-to-kindle-step-by-step/\">as I hope I showed in yesterday\'s post,</a> it is extremely easy to get things online with Amazon\'s ebook service. Everywhere else is, if you want to charge even a modest sum for your work, much more demanding.\r\n\r\nI\'m thinking in particular of Apple\'s iBooks here. I have iBooks on my iPad. It\'s OK but as a reader I much prefer Kindle. Unlike iBooks it runs on a variety of platforms, from Macs to PCs and Android devices. iBooks is designed for Apple alone. I\'ve no idea how popular it is but as an author publishing medium it poses one significant problem: you have to get yourself an <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number\" target=\"_blank\">ISBN</a> number for your work.\r\n\r\nA what? An International Standard Book Number, a unique code that will identify a single edition of your work in every market where it\'s sold.\r\n\r\nGiven that my backlist may one day extend to five or six works that will probably be something I decide to do. But if you\'re new to publishing, or just want to put up a short story or novella, that ISBN demand is a pain. In the UK the only way to get one is to <a href=\"http://www.isbn.nielsenbook.co.uk/controller.php?page=123\" target=\"_blank\">buy them from Nielsen.</a> Here are the prices...\r\n\r\n<img class=\"size-full wp-image-7690 alignnone\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-03-06 at 10.12.09\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Screen-shot-2011-03-06-at-10.12.09.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"543\" height=\"394\" />\r\n\r\nIf you\'re in the US you need to go to the <a href=\"http://www.isbn.org/standards/home/index.asp\" target=\"_blank\">ISBN Agency.</a> And note: where you are in the world limits your choice. So you can\'t buy a US ISBN from the UK (though that UK ISBN you buy will be good worldwide). Not that you\'d want to probably because in the US a single ISBN will cost you $125 and ten of them $250.\r\n\r\nAmazon doesn\'t demand you have an ISBN to publish on Kindle, though it will list one if you have it. For iBooks you <em>must</em> have that code. It\'s not cheap, especially for a single title in the US. The simplest way round this is to use an \'aggregator\', a company that has a deal with Apple to supply titles to iBooks and will handle the ISBN side of things. The best known is <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Smashwords\" rel=\"homepage\" href=\"http://www.smashwords.com/\">Smashwords</a>. Unfortunately Smashwords only takes books in Word format, and it\'s a pain to format them for the Smashwords publication process. The one time I tried (with <em>Epiphany</em>, which has now been removed) the book got repeatedly rejected on the grounds that it was incorrectly formatted even though I followed the Smashwords guidelines to the letter. The company eventually conceded their own guidelines were wrong.\r\n\r\nThat was a while back and one assumes things are better now. But you still have to deal with Word, not the simple epub export process you can get from Scrivener or Apple Pages. Why? When iBooks actually uses an epub file -- and if you publish direct through the service, with your own ISBN number, an epub file is what you will upload?\r\n\r\nI don\'t know. But then I don\'t know why iBooks is insisting on ISBN numbers for its own direct publications either, unless it\'s to frighten off the vast army of self publishers who want to get their work up there for free. ISBN numbers are incredibly useful for physical books. They provide the basis for inventory systems and, in the case of public lending right schemes, are the codes authors use to register their work.\r\n\r\nBut ebooks are digital. People search for them by author name and book title, not a numeric code. As far as I can see, they serve little purpose for an epublishing system, though perhaps I\'ve just missed something that Apple have spotted and Amazon have missed.\r\n\r\nEither way it makes iBooks an unattractive proposition for new authors looking to publish their work, unless they are willing to buy their own ISBN numbers of put up with the added work of dealing with aggregators. The whole point of digital is that it should be quick, easy and efficient. From the point of view of authors, Apple\'s service doesn\'t look that way right now.\r\n\r\nAnd you know what? Even the ISBN people don\'t hide the fact that they\'re primarily there to service a print-based marketplace. Take a look at this from their \'must-fill\' form for new ISBN numbers (which you have to print out and return, by scan or mail, since there\'s no web form).\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Screen-shot-2011-03-06-at-10.33.03.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7701\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-03-06 at 10.33.03\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Screen-shot-2011-03-06-at-10.33.03-640x273.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"270\" /></a>\r\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><img class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=933a6d35-f9e4-4ffe-b7ac-5ed3c3a39e1f\" alt=\"\" /></div>\r\nThe first person who can tell me correctly where the Verso is on an ebook wins a lollipop.','The problem with iBooks','','inherit','open','open','','7688-revision-12','','','2011-03-06 10:36:19','2011-03-06 10:36:19','',7688,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7688-revision-12/',0,'revision','',0),(7704,1,'2011-03-06 11:23:27','2011-03-06 11:23:27','&nbsp;\r\n\r\nA lot of us with backlist books are now putting them back into circulation through self-published ebooks. I doubt anyone\'s making a fortune out of this. But it seems to make more sense to have books in circulation legitimately, at low e-prices, than to leave sales to second hand markets and the pirates.\r\n\r\nI\'ve only got round to putting up one back list title so far, <a title=\"Epiphany\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/standalones/epiphany/\"><em>Epiphany</em>,</a> now available for 99p.  I will try to get more online. It is a time-consuming process, though. And all of us involved in this kind of activity do need to issue a kind of caveat to existing readers: these are works we wrote some time ago. Like most people in this position, my writing\'s changed over the years. Early work is rarely indicative of later work. So expect to be surprised by a change in tone and style. And if you really feel you\'ve wasted your 99p or whatever you can always return it to Amazon for a refund.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->What I don\'t have planned at the moment is any move to extend this process beyond Kindle. One reason for this is, <a title=\"From Scrivener to Kindle step-by-step\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/from-scrivener-to-kindle-step-by-step/\">as I hope I showed in yesterday\'s post,</a> it is extremely easy to get things online with Amazon\'s ebook service. Everywhere else is, if you want to charge even a modest sum for your work, much more demanding.\r\n\r\nI\'m thinking in particular of Apple\'s iBooks here. I have iBooks on my iPad. It\'s OK but as a reader I much prefer Kindle. Unlike iBooks it runs on a variety of platforms, from Macs to PCs and Android devices. iBooks is designed for Apple alone. I\'ve no idea how popular it is but as an author publishing medium it poses one significant problem: you have to get yourself an <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number\" target=\"_blank\">ISBN</a> number for your work.\r\n\r\nA what? An International Standard Book Number, a unique code that will identify a single edition of your work in every market where it\'s sold.\r\n\r\nGiven that my backlist may one day extend to five or six works that will probably be something I decide to do. But if you\'re new to publishing, or just want to put up a short story or novella, that ISBN demand is a pain. In the UK the only way to get one is to <a href=\"http://www.isbn.nielsenbook.co.uk/controller.php?page=123\" target=\"_blank\">buy them from Nielsen.</a> Here are the prices...\r\n\r\n<img class=\"size-full wp-image-7690 alignnone\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-03-06 at 10.12.09\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Screen-shot-2011-03-06-at-10.12.09.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"543\" height=\"394\" />\r\n\r\nIf you\'re in the US you need to go to the <a href=\"http://www.isbn.org/standards/home/index.asp\" target=\"_blank\">ISBN Agency.</a> And note: where you are in the world limits your choice. So you can\'t buy a US ISBN from the UK (though that UK ISBN you buy will be good worldwide). Not that you\'d want to probably because in the US a single ISBN will cost you $125 and ten of them $250.\r\n\r\nRemember that word \'edition\' too. If you want to publish a title as both ebook and paperback you need two ISBNs, one for each. These are individual identifiers, not generic ones.\r\n\r\nAmazon doesn\'t demand you have an ISBN to publish on Kindle, though it will list one if you have it. For iBooks you <em>must</em> have that code. It\'s not cheap, especially for a single title in the US. The simplest way round this is to use an \'aggregator\', a company that has a deal with Apple to supply titles to iBooks and will handle the ISBN side of things. The best known is <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Smashwords\" rel=\"homepage\" href=\"http://www.smashwords.com/\">Smashwords</a>. Unfortunately Smashwords only takes books in Word format, and it\'s a pain to format them for the Smashwords publication process. The one time I tried (with <em>Epiphany</em>, which has now been removed) the book got repeatedly rejected on the grounds that it was incorrectly formatted even though I followed the Smashwords guidelines to the letter. The company eventually conceded their own guidelines were wrong.\r\n\r\nThat was a while back and one assumes things are better now. But you still have to deal with Word, not the simple epub export process you can get from Scrivener or Apple Pages. Why? When iBooks actually uses an epub file -- and if you publish direct through the service, with your own ISBN number, an epub file is what you will upload?\r\n\r\nI don\'t know. But then I don\'t know why iBooks is insisting on ISBN numbers for its own direct publications either, unless it\'s to frighten off the vast army of self publishers who want to get their work up there for free. ISBN numbers are incredibly useful for physical books. They provide the basis for inventory systems and, in the case of public lending right schemes, are the codes authors use to register their work.\r\n\r\nBut ebooks are digital. People search for them by author name and book title, not a numeric code. As far as I can see, they serve little purpose for an epublishing system, though perhaps I\'ve just missed something that Apple have spotted and Amazon have missed.\r\n\r\nEither way it makes iBooks an unattractive proposition for new authors looking to publish their work, unless they are willing to buy their own ISBN numbers of put up with the added work of dealing with aggregators. The whole point of digital is that it should be quick, easy and efficient. From the point of view of authors, Apple\'s service doesn\'t look that way right now.\r\n\r\nAnd you know what? Even the ISBN people don\'t hide the fact that they\'re primarily there to service a print-based marketplace. Take a look at this from their \'must-fill\' form for new ISBN numbers (which you have to print out and return, by scan or mail, since there\'s no web form).\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Screen-shot-2011-03-06-at-10.33.03.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7701\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-03-06 at 10.33.03\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Screen-shot-2011-03-06-at-10.33.03-640x273.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"270\" /></a>\r\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><img class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=933a6d35-f9e4-4ffe-b7ac-5ed3c3a39e1f\" alt=\"\" /></div>\r\nThe first person who can tell me correctly where the Verso is on an ebook wins a lollipop.','The problem with iBooks','','inherit','open','open','','7688-revision-13','','','2011-03-06 11:23:27','2011-03-06 11:23:27','',7688,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7688-revision-13/',0,'revision','',0),(7706,1,'2011-03-08 15:07:50','2011-03-08 15:07:50','You hear some odd advice in this business at times. One of the oddest old saws is the one that says you must always be writing something. Anything? Well, the conversation never gets that far. The idea, as far as I understand it, is that writing is an obsessive act, a kind of mental warfare. Walking away from the battlefront risks losing the campaign. Ooer....\n\nMy opinion (and it is just my opinion)?\n\nPoppycock. Dangerous poppycock too.\n\nLet me be plain about this. I write at least a book a year. I always deliver ahead of time. It\'s been ages since any of those have required major surgery before publication. I like to think I\'m professional about what I do.\n\nI do not have word targets.\n\nI never work weekends or nights unless I\'m travelling and there\'s nothing better to do.\n\nI will from time to time quite deliberately walk away from a project and not read a word of it for a week or two.\n\n<!--more-->The present WIP is a case in point. Here\'s the word count status over the three months I\'ve been working on it.\n\nDecember 25: 5,100 words\n\nJanuary 26: 23,000 words\n\nFebruary 3: 35,618 words\n\nFebruary 17, 50,000 words\n\nFebruary 25, 55,000 words\n\nAnd today? 58,228 words.\n\nEek? Am I slowing down? In word terms, yes. But for the last two weeks I\'ve been revising the story, making it work more fluently with a bit of luck. Refining the narrative so I\'m better placed to proceed to the next stage.\n\nThen at the weekend I went off to do some promotion in Dublin, and tomorrow it\'s a research and TV trip to Italy. How much writing will I do over the next ten days? Very little in all probability?\n\nDoes this worry me? Not at all. A bit of space between you and your work is good at times. You come back at it with fresh eyes. Problems which once seemed insurmountable sometimes appear puny and easily dealt with.\n\nThe problem with the \'I will write 40,000 words a month\' school of fiction is it\'s based around quantity alone. What if half those words are the wrong ones? Then you\'ve only written 20,000 words really. And worse, you\'re going to have to spend time going through that 40K mess working out which ones are good ones and which ones expendable.\n\nWriting\'s not a race. At least if it is, it\'s a marathon, not a sprint, for most of us anyway. How do I meet those deadlines? Simple, I take what\'s in the contract and subtract a month or two of my own. Then work to my own schedule, not the contracts.\n\nBooks get finished through steady, efficient workmanship, produced by writers in control of their craft. Not by hammering out words incessantly and hoping that somehow in the end they\'ll fit.\n\nOh -- and the other joy of not writing is i','It\'s not a sin to stop writing','','inherit','open','open','','7705-revision','','','2011-03-08 15:07:50','2011-03-08 15:07:50','',7705,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7705-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(7707,1,'2011-03-08 15:08:18','2011-03-08 15:08:18','You hear some odd advice in this business at times. One of the oddest old saws is the one that says you must always be writing something. Anything? Well, the conversation never gets that far. The idea, as far as I understand it, is that writing is an obsessive act, a kind of mental warfare. Walking away from the battlefront risks losing the campaign. Ooer....\r\n\r\nMy opinion (and it is just my opinion)?\r\n\r\nPoppycock. Dangerous poppycock too.\r\n\r\nLet me be plain about this. I write at least a book a year. I always deliver ahead of time. It\'s been ages since any of those have required major surgery before publication. I like to think I\'m professional about what I do.\r\n\r\nI do not have word targets.\r\n\r\nI never work weekends or nights unless I\'m travelling and there\'s nothing better to do.\r\n\r\nI will from time to time quite deliberately walk away from a project and not read a word of it for a week or two.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->The present WIP is a case in point. Here\'s the word count status over the three months I\'ve been working on it.\r\n\r\nDecember 25: 5,100 words\r\n\r\nJanuary 26: 23,000 words\r\n\r\nFebruary 3: 35,618 words\r\n\r\nFebruary 17, 50,000 words\r\n\r\nFebruary 25, 55,000 words\r\n\r\nAnd today? 58,228 words.\r\n\r\nEek? Am I slowing down? In word terms, yes. But for the last two weeks I\'ve been revising the story, making it work more fluently with a bit of luck. Refining the narrative so I\'m better placed to proceed to the next stage.\r\n\r\nThen at the weekend I went off to do some promotion in Dublin, and tomorrow it\'s a research and TV trip to Italy. How much writing will I do over the next ten days? Very little in all probability?\r\n\r\nDoes this worry me? Not at all. A bit of space between you and your work is good at times. You come back at it with fresh eyes. Problems which once seemed insurmountable sometimes appear puny and easily dealt with.\r\n\r\nThe problem with the \'I will write 40,000 words a month\' school of fiction is it\'s based around quantity alone. What if half those words are the wrong ones? Then you\'ve only written 20,000 words really. And worse, you\'re going to have to spend time going through that 40K mess working out which ones are good ones and which ones expendable.\r\n\r\nWriting\'s not a race. At least if it is, it\'s a marathon, not a sprint, for most of us anyway. How do I meet those deadlines? Simple, I take what\'s in the contract and subtract a month or two of my own. Then work to my own schedule, not the contracts.\r\n\r\nBooks get finished through steady, efficient workmanship, produced by writers in control of their craft. Not by hammering out words incessantly and hoping that somehow in the end they\'ll fit.\r\n\r\nOh -- and the other joy of not writing is it gives me more time to read, and there\'s never enough of that these days either. And a lovely stash of books just went into the case and the Kindle for that too.','It\'s not a sin to stop writing','','inherit','open','open','','7705-revision-2','','','2011-03-08 15:08:18','2011-03-08 15:08:18','',7705,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7705-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(7708,1,'2011-03-08 15:08:34','2011-03-08 15:08:34','You hear some odd advice in this business at times. One of the oddest old saws is the one that says you must always be writing something. Anything? Well, the conversation never gets that far. The idea, as far as I understand it, is that writing is an obsessive act, a kind of mental warfare. Walking away from the battlefront risks losing the campaign. Ooer....\r\n\r\nMy opinion (and it is just my opinion)?\r\n\r\nPoppycock. Dangerous poppycock too.\r\n\r\nLet me be plain about this. I write at least a book a year. I always deliver ahead of time. It\'s been ages since any of those have required major surgery before publication. I like to think I\'m professional about what I do.\r\n\r\nI do not have word targets.\r\n\r\nI never work weekends or nights unless I\'m travelling and there\'s nothing better to do.\r\n\r\nI will from time to time quite deliberately walk away from a project and not read a word of it for a week or two.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->The present WIP is a case in point. Here\'s the word count status over the three months I\'ve been working on it.\r\n\r\nDecember 25: 5,100 words\r\n\r\nJanuary 26: 23,000 words\r\n\r\nFebruary 3: 35,618 words\r\n\r\nFebruary 17, 50,000 words\r\n\r\nFebruary 25, 55,000 words\r\n\r\nAnd today? 58,228 words.\r\n\r\nEek? Am I slowing down? In word terms, yes. But for the last two weeks I\'ve been revising the story, making it work more fluently with a bit of luck. Refining the narrative so I\'m better placed to proceed to the next stage.\r\n\r\nThen at the weekend I went off to do some promotion in Dublin, and tomorrow it\'s a research and TV trip to Italy. How much writing will I do over the next ten days? Very little in all probability?\r\n\r\nDoes this worry me? Not at all. A bit of space between you and your work is good at times. You come back at it with fresh eyes. Problems which once seemed insurmountable sometimes appear puny and easily dealt with.\r\n\r\nThe problem with the \'I will write 40,000 words a month\' school of fiction is it\'s based around quantity alone. What if half those words are the wrong ones? Then you\'ve only written 20,000 words really. And worse, you\'re going to have to spend time going through that 40K mess working out which ones are good ones and which ones expendable.\r\n\r\nWriting\'s not a race. At least if it is, it\'s a marathon, not a sprint, for most of us anyway. How do I meet those deadlines? Simple, I take what\'s in the contract and subtract a month or two of my own. Then work to my own schedule, not the contracts.\r\n\r\nBooks get finished through steady, efficient workmanship, produced by writers in control of their craft. Not by hammering out words incessantly and hoping that somehow in the end they\'ll fit.\r\n\r\nOh -- and the other joy of not writing is it gives me more time to read, and there\'s never enough of that these days either. And a lovely stash of books just went into the case and the Kindle for that too.','It\'s not a sin to stop writing','','inherit','open','open','','7705-revision-3','','','2011-03-08 15:08:34','2011-03-08 15:08:34','',7705,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7705-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(7709,1,'2011-03-08 15:09:57','2011-03-08 15:09:57','You hear some odd advice in this business at times. One of the oddest old saws is the one that says you must always be writing something. Anything? Well, the conversation never gets that far. The idea, as far as I understand it, is that writing is an obsessive act, a kind of mental warfare. Walking away from the battlefront risks losing the campaign. Ooer....\r\n\r\nMy opinion (and it is just my opinion)?\r\n\r\nPoppycock. Dangerous poppycock too.\r\n\r\nLet me be plain about this. I write at least a book a year. I always deliver ahead of time. It\'s been ages since any of those have required major surgery before publication. I like to think I\'m professional about what I do.\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>I do not have serious word targets in terms of output (though I will occasionally try to stick to an optimum length for scenes in many cases -- for narrative reasons, not \'productivity\').</li>\r\n	<li>I never work weekends or nights unless I\'m travelling and there\'s nothing better to do.</li>\r\n	<li>I will from time to time quite deliberately walk away from a project and not read a word of it for a week or two.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<!--more-->The present WIP is a case in point. Here\'s the word count status over the three months I\'ve been working on it.\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>December 25: 5,100 words</li>\r\n	<li>January 26: 23,000 words</li>\r\n	<li>February 3: 35,618 words</li>\r\n	<li>February 17, 50,000 words</li>\r\n	<li>February 25, 55,000 words</li>\r\n	<li>And today? 58,228 words.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nEek? Am I slowing down? In word terms, yes. But for the last two weeks I\'ve been revising the story, making it work more fluently with a bit of luck. Refining the narrative so I\'m better placed to proceed to the next stage.\r\n\r\nThen at the weekend I went off to do some promotion in Dublin, and tomorrow it\'s a research and TV trip to Italy. How much writing will I do over the next ten days? Very little in all probability?\r\n\r\nDoes this worry me? Not at all. A bit of space between you and your work is good at times. You come back at it with fresh eyes. Problems which once seemed insurmountable sometimes appear puny and easily dealt with.\r\n\r\nThe problem with the \'I will write 40,000 words a month\' school of fiction is it\'s based around quantity alone. What if half those words are the wrong ones? Then you\'ve only written 20,000 words really. And worse, you\'re going to have to spend time going through that 40K mess working out which ones are good ones and which ones expendable.\r\n\r\nWriting\'s not a race. At least if it is, it\'s a marathon, not a sprint, for most of us anyway. How do I meet those deadlines? Simple, I take what\'s in the contract and subtract a month or two of my own. Then work to my own schedule, not the contracts.\r\n\r\nBooks get finished through steady, efficient workmanship, produced by writers in control of their craft. Not by hammering out words incessantly and hoping that somehow in the end they\'ll fit.\r\n\r\nOh -- and the other joy of not writing is it gives me more time to read, and there\'s never enough of that these days either. And a lovely stash of books just went into the case and the Kindle for that too.','It\'s not a sin to stop writing','','inherit','open','open','','7705-revision-4','','','2011-03-08 15:09:57','2011-03-08 15:09:57','',7705,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7705-revision-4/',0,'revision','',0),(7710,1,'2011-03-08 15:10:07','2011-03-08 15:10:07','You hear some odd advice in this business at times. One of the oddest old saws is the one that says you must always be writing something. Anything? Well, the conversation never gets that far. The idea, as far as I understand it, is that writing is an obsessive act, a kind of mental warfare. Walking away from the battlefront risks losing the campaign. Ooer....\r\n\r\nMy opinion (and it is just my opinion)?\r\n\r\nPoppycock. Dangerous poppycock too.\r\n\r\nLet me be plain about this. I write at least a book a year. I always deliver ahead of time. It\'s been ages since any of those have required major surgery before publication. I like to think I\'m professional about what I do.\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>I do not have serious word targets in terms of output (though I will occasionally try to stick to an optimum length for scenes in many cases -- for narrative reasons, not \'productivity\').</li>\r\n	<li>I never work weekends or nights unless I\'m travelling and there\'s nothing better to do.</li>\r\n	<li>I will from time to time quite deliberately walk away from a project and not read a word of it for a week or two.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<!--more-->The present WIP is a case in point. Here\'s the word count status over the three months I\'ve been working on it.\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>December 25: 5,100 words</li>\r\n	<li>January 26: 23,000 words</li>\r\n	<li>February 3: 35,618 words</li>\r\n	<li>February 17, 50,000 words</li>\r\n	<li>February 25, 55,000 words</li>\r\n	<li>And today? 58,228 words.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nEek? Am I slowing down? In word terms, yes. But for the last two weeks I\'ve been revising the story, making it work more fluently with a bit of luck. Refining the narrative so I\'m better placed to proceed to the next stage.\r\n\r\nThen at the weekend I went off to do some promotion in Dublin, and tomorrow it\'s a research and TV trip to Italy. How much writing will I do over the next ten days? Very little in all probability?\r\n\r\nDoes this worry me? Not at all. A bit of space between you and your work is good at times. You come back at it with fresh eyes. Problems which once seemed insurmountable sometimes appear puny and easily dealt with.\r\n\r\nThe problem with the \'I will write 40,000 words a month\' school of fiction is it\'s based around quantity alone. What if half those words are the wrong ones? Then you\'ve only written 20,000 words really. And worse, you\'re going to have to spend time going through that 40K mess working out which ones are good ones and which ones expendable.\r\n\r\nWriting\'s not a race. At least if it is, it\'s a marathon, not a sprint, for most of us anyway. How do I meet those deadlines? Simple, I take what\'s in the contract and subtract a month or two of my own. Then work to my own schedule, not the contracts.\r\n\r\nBooks get finished through steady, efficient workmanship, produced by writers in control of their craft. Not by hammering out words incessantly and hoping that somehow in the end they\'ll fit.\r\n\r\nOh -- and the other joy of not writing is it gives me more time to read, and there\'s never enough of that these days either. And a lovely stash of books just went into the case and the Kindle for that too.','It\'s not a sin to stop writing','','inherit','open','open','','7705-revision-5','','','2011-03-08 15:10:07','2011-03-08 15:10:07','',7705,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7705-revision-5/',0,'revision','',0),(7711,1,'2011-03-08 15:11:36','2011-03-08 15:11:36','You hear some odd advice in this business at times. One of the oddest old saws is the one that says you must always be writing something. Anything? Well, the conversation never gets that far. The idea, as far as I understand it, is that writing is an obsessive act, a kind of mental warfare. Walking away from the battlefront risks losing the campaign. Ooer....\n\nMy opinion (and it is just my opinion)?\n\nPoppycock. Dangerous poppycock too.\n\nLet me be plain about this. I write at least a book a year. I always deliver ahead of time. It\'s been ages since any of those have required major surgery before publication. I like to think I\'m professional about what I do.\n<ul>\n	<li>I do not have serious word targets in terms of output (though I will occasionally try to stick to an optimum length for scenes -- for narrative reasons, not \'productivity\').</li>\n	<li>I never work weekends or nights unless I\'m travelling and there\'s nothing better to do.</li>\n	<li>I will from time to time quite deliberately walk away from a project and not read a word of it for a week or two.</li>\n</ul>\n<!--more-->The present WIP is a case in point. Here\'s the word count status over the three months I\'ve been working on it.\n<ul>\n	<li>December 25: 5,100 words</li>\n	<li>January 26: 23,000 words</li>\n	<li>February 3: 35,618 words</li>\n	<li>February 17, 50,000 words</li>\n	<li>February 25, 55,000 words</li>\n	<li>And today? 58,228 words.</li>\n</ul>\nEek! Am I slowing down? In word terms, yes. But for the last two weeks I\'ve been revising the story, making it work more fluently with a bit of luck. Refining the narrative so I\'m better placed to proceed to the next stage.\n\nThen at the weekend I went off to do some promotion in Dublin, and tomorrow it\'s a research and TV trip to Italy. How much writing will I do over the next ten days? Very little in all probability.\n\nDoes this worry me? Not at all. A bit of space between you and your work is good at times. You come back at it with fresh eyes. Problems which once seemed insurmountable sometimes appear puny and easily dealt with. If the story\'s working you\'ll soon find your way back into it and begin to hit the kind o\n\nThe problem with the \'I will write 40,000 words a month\' school of fiction is it\'s based around quantity alone. What if half those words are the wrong ones? Then you\'ve only written 20,000 words really. And worse, you\'re going to have to spend time going through that 40K mess working out which ones are good ones and which ones expendable.\n\nWriting\'s not a race. At least if it is, it\'s a marathon, not a sprint, for most of us anyway. How do I meet those deadlines? Simple, I take what\'s in the contract and subtract a month or two of my own. Then work to my own schedule, not the contracts.\n\nBooks get finished through steady, efficient workmanship, produced by writers in control of their craft. Not by hammering out words incessantly and hoping that somehow in the end they\'ll fit.\n\nOh -- and the other joy of not writing is it gives me more time to read, and there\'s never enough of that these days either. And a lovely stash of books just went into the case and the Kindle for that too.','It\'s not a sin to stop writing','','inherit','open','open','','7705-revision-6','','','2011-03-08 15:11:36','2011-03-08 15:11:36','',7705,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7705-revision-6/',0,'revision','',0),(7712,1,'2011-03-08 15:13:26','2011-03-08 15:13:26','You hear some odd advice in this business at times. One of the oddest old saws is the one that says you must always be writing something. Anything? Well, the conversation never gets that far. The idea, as far as I understand it, is that writing is an obsessive act, a kind of mental warfare. Walking away from the battlefront risks losing the campaign. Ooer....\n\nMy opinion (and it is just my opinion)?\n\nPoppycock. Dangerous poppycock too.\n\nLet me be plain about this. I write at least a book a year. I always deliver ahead of time. It\'s been ages since any of those have required major surgery before publication. I like to think I\'m professional about what I do.\n<ul>\n	<li>I do not have serious word targets in terms of output (though I will occasionally try to stick to an optimum length for scenes -- for narrative reasons, not \'productivity\').</li>\n	<li>I never work weekends or nights unless I\'m travelling and there\'s nothing better to do.</li>\n	<li>I will from time to time quite deliberately walk away from a project and not read a word of it for a week or two.</li>\n</ul>\n<!--more-->The present WIP is a case in point. Here\'s the word count status over the three months I\'ve been working on it.\n<ul>\n	<li>December 25: 5,100 words</li>\n	<li>January 26: 23,000 words</li>\n	<li>February 3: 35,618 words</li>\n	<li>February 17, 50,000 words</li>\n	<li>February 25, 55,000 words</li>\n	<li>And today? 58,228 words.</li>\n</ul>\nEek! Am I slowing down? In word terms, yes. But for the last two weeks I\'ve been revising the story, making it work more fluently with a bit of luck. Refining the narrative so I\'m better placed to proceed to the next stage.\n\nThen at the weekend I went off to do some promotion in Dublin, and tomorrow it\'s a research and TV trip to Italy. How much writing will I do over the next ten days? Very little in all probability.\n\nDoes this worry me? Not at all. A bit of space between you and your work is good at times. You come back at it with fresh eyes. Problems which once seemed insurmountable sometimes appear puny and easily dealt with. If the story\'s working you\'ll soon find your way back into it and begin to hit the kind of output levels you had before you took a breather.\n\nThe problem with the \'I will write 40,000 words a month\' school of fiction is it\'s based around quantity alone. What if half those words are the wrong ones? Then you\'ve only written 20,000 words really. And worse, you\'re going to have to spend time going through that 40K mess working out which ones are good ones and which ones expendable.\n\nWriting\'s not a race. At least if it is, it\'s a marathon, not a sprint, for most of us anyway. How do I meet those deadlines? Simple, I take what\'s in the contract and subtract a month or two of my own. Then carry on to my own schedule, not the contracts.\n\nBooks get finished through steady, efficient workmanship, produced by writers in control of their craft. Not by hammering out words incessantly and hoping that somehow in the end they\'ll fit.\n\nOh -- and the other joy of not writing is it gives me more time to read, and there\'s never enough of that these days either. And a lovely stash of books just went into the case and the Kindle for that too.','It\'s not a sin to stop writing','','inherit','open','open','','7705-autosave','','','2011-03-08 15:13:26','2011-03-08 15:13:26','',7705,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7705-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(7713,1,'2011-03-08 17:48:59','2011-03-08 17:48:59','That Costa bloke has just got his third coveted starred review from <em>Publishers Weekly</em> for <em>The Fallen Angel</em> which will be out in the US on April 26th. I do hope it doesn\'t go to his head. The others were for <em>The Lizard\'s Bite</em> and <em>The Garden of Evil.</em>\r\n\r\nFrom all of his to PW... thank you!\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Screen-shot-2011-03-08-at-17.34.59.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7714\" title=\"PW\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Screen-shot-2011-03-08-at-17.34.59.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"638\" height=\"268\" /></a>','<i>The Fallen Angel</i> gets a PW starred review','','publish','open','open','','thank-you-pw-for-my-third-starred-review','','','2011-03-08 18:03:26','2011-03-08 18:03:26','',0,'http://davidhewson.com/?p=7713',0,'post','',0),(7714,1,'2011-03-08 17:38:58','2011-03-08 17:38:58','','PW','','inherit','open','open','','screen-shot-2011-03-08-at-17-34-59','','','2011-03-08 17:38:58','2011-03-08 17:38:58','',7713,'http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Screen-shot-2011-03-08-at-17.34.59.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(7715,1,'2011-03-08 17:38:34','2011-03-08 17:38:34','Publishers Weekly has just reviewed <em>The Fallen Angel</em> which will be out in the US on April 25th. Deeply flattered to see I\'ve got my third coveted starred review of the series -- the others were for <em>The Lizard\'s Bite</em> and <em>The Garden of Evil.</em>\n\nThank you!','Thank you PW for my third starred review','','inherit','open','open','','7713-revision','','','2011-03-08 17:38:34','2011-03-08 17:38:34','',7713,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7713-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(7716,1,'2011-03-08 17:39:21','2011-03-08 17:39:21','Publishers Weekly has just reviewed <em>The Fallen Angel</em> which will be out in the US on April 26th. Deeply flattered to see I\'ve got my third coveted starred review of the series -- the others were for <em>The Lizard\'s Bite</em> and <em>The Garden of Evil.</em>\r\n\r\nThank you!\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Screen-shot-2011-03-08-at-17.34.59.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7714\" title=\"PW\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Screen-shot-2011-03-08-at-17.34.59.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"638\" height=\"268\" /></a>','Thank you PW for my third starred review','','inherit','open','open','','7713-revision-2','','','2011-03-08 17:39:21','2011-03-08 17:39:21','',7713,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7713-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(7717,1,'2011-03-08 17:39:37','2011-03-08 17:39:37','Publishers Weekly has just reviewed <em>The Fallen Angel</em> which will be out in the US on April 26th. Deeply flattered to see I\'ve got my third coveted starred review of the series -- the others were for <em>The Lizard\'s Bite</em> and <em>The Garden of Evil.</em>\r\n\r\nThank you!\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Screen-shot-2011-03-08-at-17.34.59.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7714\" title=\"PW\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Screen-shot-2011-03-08-at-17.34.59.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"638\" height=\"268\" /></a>','Thank you PW for my third starred review','','inherit','open','open','','7713-revision-3','','','2011-03-08 17:39:37','2011-03-08 17:39:37','',7713,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7713-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(7718,1,'2011-03-08 17:40:44','2011-03-08 17:40:44','Publishers Weekly has just reviewed <em>The Fallen Angel</em> which will be out in the US on April 26th. Deeply flattered to see I\'ve got my third coveted starred review of the series -- the others were for <em>The Lizard\'s Bite</em> and <em>The Garden of Evil.</em>\n\nThank you!\n\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Screen-shot-2011-03-08-at-17.34.59.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7714\" title=\"PW\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Screen-shot-2011-03-08-at-17.34.59.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"638\" height=\"268\" /></a>','Thank you PW for my third starred review','','inherit','open','open','','7713-revision-4','','','2011-03-08 17:40:44','2011-03-08 17:40:44','',7713,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7713-revision-4/',0,'revision','',0),(7720,1,'2011-03-08 17:48:40','2011-03-08 17:48:40','That Costa bloke has just got his third coveted starred review from <em>Publishers Weekly</em> for <em>The Fallen Angel</em> which will be out in the US on April 26th. I do hope it doesn\'t go to his head. The others were for <em>The Lizard\'s Bite</em> and <em>The Garden of Evil.</em>\n\nThank you!\n\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Screen-shot-2011-03-08-at-17.34.59.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7714\" title=\"PW\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Screen-shot-2011-03-08-at-17.34.59.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"638\" height=\"268\" /></a>','Thank you PW for my third starred review','','inherit','open','open','','7713-revision-6','','','2011-03-08 17:48:40','2011-03-08 17:48:40','',7713,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7713-revision-6/',0,'revision','',0),(7719,1,'2011-03-08 17:47:02','2011-03-08 17:47:02','That Costa bloke has just got his third starred review from <em>Publishers Weekly</em> has just reviewed <em>The Fallen Angel</em> which will be out in the US on April 26th. Deeply flattered to see I\'ve got my third coveted starred review of the series -- the others were for <em>The Lizard\'s Bite</em> and <em>The Garden of Evil.</em>\n\nThank you!\n\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Screen-shot-2011-03-08-at-17.34.59.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7714\" title=\"PW\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Screen-shot-2011-03-08-at-17.34.59.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"638\" height=\"268\" /></a>','Thank you PW for my third starred review','','inherit','open','open','','7713-revision-5','','','2011-03-08 17:47:02','2011-03-08 17:47:02','',7713,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7713-revision-5/',0,'revision','',0),(7721,1,'2011-03-08 17:48:59','2011-03-08 17:48:59','That Costa bloke has just got his third coveted starred review from <em>Publishers Weekly</em> for <em>The Fallen Angel</em> which will be out in the US on April 26th. I do hope it doesn\'t go to his head. The others were for <em>The Lizard\'s Bite</em> and <em>The Garden of Evil.</em>\r\n\r\nFrom all of his to PW... thank you!\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Screen-shot-2011-03-08-at-17.34.59.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7714\" title=\"PW\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Screen-shot-2011-03-08-at-17.34.59.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"638\" height=\"268\" /></a>','Thank you PW for my third starred review','','inherit','open','open','','7713-revision-7','','','2011-03-08 17:48:59','2011-03-08 17:48:59','',7713,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7713-revision-7/',0,'revision','',0),(7722,1,'2011-05-01 22:04:30','2011-05-01 21:04:30','<blockquote>The unseen girl was screaming again, at the top of her voice. There was real agony and fear in her cries, not the drunkenness and violence he\'d come to recognise over the years. He could see his concern reflected in Agata\'s shocked features... Costa ran across the riverside road and down towards the tortuous web of lanes and alleys that meandered in every direction out from the ghetto like a tangle of veins an arteries wound around the human heart...</blockquote>\n<img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6616\" title=\"The Fallen Angel\" src=\"http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//wp-content/uploads/2011/01/fallen-angel-uk-small1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"362\" />When British academic Malise Gabriel falls to his death from a Rome apartment, detective Nic Costa rapidly comes to realise that there is much more to the accident than he first thought. It also becomes apparent that Malise\'s family -- mysterious and tragic daughter Mina, stoic wife Cecilia and troubled son Robert -- may be keeping vital information hidden.\n\nNic becomes obsessed with the case, intrigued by Mina\'s story which seems to be linked to the sixteenth-century real-life tragedy of a young Italian noblewoman, Beatrice Cenci.\n\nAs the investigation deepens, Rome\'s dark and seedy side is uncovered, revealing a tangle of deceit, treachery and corruption. Costa realises that the key to the truth lies with the Gabriels. Why are they so unwilling to co-operate, and who, or what, is the reason for their silence?\n\nThe ninth novel in the Costa series is available from Macmillan in the UK and Delacorte in the US.\n<blockquote>Intricately plotted and gorgeously written, THE FALLEN ANGEL weaves a spell that will entrap you until the final page. David Hewson\'s Rome is dark and tantalizing, seductive and dangerous, a place where present-day crimes ring with the echoes of history.\n\n<strong>Tess Gerritsen</strong>, author of THE KILLING PLACE\n\nHewson is one of our finest crime writers.  Absorbing, intelligent, and with a staggeringly vivid sense of place.  No author has ever brought Rome so alive for me -- nor made it seem so sinister.\n\n<strong>Peter James</strong>, author of the bestselling Roy Grace series</blockquote>\n<strong>Reviews</strong>\n\n<em>Bookreporter</em>\n\nI am probably preaching to the choir here, but I cannot imagine anyone picking up a book authored by David Hewson and not falling in love with the subject matter within the first 50 pages or so. Hewson has made a profession of doing the amazing and making it look commonplace in novel after novel. THE FALLEN ANGEL, his latest and arguably best work, continues the practice while upping his own ante by a notch or three.\n\nIt is Hewson’s practice to take an ensemble cast — headed in interest, if not by rank, by Rome police detective Nic Costa — and place them against the backdrop of one of the world’s oldest cities as they solve one or more baffling murders. William Faulkner wrote: “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” Hewson’s novels bring these famous words to life, and perhaps nowhere more so than in THE FALLEN ANGEL.\n\n...even if you somehow put together at least part of what is ultimately revealed here, it is doubtful that you will figure out all of it, as Hewson drops revelations and bombshells — including a major one — right up through the final few pages. As tantalizing as the mystery is, however, the primary <em>raison d’etre</em> is Hewson’s unparalleled description of the ins and outs of Rome, as he guides you through the hidden nooks and crannies of the city through the eyes of his various and assorted characters.\n\nAt some point, Hewson should publish a travel guide to Rome and its surrounding environs (title it “Costa’s <em>Roma</em>“) as a source book to the magnificent scenery he has presented in THE FALLEN ANGEL and its predecessors. In the meantime, though, Hewson’s body of work provides a tempting map not only to an intriguing city but also to the darkest recesses of the human mind, past and present.\n\n<em>Associated Press</em>\n\n<!-- p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px \'Times New Roman\'} -->Hewson has a gift for weaving complex mysteries and thrills into a tight and captivating tale. Just as Michael Connelly reveals the dark underbelly of Los Angeles, Hewson immerses the reader into the city of Rome and shows a side that tourists don\'t often see\n\n<em>Publishers Weekly starred review (third in series)</em>\n\nNear the start of Hewson\'s accomplished ninth novel featuring Roman detective Nic Costa... an eccentric English scholar, Malise Gabriel, falls to his death from a balcony, and Nic finds the man\'s lovely 17-year-old daughter, Mina, kneeling over his body on the street. The neighborhoods of Rome offer satisfying texture, as does Roman history—in particular, the dramatic story of another daughter, Beatrice Cenci, who was executed centuries earlier for killing the father who molested her... once secrets begin to be revealed, especially about the Gabriel family, there\'s no stopping them. Readers will have a lot of fun peeling away the book\'s many layers, right down to the final, closing twist.\n\n<em>The Times</em>\n\nHewson presents an atmospheric portrait of a dark, corrupt Rome behind the jolly tourist façade, astutely mixing the historical and the present. This is the ninth in the Nic Costa series, and possibly the best.\n\n<em>New York Times</em>\n\nMr. Hewson’s crime novel, the ninth in a series, is like a satisfying “Law &amp; Order” episode set in modern-day Rome... the ending is the rich tiramisu we’ve waited for.<em>\n</em>\n\n<em>Daily Express</em>\n\nThis latest novel in David Hewson’s Italian-set crime sequence is as vivid and engaging as ever. His Roman copper, the unshakeable Nic Costa, is the perfect guide to one of the most atmospherically rendered cities in current crime fiction. Reading <em>The Fallen Angel</em> might have you planning your own trip to Rome.\n\nA variety of British and American novelists have set their books in Italy, notably Donna Leon and the late Michael Dibdin, whose Zen books have recently enjoyed TV adaptations. Hewson is ahead of the pack in this country-hopping band, mainly because his ambitions clearly stretch beyond the parameters of standard crime fiction.\n\n<em>Cleveland Plain Dealer</em>\n\nDavid Hewson ends nearly every chapter in a cliffhanger, and his writing is good enough to glow in the dark. His characters are fresh and vivid, his story deftly constructed, and his portrait of modern Rome dazzles. <strong>Grade A</strong>\n\n<strong>Photos</strong>\n\nBrowse David\'s gallery of research photos of Roman locations for <em>The Fallen Angel</em>, from the Cenci church in the ghetto to the Italian State Police Black Museum. And read more about <a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/2011/02/beatrice-cenci-the-true-story-tragedy-behind-the-fallen-angel/\">the background to the true story of Beatrice Cenci.</a>\n\n[gallery link=\"file\"]','The Fallen Angel','','inherit','open','open','','6602-autosave','','','2011-05-01 22:04:30','2011-05-01 21:04:30','',6602,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/6602-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(7723,1,'2011-02-04 11:18:33','2011-02-04 11:18:33','<blockquote>The unseen girl was screaming again, at the top of her voice. There was real agony and fear in her cries, not the drunkenness and violence he\'d come to recognise over the years. He could see his concern reflected in Agata\'s shocked features... Costa ran across the riverside road and down towards the tortuous web of lanes and alleys that meandered in every direction out from the ghetto like a tangle of veins an arteries wound around the human heart...</blockquote>\r\n<img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6616\" title=\"The Fallen Angel\" src=\"http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//wp-content/uploads/2011/01/fallen-angel-uk-small1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"362\" />When British academic Malise Gabriel falls to his death from a Rome apartment, detective Nic Costa rapidly comes to realise that there is much more to the accident than he first thought. It also becomes apparent that Malise\'s family -- mysterious and tragic daughter Mina, stoic wife Cecilia and troubled son Robert -- may be keeping vital information hidden.\r\n\r\nNic becomes obsessed with the case, intrigued by Mina\'s story which seems to be linked to the sixteenth-century real-life tragedy of a young Italian noblewoman, Beatrice Cenci.\r\n\r\nAs the investigation deepens, Rome\'s dark and seedy side is uncovered, revealing a tangle of deceit, treachery and corruption. Costa realises that the key to the truth lies with the Gabriels. Why are they so unwilling to co-operate, and who, or what, is the reason for their silence? <em>The ninth novel in the Costa series is available from Macmillan in the UK and will be published by Delacorte in the US on April 26, 2011.</em>\r\n<blockquote>Intricately plotted and gorgeously written, THE FALLEN ANGEL weaves a spell that will entrap you until the final page. David Hewson\'s Rome is dark and tantalizing, seductive and dangerous, a place where present-day crimes ring with the echoes of history.\r\n\r\n<strong>Tess Gerritsen</strong>, author of THE KILLING PLACE\r\n\r\nHewson is one of our finest crime writers.  Absorbing, intelligent, and with a staggeringly vivid sense of place.  No author has ever brought Rome so alive for me -- nor made it seem so sinister.\r\n\r\n<strong>Peter James</strong>, author of the bestselling Roy Grace series</blockquote>\r\nBrowse David\'s gallery of research photos of Roman locations for <em>The Fallen Angel</em>, from the Cenci church in the ghetto to the Italian State Police Black Museum. And read more about <a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/2011/02/beatrice-cenci-the-true-story-tragedy-behind-the-fallen-angel/\">the background to the true story of Beatrice Cenci. </a>\r\n\r\n[gallery link=\"file\"]','The Fallen Angel','','inherit','open','open','','6602-revision','','','2011-02-04 11:18:33','2011-02-04 11:18:33','',6602,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/02/6602-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(7724,1,'2011-03-08 17:58:12','2011-03-08 17:58:12','<blockquote>The unseen girl was screaming again, at the top of her voice. There was real agony and fear in her cries, not the drunkenness and violence he\'d come to recognise over the years. He could see his concern reflected in Agata\'s shocked features... Costa ran across the riverside road and down towards the tortuous web of lanes and alleys that meandered in every direction out from the ghetto like a tangle of veins an arteries wound around the human heart...</blockquote>\r\n<img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6616\" title=\"The Fallen Angel\" src=\"http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//wp-content/uploads/2011/01/fallen-angel-uk-small1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"362\" />When British academic Malise Gabriel falls to his death from a Rome apartment, detective Nic Costa rapidly comes to realise that there is much more to the accident than he first thought. It also becomes apparent that Malise\'s family -- mysterious and tragic daughter Mina, stoic wife Cecilia and troubled son Robert -- may be keeping vital information hidden.\r\n\r\nNic becomes obsessed with the case, intrigued by Mina\'s story which seems to be linked to the sixteenth-century real-life tragedy of a young Italian noblewoman, Beatrice Cenci.\r\n\r\nAs the investigation deepens, Rome\'s dark and seedy side is uncovered, revealing a tangle of deceit, treachery and corruption. Costa realises that the key to the truth lies with the Gabriels. Why are they so unwilling to co-operate, and who, or what, is the reason for their silence? <em>The ninth novel in the Costa series is available from Macmillan in the UK and will be published by Delacorte in the US on April 26, 2011.</em>\r\n<blockquote>Intricately plotted and gorgeously written, THE FALLEN ANGEL weaves a spell that will entrap you until the final page. David Hewson\'s Rome is dark and tantalizing, seductive and dangerous, a place where present-day crimes ring with the echoes of history.\r\n\r\n<strong>Tess Gerritsen</strong>, author of THE KILLING PLACE\r\n\r\nHewson is one of our finest crime writers.  Absorbing, intelligent, and with a staggeringly vivid sense of place.  No author has ever brought Rome so alive for me -- nor made it seem so sinister.\r\n\r\n<strong>Peter James</strong>, author of the bestselling Roy Grace series</blockquote>\r\n<strong>Reviews</strong>\r\n\r\n<em>Publishers Weekly starred review (third in series)</em>\r\n\r\nNear the start of Hewson\'s accomplished ninth novel featuring Roman detective Nic Costa... an eccentric English scholar, Malise Gabriel, falls to his death from a balcony, and Nic finds the man\'s lovely 17-year-old daughter, Mina, kneeling over his body on the street. The neighborhoods of Rome offer satisfying texture, as does Roman history—in particular, the dramatic story of another daughter, Beatrice Cenci, who was executed centuries earlier for killing the father who molested her... once secrets begin to be revealed, especially about the Gabriel family, there\'s no stopping them. Readers will have a lot of fun peeling away the book\'s many layers, right down to the final, closing twist.\r\n\r\n<em>The Times</em>\r\n\r\nHewson presents an atmospheric portrait of a dark, corrupt Rome behind the jolly tourist façade, astutely mixing the historical and the present. This is the ninth in the Nic Costa series, and possibly the best.\r\n\r\n<em>Daily Express</em>\r\n\r\n<em>\r\n</em>\r\n\r\nBrowse David\'s gallery of research photos of Roman locations for <em>The Fallen Angel</em>, from the Cenci church in the ghetto to the Italian State Police Black Museum. And read more about <a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/2011/02/beatrice-cenci-the-true-story-tragedy-behind-the-fallen-angel/\">the background to the true story of Beatrice Cenci. </a>\r\n\r\n[gallery link=\"file\"]','The Fallen Angel','','inherit','open','open','','6602-revision-2','','','2011-03-08 17:58:12','2011-03-08 17:58:12','',6602,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/6602-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(7725,1,'2011-03-08 17:49:25','2011-03-08 17:49:25','That Costa bloke has just got his third coveted starred review from <em>Publishers Weekly</em> for <em>The Fallen Angel</em> which will be out in the US on April 26th. I do hope it doesn\'t go to his head. The others were for <em>The Lizard\'s Bite</em> and <em>The Garden of Evil.</em>\r\n\r\nFrom all of his to PW... thank you!\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Screen-shot-2011-03-08-at-17.34.59.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7714\" title=\"PW\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Screen-shot-2011-03-08-at-17.34.59.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"638\" height=\"268\" /></a>','The Fallen Angel gets a PW starred review','','inherit','open','open','','7713-revision-8','','','2011-03-08 17:49:25','2011-03-08 17:49:25','',7713,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7713-revision-8/',0,'revision','',0),(7726,1,'2011-03-05 21:00:17','2011-03-05 21:00:17','<h3>The ninth Nic Costa novel is here</h3><img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6616\" title=\"The Fallen Angel\" src=\"http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//wp-content/uploads/2011/01/fallen-angel-uk-small1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"297\" />\r\n\r\nWhen British academic Malise Gabriel falls to his death from a Rome apartment, detective Nic Costa rapidly comes to realise that there is much more to the accident than he first thought. It also becomes apparent that Malise\'s family -- mysterious and tragic daughter Mina, stoic wife Cecilia and troubled son Robert -- may be keeping vital information hidden.\r\n\r\nCosta becomes obsessed with the case, intrigued by Mina\'s story which seems to be linked to the sixteenth-century real-life tragedy of a young Italian noblewoman, Beatrice Cenci.\r\n\r\nAs the investigation deepens, Rome\'s dark and seedy side is uncovered, revealing a tangle of deceit, treachery and corruption. Costa realises that the key to the truth lies with the Gabriels. Why are they so unwilling to co-operate, and who, or what, is the reason for their silence? <em>The ninth novel in the Costa series is available from Macmillan in the UK and will be published by Delacorte in the US on April 26, 2011.</em>\r\n<blockquote>Intricately plotted and gorgeously written, THE FALLEN ANGEL weaves a spell that will entrap you until the final page. David Hewson\'s Rome is dark and tantalizing, seductive and dangerous, a place where present-day crimes ring with the echoes of history.\r\n\r\nTess Gerritsen, author of THE KILLING PLACE</blockquote>\r\n<a title=\"The Fallen Angel\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/books/the-nic-costa-series/the-fallen-angel/\">Read more about the new book and see some of David\'s research photos for the novel taken in Rome. </a>\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>A new Roman tale for download</strong>\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6426\" title=\"Dead Men\'s Socks\" src=\"http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//wp-content/uploads/2010/12/dead-mens-socks1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"176\" height=\"266\" />\r\n\r\nGianni Peroni is feeling at a loose end. Mooching around with no boss at hand he wanders into the Questura morgue and sees Teresa’s deputy staring at two newly-arrived corpses. One is the body of a wealthy psychiatrist recovered from the river, apparently after committing suicide. The second is that of a young Roma petty criminal, seemingly beaten to death in a different part of the city, perhaps as some gang vendetta.\r\n\r\nPeroni watches the pathologist start to work with the corpses and notices something extraordinary. Both are wearing odd socks. <em>Identical</em> odd socks.\r\n\r\nSo begins <em><a title=\"Dead Men’s Socks — a Roman short story\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/books/the-nic-costa-series/dead-mens-socks-a-roman-short-story/\">Dead Men\'s Socks</a>, </em>a brand new 10,000-word Rome short story featuring one of the series\' most popular characters. Out now with instant download as part of the new Pan Macmillan Short Reads initiative.\r\n\r\n<strong>Get </strong><strong><em>Dead Men’s Socks </em>for 99p now</strong>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dead-Mens-Socks-Short-Reads/dp/B004FV4RWC\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Kindle UK</strong></a> <a href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/gb/book/dead-mens-socks-short-reads/id409366072?mt=11\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>iTunes</strong></a> <strong> </strong><strong><a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Dead-Mens-Socks-Short-Reads/dp/B004FV4RWC\" target=\"_blank\">Kindle non-UK </a>(including US sales)</strong>','The Fallen Angel — the ninth Costa novel','','inherit','open','open','','6622-revision-14','','','2011-03-05 21:00:17','2011-03-05 21:00:17','',6622,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/6622-revision-14/',0,'revision','',0),(7727,1,'2011-03-08 17:59:08','2011-03-08 17:59:08','<blockquote>The unseen girl was screaming again, at the top of her voice. There was real agony and fear in her cries, not the drunkenness and violence he\'d come to recognise over the years. He could see his concern reflected in Agata\'s shocked features... Costa ran across the riverside road and down towards the tortuous web of lanes and alleys that meandered in every direction out from the ghetto like a tangle of veins an arteries wound around the human heart...</blockquote>\r\n<img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6616\" title=\"The Fallen Angel\" src=\"http://vir.liquidweb.com/~davidhe4/davidhewson.com//wp-content/uploads/2011/01/fallen-angel-uk-small1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"362\" />When British academic Malise Gabriel falls to his death from a Rome apartment, detective Nic Costa rapidly comes to realise that there is much more to the accident than he first thought. It also becomes apparent that Malise\'s family -- mysterious and tragic daughter Mina, stoic wife Cecilia and troubled son Robert -- may be keeping vital information hidden.\r\n\r\nNic becomes obsessed with the case, intrigued by Mina\'s story which seems to be linked to the sixteenth-century real-life tragedy of a young Italian noblewoman, Beatrice Cenci.\r\n\r\nAs the investigation deepens, Rome\'s dark and seedy side is uncovered, revealing a tangle of deceit, treachery and corruption. Costa realises that the key to the truth lies with the Gabriels. Why are they so unwilling to co-operate, and who, or what, is the reason for their silence? <em>The ninth novel in the Costa series is available from Macmillan in the UK and will be published by Delacorte in the US on April 26, 2011.</em>\r\n<blockquote>Intricately plotted and gorgeously written, THE FALLEN ANGEL weaves a spell that will entrap you until the final page. David Hewson\'s Rome is dark and tantalizing, seductive and dangerous, a place where present-day crimes ring with the echoes of history.\r\n\r\n<strong>Tess Gerritsen</strong>, author of THE KILLING PLACE\r\n\r\nHewson is one of our finest crime writers.  Absorbing, intelligent, and with a staggeringly vivid sense of place.  No author has ever brought Rome so alive for me -- nor made it seem so sinister.\r\n\r\n<strong>Peter James</strong>, author of the bestselling Roy Grace series</blockquote>\r\n<strong>Reviews</strong>\r\n\r\n<em>Publishers Weekly starred review (third in series)</em>\r\n\r\nNear the start of Hewson\'s accomplished ninth novel featuring Roman detective Nic Costa... an eccentric English scholar, Malise Gabriel, falls to his death from a balcony, and Nic finds the man\'s lovely 17-year-old daughter, Mina, kneeling over his body on the street. The neighborhoods of Rome offer satisfying texture, as does Roman history—in particular, the dramatic story of another daughter, Beatrice Cenci, who was executed centuries earlier for killing the father who molested her... once secrets begin to be revealed, especially about the Gabriel family, there\'s no stopping them. Readers will have a lot of fun peeling away the book\'s many layers, right down to the final, closing twist.\r\n\r\n<em>The Times</em>\r\n\r\nHewson presents an atmospheric portrait of a dark, corrupt Rome behind the jolly tourist façade, astutely mixing the historical and the present. This is the ninth in the Nic Costa series, and possibly the best.\r\n\r\n<em>Daily Express</em>\r\n\r\nThis latest novel in David Hewson’s Italian-set crime sequence is as vivid and engaging as ever. His Roman copper, the unshakeable Nic Costa, is the perfect guide to one of the most atmospherically rendered cities in current crime fiction. Reading The Fallen Angel might have you planning your own trip to Rome.\r\n\r\nA variety of British and American novelists have set their books in Italy, notably Donna Leon and the late Michael Dibdin, whose Zen books have recently enjoyed TV adaptations. Hewson is ahead of the pack in this country-hopping band, mainly because his ambitions clearly stretch beyond the parameters of standard crime fiction.\r\n\r\n<strong>Photos</strong>\r\n\r\nBrowse David\'s gallery of research photos of Roman locations for <em>The Fallen Angel</em>, from the Cenci church in the ghetto to the Italian State Police Black Museum. And read more about <a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/2011/02/beatrice-cenci-the-true-story-tragedy-behind-the-fallen-angel/\">the background to the true story of Beatrice Cenci.</a>\r\n\r\n[gallery link=\"file\"]','The Fallen Angel','','inherit','open','open','','6602-revision-3','','','2011-03-08 17:59:08','2011-03-08 17:59:08','',6602,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/6602-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(7728,1,'2011-03-11 10:22:26','2011-03-11 10:22:26','I was quoted yesterday <a href=\"http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/mar/10/authors-book-piracy-cost\" target=\"_blank\">in a Guardian article</a> on book theft (aka \'piracy\' or if you really want to stretch your credibility \'file sharing\'... sigh). This has generated lots of interesting comments on the Guardian site, and a lively debate on Twitter.\n\nThe book thieves are trotting out the same limited arguments... it\'s because ebooks are more expensive than print ones (no they\'re not), it\'s because I hate big business publishers (as if they\'re the only ones who lose), it\'s not really stealing (but yes actually, it is).\n\nHere\'s one interesting thing that came from an eagle-eyed Twitter user (I would give her credit here but I don\'t know if she\'d want her name on the site): a report by the US International Intellectual Property Alliance to the US Trade Representative. It\'s incredibly long and detailed, the full document below if you want to read it. But here\'s something from page seventeen, one more reason why we should call this business by its real name -- stealing -- not pretend we\'re dealing with Johnny Depp in mascara.\n\nIt is real crime and it involves real criminals. The quotes here are old and primarily refer to DVDs. But is it such a stretch of the imagination to think the new \'pay us a subscription and get all the free books, music and software you want\' sites aren\'t part of the same game? Criminals follow trends too. The torrents are their new marketplaces, and even harder to police than physical shipments of ripped-off movies.\n\nHere\'s what IIPA have to say...\n\n<!-- p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px \'Arial Narrow\'} span.s1 {font: 7.0px \'Arial Narrow\'} -->\n<blockquote>Because of the immense profits that can be garnered by producing pirate optical disc products, this illegal business has been taken over in many countries by organized crime syndicates, making it even more difficult for local authorities to combat the problem. These criminal syndicates are highly organized, are linked across national boundaries, and have powerful friends within governments. They control large amounts of capital, and exploit complex distribution networks.\n\nThe kinds of large-scale piracy operations run by syndicates are a global threat, as the lucrative funds from piracy fund other illegal activities, like drug trafficking, gun running and even terrorism. Some of these syndicates operate worldwide. For example, syndicates with optical disc production facilities in Southeast Asia work with partners in South America to conduct a thriving trans-Pacific trade in pirate music CDs, entertainment software, and other optical disc products. These criminal networks are highly sophisticated and are becoming increasingly dangerous to deal with. Starting in 2003, many syndicates began moving their illegal trade into local CD-R and DVD-R “burning” and to the Internet in response to improved local enforcement against factory pirate production.\n\nIn an October 2005 study by MPA, it was reported that the estimated criminal revenue in 2004 for IPR theft was $512 billion, while for drug trafficking it was $322 billion.6 The same study also demonstrated that the mark-up for DVD piracy is higher than that for cocaine and heroine, with the risk of getting caught and receiving deterrent punishment significantly less.7 A March 2009 study by the RAND Corporation further explored the linkages between organized crime and film piracy detailing 14 case studies of film piracy, providing compelling evidence of a broad, geographically dispersed and continuing connection between piracy and organized crime. As well as documenting cases in North America and Europe, the report outlines the involvement of organized crime with film piracy in South America, Russia and many parts of Asia.</blockquote>\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/USTR-2010-0003-0287.1.pdf\">IIPA report</a>','The criminals behind intellectual property theft','','publish','open','open','','the-criminals-behind-intellectual-property-theft','','','2011-03-11 11:29:52','2011-03-11 11:29:52','',0,'http://davidhewson.com/?p=7728',0,'post','',2),(7729,1,'2011-03-11 10:16:50','2011-03-11 10:16:50','I was quoted yesterday <a href=\"http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/mar/10/authors-book-piracy-cost\" target=\"_blank\">in an interesting Guardian article</a> on book theft (aka \'piracy\' or if you really want to stretch your credibility \'file sharing\'... sigh). This has generated lots of interesting comments on the Guardian site, and a lively debate on Twitter.\n\nInteresting to see the book thieves trotting out the same limited arguments... it\'s because ebooks are more expensive than print ones (no they\'re not), it\'s because I hate big business publishers (as if they\'re the only ones who lose), it\'s not really stealing (but yes actually, it is).\n\nHere\'s one interesting thing that came from an eagle-eyed Twitter user (I would give her credit here but I don\'t know if she\'d want her name on the site): a report by the US International Intellectual Property Alliance to the US Trade Representative. It\'s incredibly long and detailed, the full document below if you want to read it. But here\'s something from page seventeen, one more reason why we should call this business by its real name -- criminal theft -- not pretend we\'re dealing with Johnny Depp in mascara.\n\nIt is real crime and it involves real criminals. The quotes here are old and primarily refer to DVDs. But is it such a stretch of the imagination to think the new \'pay us a subscription and get all the free books, music and software you want\' sites aren\'t part of the same game?\n\nHere\'s what IIPA have to say (page 17)...\n\n<!-- p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px \'Arial Narrow\'} span.s1 {font: 7.0px \'Arial Narrow\'} -->Because of the immense profits that can be garnered by producing pirate optical disc products, this illegal business has been taken over in many countries by organized crime syndicates, making it even more difficult for local authorities to combat the problem. These criminal syndicates are highly organized, are linked across national boundaries, and have powerful friends within governments. They control large amounts of capital, and exploit complex distribution networks.\n\nThe kinds of large-scale piracy operations run by syndicates are a global threat, as the lucrative funds from piracy fund other illegal activities, like drug trafficking, gun running and even terrorism. Some of these syndicates operate worldwide. For example, syndicates with optical disc production facilities in Southeast Asia work with partners in South America to conduct a thriving trans-Pacific trade in pirate music CDs, entertainment software, and other optical disc products. These criminal networks are highly sophisticated and are becoming increasingly dangerous to deal with. Starting in 2003, many syndicates began moving their illegal trade into local CD-R and DVD-R “burning” and to the Internet in response to improved local enforcement against factory pirate production.\n\nIn an October 2005 study by MPA, it was reported that the estimated criminal revenue in 2004 for IPR theft was $512 billion, while for drug trafficking it was $322 billion.6 The same study also demonstrated that the mark-up for DVD piracy is higher than that for cocaine and heroine, with the risk of getting caught and receiving deterrent punishment significantly less.7 A March 2009 study by the RAND Corporation further explored the linkages between organized crime and film piracy detailing 14 case studies of film piracy, providing compelling evidence of a broad, geographically dispersed and continuing connection between piracy and organized crime. As well as documenting cases in North America and Europe, the report outlines the involvement of organized crime with film piracy in South America, Russia and many parts of Asia.8','The criminals behind intellectual property theft','','inherit','open','open','','7728-revision','','','2011-03-11 10:16:50','2011-03-11 10:16:50','',7728,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7728-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(7730,1,'2011-03-11 10:17:19','2011-03-11 10:17:19','I was quoted yesterday <a href=\"http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/mar/10/authors-book-piracy-cost\" target=\"_blank\">in an interesting Guardian article</a> on book theft (aka \'piracy\' or if you really want to stretch your credibility \'file sharing\'... sigh). This has generated lots of interesting comments on the Guardian site, and a lively debate on Twitter.\r\n\r\nInteresting to see the book thieves trotting out the same limited arguments... it\'s because ebooks are more expensive than print ones (no they\'re not), it\'s because I hate big business publishers (as if they\'re the only ones who lose), it\'s not really stealing (but yes actually, it is).\r\n\r\nHere\'s one interesting thing that came from an eagle-eyed Twitter user (I would give her credit here but I don\'t know if she\'d want her name on the site): a report by the US International Intellectual Property Alliance to the US Trade Representative. It\'s incredibly long and detailed, the full document below if you want to read it. But here\'s something from page seventeen, one more reason why we should call this business by its real name -- criminal theft -- not pretend we\'re dealing with Johnny Depp in mascara.\r\n\r\nIt is real crime and it involves real criminals. The quotes here are old and primarily refer to DVDs. But is it such a stretch of the imagination to think the new \'pay us a subscription and get all the free books, music and software you want\' sites aren\'t part of the same game?\r\n\r\nHere\'s what IIPA have to say (page 17)...\r\n\r\n<!-- p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px \'Arial Narrow\'} span.s1 {font: 7.0px \'Arial Narrow\'} -->\r\n<blockquote>Because of the immense profits that can be garnered by producing pirate optical disc products, this illegal business has been taken over in many countries by organized crime syndicates, making it even more difficult for local authorities to combat the problem. These criminal syndicates are highly organized, are linked across national boundaries, and have powerful friends within governments. They control large amounts of capital, and exploit complex distribution networks.\r\n\r\nThe kinds of large-scale piracy operations run by syndicates are a global threat, as the lucrative funds from piracy fund other illegal activities, like drug trafficking, gun running and even terrorism. Some of these syndicates operate worldwide. For example, syndicates with optical disc production facilities in Southeast Asia work with partners in South America to conduct a thriving trans-Pacific trade in pirate music CDs, entertainment software, and other optical disc products. These criminal networks are highly sophisticated and are becoming increasingly dangerous to deal with. Starting in 2003, many syndicates began moving their illegal trade into local CD-R and DVD-R “burning” and to the Internet in response to improved local enforcement against factory pirate production.\r\n\r\nIn an October 2005 study by MPA, it was reported that the estimated criminal revenue in 2004 for IPR theft was $512 billion, while for drug trafficking it was $322 billion.6 The same study also demonstrated that the mark-up for DVD piracy is higher than that for cocaine and heroine, with the risk of getting caught and receiving deterrent punishment significantly less.7 A March 2009 study by the RAND Corporation further explored the linkages between organized crime and film piracy detailing 14 case studies of film piracy, providing compelling evidence of a broad, geographically dispersed and continuing connection between piracy and organized crime. As well as documenting cases in North America and Europe, the report outlines the involvement of organized crime with film piracy in South America, Russia and many parts of Asia.</blockquote>','The criminals behind intellectual property theft','','inherit','open','open','','7728-revision-2','','','2011-03-11 10:17:19','2011-03-11 10:17:19','',7728,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7728-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(7731,1,'2011-03-11 10:20:04','2011-03-11 10:20:04','','IPPA report','','inherit','open','open','','ustr-2010-0003-0287-1','','','2011-03-11 10:20:04','2011-03-11 10:20:04','',7728,'http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/USTR-2010-0003-0287.1.pdf',0,'attachment','application/pdf',0),(7732,1,'2011-03-11 10:17:27','2011-03-11 10:17:27','I was quoted yesterday <a href=\"http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/mar/10/authors-book-piracy-cost\" target=\"_blank\">in an interesting Guardian article</a> on book theft (aka \'piracy\' or if you really want to stretch your credibility \'file sharing\'... sigh). This has generated lots of interesting comments on the Guardian site, and a lively debate on Twitter.\r\n\r\nInteresting to see the book thieves trotting out the same limited arguments... it\'s because ebooks are more expensive than print ones (no they\'re not), it\'s because I hate big business publishers (as if they\'re the only ones who lose), it\'s not really stealing (but yes actually, it is).\r\n\r\nHere\'s one interesting thing that came from an eagle-eyed Twitter user (I would give her credit here but I don\'t know if she\'d want her name on the site): a report by the US International Intellectual Property Alliance to the US Trade Representative. It\'s incredibly long and detailed, the full document below if you want to read it. But here\'s something from page seventeen, one more reason why we should call this business by its real name -- criminal theft -- not pretend we\'re dealing with Johnny Depp in mascara.\r\n\r\nIt is real crime and it involves real criminals. The quotes here are old and primarily refer to DVDs. But is it such a stretch of the imagination to think the new \'pay us a subscription and get all the free books, music and software you want\' sites aren\'t part of the same game?\r\n\r\nHere\'s what IIPA have to say (page 17)...\r\n\r\n<!-- p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px \'Arial Narrow\'} span.s1 {font: 7.0px \'Arial Narrow\'} -->\r\n<blockquote>Because of the immense profits that can be garnered by producing pirate optical disc products, this illegal business has been taken over in many countries by organized crime syndicates, making it even more difficult for local authorities to combat the problem. These criminal syndicates are highly organized, are linked across national boundaries, and have powerful friends within governments. They control large amounts of capital, and exploit complex distribution networks.\r\n\r\nThe kinds of large-scale piracy operations run by syndicates are a global threat, as the lucrative funds from piracy fund other illegal activities, like drug trafficking, gun running and even terrorism. Some of these syndicates operate worldwide. For example, syndicates with optical disc production facilities in Southeast Asia work with partners in South America to conduct a thriving trans-Pacific trade in pirate music CDs, entertainment software, and other optical disc products. These criminal networks are highly sophisticated and are becoming increasingly dangerous to deal with. Starting in 2003, many syndicates began moving their illegal trade into local CD-R and DVD-R “burning” and to the Internet in response to improved local enforcement against factory pirate production.\r\n\r\nIn an October 2005 study by MPA, it was reported that the estimated criminal revenue in 2004 for IPR theft was $512 billion, while for drug trafficking it was $322 billion.6 The same study also demonstrated that the mark-up for DVD piracy is higher than that for cocaine and heroine, with the risk of getting caught and receiving deterrent punishment significantly less.7 A March 2009 study by the RAND Corporation further explored the linkages between organized crime and film piracy detailing 14 case studies of film piracy, providing compelling evidence of a broad, geographically dispersed and continuing connection between piracy and organized crime. As well as documenting cases in North America and Europe, the report outlines the involvement of organized crime with film piracy in South America, Russia and many parts of Asia.</blockquote>','The criminals behind intellectual property theft','','inherit','open','open','','7728-revision-3','','','2011-03-11 10:17:27','2011-03-11 10:17:27','',7728,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7728-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(7736,1,'2011-03-11 13:37:24','2011-03-11 13:37:24','<em><a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/steal.jpg\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-7742 alignright\" title=\"steal\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/steal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" /></a>This article can be copied and reused anywhere without prior permission.</em>\n\nThe world is embracing the ebook at an astonishing pace. Most of us who write for a living welcome this. It means new opportunities for authors and readers alike. It means you can carry lots of books in a single, light device. With some systems you can do clever things such as sharing comments and even lending books to your friends.\n\nEveryone who works in publishing -- as writers, editors, designers, in sales and marketing -- wants you to make the most of that new gadget, and to understand how it fits into the world of books. So this is an attempt to set down a few facts about this fast-changing medium.\n\n<strong>Price</strong>\n\nEbook prices have been in flux, mainly due to the speed at which ereaders have taken off. There was a time when ebooks were sometimes more expensive than their print equivalent. This rarely happens now. If you look on Amazon you\'ll usually find they are slightly lower in price than the print book. Prices still usually follow the cycle of paper publishing. So the original ebook price will be based on the hardback cost, and will fall when the paperback comes out. To use my own work as an example, my current hardback, <em>The Fallen Angel,</em> costs £7.99 at Amazon UK and £7.19 for the Kindle edition. My current paperback, <em>The Blue Demon, </em>lists at £4.19 while the ebook is £3.98. So you save money and get the added convenience of the ebook, but don\'t, of course, have that nice book to put on the shelf. The choice is yours.\n\n<strong>Having a look before you buy</strong>\n\nYou don\'t need to commit to an ebook before buying it. In fact you can read a substantial amount of it for free, much more than you\'d get by flicking through a paper book in a shop. All main ebook systems come with a sample function. If you\'re uncertain, use it -- you may be surprised how big a chunk of the book you get (I know I was).\n\n<strong>Free out of print books</strong>\n\nBooks have a limited copyright life, one determined by different sets of laws around the world. Lots of well-known works are now out of copyright. So you can download editions of Shakespeare, Conan Doyle, Jules Verne and many other authors for nothing. A great site to find these authors is <a href=\"http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page\" target=\"_blank\">Project Gutenberg</a> which has been digitising out of print books for some time. You will also find inexpensive editions of classic books on Amazon and other stores. Often these are based on Gutenberg texts so you may want to use the original for free.\n\n<strong>Unauthorised editions</strong>\n\nThe music industry was devastated by the proliferation of piracy of MP3 files shared freely across the internet. There are similar fears that the book business will be impacted in the same way by the growing amount of stolen copyright modern books now being placed online, often as money-making ventures for the criminals behind this trade. If you\'re thinking of getting some \'free\' books this way please think again. People who love books don\'t steal them, because they know that in the end that practice will damage the livelihoods of people working in publishing, and their continuing ability to be able to afford to write. You could also find yourself the victim of fraud and theft too.\n\nHere are some fallacies about ebook theft you may encounter.\n\n<em>It\'s not really stealing.</em>\n\nPeople who obtain illicit books on the internet try to justify their actions in many different ways. They call themselves \'pirates\' or \'file sharers\'. They will say, \'But I wouldn\'t have bought the book if I had to pay for it.\' Or, \'If I like the book I got for free it makes it more likely I\'ll tell my friends and buy the next one.\' Don\'t fall for these excuses. People who rip off ebooks are taking something of value without paying for it. That\'s stealing.\n\n<em>It\'s not a big problem</em>\n\nAlmost every commercial ebook now published is available in ripped-off form, and many popular audiobooks. <a title=\"Another insight into how book thieves work\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/2011/02/another-insight-into-how-book-thieves-work/\">One \'file sharing\' site alone</a> has more than 300,000 registered users, who frequently share stolen books among each other and give themselves \'rewards\' for new titles.\n\n<em>Authors don\'t need the money anyway.</em>\n\nSome of us don\'t. But most authors don\'t earn much at all. For many writing is a second job while something else pays the bills. Book theft deprives them and the employees of their publishing house of income. Musicians who lost their sales income through mp3 ripoffs could try to replace it with concerts and merchandise sales. Authors have none of those opportunities. Their principal source of income comes from the sale of a book.\n\n<em>If you just made the books cheaper I\'d buy instead of stealing.</em>\n\nHow cheap does a book have to be? As we\'ve already said, ebooks are, in most instances, cheaper than their paper equivalent. In many large markets book prices have fallen considerably over the last decade. A mainstream ebook can now be had for £3 to £4 in the UK, which is cheaper than an equivalent book cost twenty years ago.\n\n<em>If you object to book piracy you should also object to libraries and second hand book sales.</em>\n\nLibraries buy books, and in many countries pay a public lending right to authors, a small sum based on the number of times a title is lent. Second hand book sales are of one copy alone. Digital books can be \'duplicated\' a million times at no cost. A second hand sale on eBay is not the same as uploading a file to a torrent site that serves hundreds of thousands of users.\n\n<em>Book torrent sites are run by book fans who are just giving out free advertising for authors. You should be grateful instead of moaning.</em>\n\n<em>Not so. </em>As a<a title=\"The criminals behind intellectual property theft\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/the-criminals-behind-intellectual-property-theft/\"> report from the US International Intellectual Property Alliance</a> details, media piracy is big business, controlled by organised crime rings in many parts of the world. There are vast profits to be made here as intellectual property moves into the digital medium and can be hidden around the world, then served up from sites based in countries without enforceable copyright laws. This is about money: getting a subscription out of you in return for access to all that stolen material. Do you want to give your credit card details to a criminal gang? Then sign up for one of those torrent sites.\n\n<em>Why don\'t you cut out the publishers altogether and sell your books direct over the internet yourself, at a lower price?</em>\n\nPrice is very obviously not the issue here. Some authors are going the direct route, especially with their backlist titles. But it\'s a fallacy to think that a book goes from manuscript to finished title without any intermediate processes. Professional publishing involves several sets of editing and creative input that help an author produce a better book. Even if a writer wants to sell direct, a wise one will still factor in the cost of external editing, marketing and design. Just taking out the printing process and the publisher does not change the fundamental economics of the business. Self published authors are just as likely to be victims of ebook theft as anyone else.\n\n<strong>In short...</strong>\n\nThe digital book revolution is a great thing. It makes it easier and cheaper to read and buy books than ever before. You can try before you buy and you can still go back to paper when you want to. But the phenomenal growth of digital book theft is a threat to the modest income many writers rely on. There are individuals out there who rip off copyright work -- books, software, movies and music -- out of some kind of warped principle. They don\'t want to pay for other people\'s intellectual property and never will.\n\nAuthors are never going to win that battle. So we\'re relying on the vast majority of honest book buyers to support the writing community. Use the established sites. Download samples. See what you like. And then, please, buy it, don\'t steal it.','Got a new ereader? Some things you ought to know...','','publish','open','open','','got-a-new-ereader-some-things-you-ought-to-know','','','2011-03-15 06:43:09','2011-03-15 06:43:09','',0,'http://davidhewson.com/?p=7736',0,'post','',27),(7733,1,'2011-03-11 10:23:33','2011-03-11 10:23:33','I was quoted yesterday <a href=\"http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/mar/10/authors-book-piracy-cost\" target=\"_blank\">in an interesting Guardian article</a> on book theft (aka \'piracy\' or if you really want to stretch your credibility \'file sharing\'... sigh). This has generated lots of interesting comments on the Guardian site, and a lively debate on Twitter.\n\nInteresting to see the book thieves trotting out the same limited arguments... it\'s because ebooks are more expensive than print ones (no they\'re not), it\'s because I hate big business publishers (as if they\'re the only ones who lose), it\'s not really stealing (but yes actually, it is).\n\nHere\'s one interesting thing that came from an eagle-eyed Twitter user (I would give her credit here but I don\'t know if she\'d want her name on the site): a report by the US International Intellectual Property Alliance to the US Trade Representative. It\'s incredibly long and detailed, the full document below if you want to read it. But here\'s something from page seventeen, one more reason why we should call this business by its real name -- stealing -- not pretend we\'re dealing with Johnny Depp in mascara.\n\nIt is real crime and it involves real criminals. The quotes here are old and primarily refer to DVDs. But is it such a stretch of the imagination to think the new \'pay us a subscription and get all the free books, music and software you want\' sites aren\'t part of the same game? Criminals follow trends too. The torrents are their new marketplaces, and even harder to police than physical shipments of ripped-off movies.\n\nHere\'s what IIPA have to say...\n\n<!-- p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px \'Arial Narrow\'} span.s1 {font: 7.0px \'Arial Narrow\'} -->\n<blockquote>Because of the immense profits that can be garnered by producing pirate optical disc products, this illegal business has been taken over in many countries by organized crime syndicates, making it even more difficult for local authorities to combat the problem. These criminal syndicates are highly organized, are linked across national boundaries, and have powerful friends within governments. They control large amounts of capital, and exploit complex distribution networks.\n\nThe kinds of large-scale piracy operations run by syndicates are a global threat, as the lucrative funds from piracy fund other illegal activities, like drug trafficking, gun running and even terrorism. Some of these syndicates operate worldwide. For example, syndicates with optical disc production facilities in Southeast Asia work with partners in South America to conduct a thriving trans-Pacific trade in pirate music CDs, entertainment software, and other optical disc products. These criminal networks are highly sophisticated and are becoming increasingly dangerous to deal with. Starting in 2003, many syndicates began moving their illegal trade into local CD-R and DVD-R “burning” and to the Internet in response to improved local enforcement against factory pirate production.\n\nIn an October 2005 study by MPA, it was reported that the estimated criminal revenue in 2004 for IPR theft was $512 billion, while for drug trafficking it was $322 billion.6 The same study also demonstrated that the mark-up for DVD piracy is higher than that for cocaine and heroine, with the risk of getting caught and receiving deterrent punishment significantly less.7 A March 2009 study by the RAND Corporation further explored the linkages between organized crime and film piracy detailing 14 case studies of film piracy, providing compelling evidence of a broad, geographically dispersed and continuing connection between piracy and organized crime. As well as documenting cases in North America and Europe, the report outlines the involvement of organized crime with film piracy in South America, Russia and many parts of Asia.</blockquote>\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/USTR-2010-0003-0287.1.pdf\">IIPA report</a>','The criminals behind intellectual property theft','','inherit','open','open','','7728-autosave','','','2011-03-11 10:23:33','2011-03-11 10:23:33','',7728,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7728-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(7734,1,'2011-03-11 10:22:26','2011-03-11 10:22:26','I was quoted yesterday <a href=\"http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/mar/10/authors-book-piracy-cost\" target=\"_blank\">in an interesting Guardian article</a> on book theft (aka \'piracy\' or if you really want to stretch your credibility \'file sharing\'... sigh). This has generated lots of interesting comments on the Guardian site, and a lively debate on Twitter.\r\n\r\nInteresting to see the book thieves trotting out the same limited arguments... it\'s because ebooks are more expensive than print ones (no they\'re not), it\'s because I hate big business publishers (as if they\'re the only ones who lose), it\'s not really stealing (but yes actually, it is).\r\n\r\nHere\'s one interesting thing that came from an eagle-eyed Twitter user (I would give her credit here but I don\'t know if she\'d want her name on the site): a report by the US International Intellectual Property Alliance to the US Trade Representative. It\'s incredibly long and detailed, the full document below if you want to read it. But here\'s something from page seventeen, one more reason why we should call this business by its real name -- stealing -- not pretend we\'re dealing with Johnny Depp in mascara.\r\n\r\nIt is real crime and it involves real criminals. The quotes here are old and primarily refer to DVDs. But is it such a stretch of the imagination to think the new \'pay us a subscription and get all the free books, music and software you want\' sites aren\'t part of the same game? Criminals follow trends too. The torrents are their new marketplaces, and even harder to police than physical shipments of ripped-off movies.\r\n\r\nHere\'s what IIPA have to say...\r\n\r\n<!-- p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px \'Arial Narrow\'} span.s1 {font: 7.0px \'Arial Narrow\'} -->\r\n<blockquote>Because of the immense profits that can be garnered by producing pirate optical disc products, this illegal business has been taken over in many countries by organized crime syndicates, making it even more difficult for local authorities to combat the problem. These criminal syndicates are highly organized, are linked across national boundaries, and have powerful friends within governments. They control large amounts of capital, and exploit complex distribution networks.\r\n\r\nThe kinds of large-scale piracy operations run by syndicates are a global threat, as the lucrative funds from piracy fund other illegal activities, like drug trafficking, gun running and even terrorism. Some of these syndicates operate worldwide. For example, syndicates with optical disc production facilities in Southeast Asia work with partners in South America to conduct a thriving trans-Pacific trade in pirate music CDs, entertainment software, and other optical disc products. These criminal networks are highly sophisticated and are becoming increasingly dangerous to deal with. Starting in 2003, many syndicates began moving their illegal trade into local CD-R and DVD-R “burning” and to the Internet in response to improved local enforcement against factory pirate production.\r\n\r\nIn an October 2005 study by MPA, it was reported that the estimated criminal revenue in 2004 for IPR theft was $512 billion, while for drug trafficking it was $322 billion.6 The same study also demonstrated that the mark-up for DVD piracy is higher than that for cocaine and heroine, with the risk of getting caught and receiving deterrent punishment significantly less.7 A March 2009 study by the RAND Corporation further explored the linkages between organized crime and film piracy detailing 14 case studies of film piracy, providing compelling evidence of a broad, geographically dispersed and continuing connection between piracy and organized crime. As well as documenting cases in North America and Europe, the report outlines the involvement of organized crime with film piracy in South America, Russia and many parts of Asia.</blockquote>\r\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/USTR-2010-0003-0287.1.pdf\">IIPA report</a>','The criminals behind intellectual property theft','','inherit','open','open','','7728-revision-4','','','2011-03-11 10:22:26','2011-03-11 10:22:26','',7728,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7728-revision-4/',0,'revision','',0),(7735,1,'2011-03-11 11:28:36','2011-03-11 11:28:36','I was quoted yesterday <a href=\"http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/mar/10/authors-book-piracy-cost\" target=\"_blank\">in an interesting Guardian article</a> on book theft (aka \'piracy\' or if you really want to stretch your credibility \'file sharing\'... sigh). This has generated lots of interesting comments on the Guardian site, and a lively debate on Twitter.\n\nThe book thieves are still trotting out the same limited arguments... it\'s because ebooks are more expensive than print ones (no they\'re not), it\'s because I hate big business publishers (as if they\'re the only ones who lose), it\'s not really stealing (but yes actually, it is).\n\nHere\'s one thing that came from an eagle-eyed Twitter user (I would give her credit here but I don\'t know if she\'d want her name on the site): a report by the US International Intellectual Property Alliance to the US Trade Representative. It\'s incredibly long and detailed, the full document below if you want to read it. But here\'s something from page seventeen, one more reason why we should call this business by its real name -- stealing -- not pretend we\'re dealing with Johnny Depp in mascara.\n\nIt is real crime and it involves real criminals. The quotes here are old and primarily refer to DVDs. But is it such a stretch of the imagination to think the new \'pay us a subscription and get all the free books, music and software you want\' sites aren\'t part of the same game? Criminals follow trends too. The torrents are their new marketplaces, and even harder to police than physical shipments of ripped-off movies.\n\nHere\'s what IIPA have to say...\n\n<!-- p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px \'Arial Narrow\'} span.s1 {font: 7.0px \'Arial Narrow\'} -->\n<blockquote>Because of the immense profits that can be garnered by producing pirate optical disc products, this illegal business has been taken over in many countries by organized crime syndicates, making it even more difficult for local authorities to combat the problem. These criminal syndicates are highly organized, are linked across national boundaries, and have powerful friends within governments. They control large amounts of capital, and exploit complex distribution networks.\n\nThe kinds of large-scale piracy operations run by syndicates are a global threat, as the lucrative funds from piracy fund other illegal activities, like drug trafficking, gun running and even terrorism. Some of these syndicates operate worldwide. For example, syndicates with optical disc production facilities in Southeast Asia work with partners in South America to conduct a thriving trans-Pacific trade in pirate music CDs, entertainment software, and other optical disc products. These criminal networks are highly sophisticated and are becoming increasingly dangerous to deal with. Starting in 2003, many syndicates began moving their illegal trade into local CD-R and DVD-R “burning” and to the Internet in response to improved local enforcement against factory pirate production.\n\nIn an October 2005 study by MPA, it was reported that the estimated criminal revenue in 2004 for IPR theft was $512 billion, while for drug trafficking it was $322 billion.6 The same study also demonstrated that the mark-up for DVD piracy is higher than that for cocaine and heroine, with the risk of getting caught and receiving deterrent punishment significantly less.7 A March 2009 study by the RAND Corporation further explored the linkages between organized crime and film piracy detailing 14 case studies of film piracy, providing compelling evidence of a broad, geographically dispersed and continuing connection between piracy and organized crime. As well as documenting cases in North America and Europe, the report outlines the involvement of organized crime with film piracy in South America, Russia and many parts of Asia.</blockquote>\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/USTR-2010-0003-0287.1.pdf\">IIPA report</a>','The criminals behind intellectual property theft','','inherit','open','open','','7728-revision-5','','','2011-03-11 11:28:36','2011-03-11 11:28:36','',7728,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7728-revision-5/',0,'revision','',0),(7737,1,'2011-03-11 12:14:56','2011-03-11 12:14:56','','Got a new ereader? Some things you ought to know...','','inherit','open','open','','7736-revision','','','2011-03-11 12:14:56','2011-03-11 12:14:56','',7736,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7736-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(7738,1,'2011-03-11 12:25:17','2011-03-11 12:25:17','The world is embracing the ebook at an astonishing pace. Most of us who write for a living welcome this. It means new opportunities for authors and readers alike. It means you can carry lots of books in a single, light device. With some systems you can do clever things such as sharing comments and even lending books to your friends.\n\nEveryone who works in publishing -- as writers, editors, designers, in sales and marketing -- wants you to make the most of that new gadget, and to understand how it fits into the world of books. So this is an attempt to set down a few facts about this fast-changing medium.\n\n<strong>Price</strong>\n\nEbook prices have been in flux, mainly due to the speed at which ereaders have taken off. There was a time when ebooks were sometimes more expensive than their print equivalent. This rarely happens now. If you look on Amazon you\'ll usually find they are slightly lower in price than the print book. Prices still usually follow the cycle of paper publishing. So the original ebook price will be based on the hardback cost, and will fall when the paperback comes out. To use my own work as an example, my current hardback, <em>The Fallen Angel,</em> costs £7.99 at Amazon UK and £7.19 for the Kindle edition. My current paperback, <em>The Blue Demon, </em>lists at £4.19 while the paperback is £3.98. So you save money and get the added convenienc','Got a new ereader? Some things you ought to know...','','inherit','open','open','','7736-revision-2','','','2011-03-11 12:25:17','2011-03-11 12:25:17','',7736,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7736-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(7739,1,'2011-03-11 12:35:05','2011-03-11 12:35:05','<em>This article can be copied and reused anywhere without prior permission.</em>\n\nThe world is embracing the ebook at an astonishing pace. Most of us who write for a living welcome this. It means new opportunities for authors and readers alike. It means you can carry lots of books in a single, light device. With some systems you can do clever things such as sharing comments and even lending books to your friends.\n\nEveryone who works in publishing -- as writers, editors, designers, in sales and marketing -- wants you to make the most of that new gadget, and to understand how it fits into the world of books. So this is an attempt to set down a few facts about this fast-changing medium.\n\n<strong>Price</strong>\n\nEbook prices have been in flux, mainly due to the speed at which ereaders have taken off. There was a time when ebooks were sometimes more expensive than their print equivalent. This rarely happens now. If you look on Amazon you\'ll usually find they are slightly lower in price than the print book. Prices still usually follow the cycle of paper publishing. So the original ebook price will be based on the hardback cost, and will fall when the paperback comes out. To use my own work as an example, my current hardback, <em>The Fallen Angel,</em> costs £7.99 at Amazon UK and £7.19 for the Kindle edition. My current paperback, <em>The Blue Demon, </em>lists at £4.19 while the paperback is £3.98. So you save money and get the added convenience of the ebook, but don\'t, of course, have that nice book to put on the shelf. The choice is yours.\n\n<strong>Having a look before you buy</strong>\n\nYou don\'t need to commit to an ebook before buying it. In fact you can read a substantial amount of it for free, much more than you\'d get by flicking through a paper book in a shop. All main ebook systems come with a sample function. If you\'re uncertain, use it -- you may be surprised how big a chunk of the book you get (I know I was).\n\n<strong>Free out of print books</strong>\n\nBooks have a limited copyright life, one determined by different sets of laws around the world. Lots of well-known works are now out of copyright. So you can download editions of Shakespeare, Conan Doyle, Jules Verne and many other authors for nothing. A great site to find these authors is <a href=\"http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page\" target=\"_blank\">Project Gutenberg</a> which has been digitising out of print books for some time. You will also find inexpensive editions of classic books on Amazon and other stores. Often these are based on Gutenberg texts so you may want to use the original for free.\n\n<strong>Unauthorised editions</strong>\n\nThe music industry was devastated by the proliferation of piracy of MP3 files shared freely across the internet. There are similar fears that the book business will be impacted in the same way by the growing amount of stolen copyright modern books now being placed online, often as money-making ventures for the criminals behind this trade. If you\'re thinking of getting some \'free\' books this way please think again. People who love books don\'t steal them, because they know that in the end that practice will damage the livelihoods of people working in publishing, and their continuing ability to be able to afford to write. You could also','Got a new ereader? Some things you ought to know...','','inherit','open','open','','7736-revision-3','','','2011-03-11 12:35:05','2011-03-11 12:35:05','',7736,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7736-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(7740,1,'2011-03-11 12:45:31','2011-03-11 12:45:31','<em>This article can be copied and reused anywhere without prior permission.</em>\n\nThe world is embracing the ebook at an astonishing pace. Most of us who write for a living welcome this. It means new opportunities for authors and readers alike. It means you can carry lots of books in a single, light device. With some systems you can do clever things such as sharing comments and even lending books to your friends.\n\nEveryone who works in publishing -- as writers, editors, designers, in sales and marketing -- wants you to make the most of that new gadget, and to understand how it fits into the world of books. So this is an attempt to set down a few facts about this fast-changing medium.\n\n<strong>Price</strong>\n\nEbook prices have been in flux, mainly due to the speed at which ereaders have taken off. There was a time when ebooks were sometimes more expensive than their print equivalent. This rarely happens now. If you look on Amazon you\'ll usually find they are slightly lower in price than the print book. Prices still usually follow the cycle of paper publishing. So the original ebook price will be based on the hardback cost, and will fall when the paperback comes out. To use my own work as an example, my current hardback, <em>The Fallen Angel,</em> costs £7.99 at Amazon UK and £7.19 for the Kindle edition. My current paperback, <em>The Blue Demon, </em>lists at £4.19 while the paperback is £3.98. So you save money and get the added convenience of the ebook, but don\'t, of course, have that nice book to put on the shelf. The choice is yours.\n\n<strong>Having a look before you buy</strong>\n\nYou don\'t need to commit to an ebook before buying it. In fact you can read a substantial amount of it for free, much more than you\'d get by flicking through a paper book in a shop. All main ebook systems come with a sample function. If you\'re uncertain, use it -- you may be surprised how big a chunk of the book you get (I know I was).\n\n<strong>Free out of print books</strong>\n\nBooks have a limited copyright life, one determined by different sets of laws around the world. Lots of well-known works are now out of copyright. So you can download editions of Shakespeare, Conan Doyle, Jules Verne and many other authors for nothing. A great site to find these authors is <a href=\"http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page\" target=\"_blank\">Project Gutenberg</a> which has been digitising out of print books for some time. You will also find inexpensive editions of classic books on Amazon and other stores. Often these are based on Gutenberg texts so you may want to use the original for free.\n\n<strong>Unauthorised editions</strong>\n\nThe music industry was devastated by the proliferation of piracy of MP3 files shared freely across the internet. There are similar fears that the book business will be impacted in the same way by the growing amount of stolen copyright modern books now being placed online, often as money-making ventures for the criminals behind this trade. If you\'re thinking of getting some \'free\' books this way please think again. People who love books don\'t steal them, because they know that in the end that practice will damage the livelihoods of people working in publishing, and their continuing ability to be able to afford to write. You could also find yourself the victim of fraud and theft too.\n\nHere are some fallacies about ebook theft you may encounter.\n\n<em>It\'s not really stealing.</em>\n\nBook thieves try to justify this in many different ways. They call themselves \'pirates\' or \'file sharers\'. They will say, \'But I wouldn\'t have bought the book if I had to pay for it.\' Or, \'If I like the book I got for free it makes it more likely I\'ll tell my friends and buy the next one.\' Don\'t fall for these excuses. People who rip off ebooks are taking something of value without paying for it. That\'s theft.\n\n<em>It\'s not a big problem</em>\n\nAlmost every commercial ebook now published is available in ripped-off form, and many popular audiobooks. One \'file sharing\' site alone has more than 300,000\n\n<em>\n</em>','Got a new ereader? Some things you ought to know...','','inherit','open','open','','7736-revision-4','','','2011-03-11 12:45:31','2011-03-11 12:45:31','',7736,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7736-revision-4/',0,'revision','',0),(7741,1,'2011-03-11 12:47:14','2011-03-11 12:47:14','<em>This article can be copied and reused anywhere without prior permission.</em>\n\nThe world is embracing the ebook at an astonishing pace. Most of us who write for a living welcome this. It means new opportunities for authors and readers alike. It means you can carry lots of books in a single, light device. With some systems you can do clever things such as sharing comments and even lending books to your friends.\n\nEveryone who works in publishing -- as writers, editors, designers, in sales and marketing -- wants you to make the most of that new gadget, and to understand how it fits into the world of books. So this is an attempt to set down a few facts about this fast-changing medium.\n\n<strong>Price</strong>\n\nEbook prices have been in flux, mainly due to the speed at which ereaders have taken off. There was a time when ebooks were sometimes more expensive than their print equivalent. This rarely happens now. If you look on Amazon you\'ll usually find they are slightly lower in price than the print book. Prices still usually follow the cycle of paper publishing. So the original ebook price will be based on the hardback cost, and will fall when the paperback comes out. To use my own work as an example, my current hardback, <em>The Fallen Angel,</em> costs £7.99 at Amazon UK and £7.19 for the Kindle edition. My current paperback, <em>The Blue Demon, </em>lists at £4.19 while the paperback is £3.98. So you save money and get the added convenience of the ebook, but don\'t, of course, have that nice book to put on the shelf. The choice is yours.\n\n<strong>Having a look before you buy</strong>\n\nYou don\'t need to commit to an ebook before buying it. In fact you can read a substantial amount of it for free, much more than you\'d get by flicking through a paper book in a shop. All main ebook systems come with a sample function. If you\'re uncertain, use it -- you may be surprised how big a chunk of the book you get (I know I was).\n\n<strong>Free out of print books</strong>\n\nBooks have a limited copyright life, one determined by different sets of laws around the world. Lots of well-known works are now out of copyright. So you can download editions of Shakespeare, Conan Doyle, Jules Verne and many other authors for nothing. A great site to find these authors is <a href=\"http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page\" target=\"_blank\">Project Gutenberg</a> which has been digitising out of print books for some time. You will also find inexpensive editions of classic books on Amazon and other stores. Often these are based on Gutenberg texts so you may want to use the original for free.\n\n<strong>Unauthorised editions</strong>\n\nThe music industry was devastated by the proliferation of piracy of MP3 files shared freely across the internet. There are similar fears that the book business will be impacted in the same way by the growing amount of stolen copyright modern books now being placed online, often as money-making ventures for the criminals behind this trade. If you\'re thinking of getting some \'free\' books this way please think again. People who love books don\'t steal them, because they know that in the end that practice will damage the livelihoods of people working in publishing, and their continuing ability to be able to afford to write. You could also find yourself the victim of fraud and theft too.\n\nHere are some fallacies about ebook theft you may encounter.\n\n<em>It\'s not really stealing.</em>\n\nBook thieves try to justify this in many different ways. They call themselves \'pirates\' or \'file sharers\'. They will say, \'But I wouldn\'t have bought the book if I had to pay for it.\' Or, \'If I like the book I got for free it makes it more likely I\'ll tell my friends and buy the next one.\' Don\'t fall for these excuses. People who rip off ebooks are taking something of value without paying for it. That\'s theft.\n\n<em>It\'s not a big problem</em>\n\nAlmost every commercial ebook now published is available in ripped-off form, and many popular audiobooks. <a title=\"Another insight into how book thieves work\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/2011/02/another-insight-into-how-book-thieves-work/\">One \'file sharing\' site alone</a> has more than 300,000 registered users, who frequently share stolen books among each other and give themselves \'rewards\' for new titles.\n\n<em>\n</em>','Got a new ereader? Some things you ought to know...','','inherit','open','open','','7736-revision-5','','','2011-03-11 12:47:14','2011-03-11 12:47:14','',7736,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7736-revision-5/',0,'revision','',0),(7742,1,'2011-03-11 13:19:21','2011-03-11 13:19:21','','steal','','inherit','open','open','','steal','','','2011-03-11 13:19:21','2011-03-11 13:19:21','',7736,'http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/steal.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(7743,1,'2011-03-11 13:12:21','2011-03-11 13:12:21','<em>This article can be copied and reused anywhere without prior permission.</em>\n\nThe world is embracing the ebook at an astonishing pace. Most of us who write for a living welcome this. It means new opportunities for authors and readers alike. It means you can carry lots of books in a single, light device. With some systems you can do clever things such as sharing comments and even lending books to your friends.\n\nEveryone who works in publishing -- as writers, editors, designers, in sales and marketing -- wants you to make the most of that new gadget, and to understand how it fits into the world of books. So this is an attempt to set down a few facts about this fast-changing medium.\n\n<strong>Price</strong>\n\nEbook prices have been in flux, mainly due to the speed at which ereaders have taken off. There was a time when ebooks were sometimes more expensive than their print equivalent. This rarely happens now. If you look on Amazon you\'ll usually find they are slightly lower in price than the print book. Prices still usually follow the cycle of paper publishing. So the original ebook price will be based on the hardback cost, and will fall when the paperback comes out. To use my own work as an example, my current hardback, <em>The Fallen Angel,</em> costs £7.99 at Amazon UK and £7.19 for the Kindle edition. My current paperback, <em>The Blue Demon, </em>lists at £4.19 while the paperback is £3.98. So you save money and get the added convenience of the ebook, but don\'t, of course, have that nice book to put on the shelf. The choice is yours.\n\n<strong>Having a look before you buy</strong>\n\nYou don\'t need to commit to an ebook before buying it. In fact you can read a substantial amount of it for free, much more than you\'d get by flicking through a paper book in a shop. All main ebook systems come with a sample function. If you\'re uncertain, use it -- you may be surprised how big a chunk of the book you get (I know I was).\n\n<strong>Free out of print books</strong>\n\nBooks have a limited copyright life, one determined by different sets of laws around the world. Lots of well-known works are now out of copyright. So you can download editions of Shakespeare, Conan Doyle, Jules Verne and many other authors for nothing. A great site to find these authors is <a href=\"http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page\" target=\"_blank\">Project Gutenberg</a> which has been digitising out of print books for some time. You will also find inexpensive editions of classic books on Amazon and other stores. Often these are based on Gutenberg texts so you may want to use the original for free.\n\n<strong>Unauthorised editions</strong>\n\nThe music industry was devastated by the proliferation of piracy of MP3 files shared freely across the internet. There are similar fears that the book business will be impacted in the same way by the growing amount of stolen copyright modern books now being placed online, often as money-making ventures for the criminals behind this trade. If you\'re thinking of getting some \'free\' books this way please think again. People who love books don\'t steal them, because they know that in the end that practice will damage the livelihoods of people working in publishing, and their continuing ability to be able to afford to write. You could also find yourself the victim of fraud and theft too.\n\nHere are some fallacies about ebook theft you may encounter.\n\n<em>It\'s not really stealing.</em>\n\nBook thieves try to justify this in many different ways. They call themselves \'pirates\' or \'file sharers\'. They will say, \'But I wouldn\'t have bought the book if I had to pay for it.\' Or, \'If I like the book I got for free it makes it more likely I\'ll tell my friends and buy the next one.\' Don\'t fall for these excuses. People who rip off ebooks are taking something of value without paying for it. That\'s theft.\n\n<em>It\'s not a big problem</em>\n\nAlmost every commercial ebook now published is available in ripped-off form, and many popular audiobooks. <a title=\"Another insight into how book thieves work\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/2011/02/another-insight-into-how-book-thieves-work/\">One \'file sharing\' site alone</a> has more than 300,000 registered users, who frequently share stolen books among each other and give themselves \'rewards\' for new titles.\n\n<em>Authors don\'t need the money anyway.</em>\n\nSome of us don\'t. But most authors don\'t earn much at all. For many writing is a second job while something else pays the bills. Book theft deprives them and the employees of their publishing house of income at a time when earnings are falling throughout the media.\n\n<em>If you just made the books cheaper I\'d buy instead of stealing.</em>\n\nHow cheap does a book have to be? As we\'ve already said, ebooks are, in most instances, cheaper than their paper equivalent. In many large markets book prices have fallen considerably over the last decade. A mainstream ebook can now be had for £3 to £4 in the UK, which is cheaper than an equivalent book cost twenty years ago.\n\n<em>If you object to book piracy you should also object to libraries and second hand book sales.</em>\n\nLibraries buy books, and in many countries pay a public lending right to authors, a small sum based on the number of times a title is lent. Second hand book sales are of one copy alone. Digital books can be \'duplicated\' a million times at no cost. A second hand sale on eBay is not the same as uploading a file to a torrent site that serves hundreds of thousands of users.','Got a new ereader? Some things you ought to know...','','inherit','open','open','','7736-revision-6','','','2011-03-11 13:12:21','2011-03-11 13:12:21','',7736,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7736-revision-6/',0,'revision','',0),(7744,1,'2011-03-11 13:19:52','2011-03-11 13:19:52','<em><a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/steal.jpg\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-7742 alignright\" title=\"steal\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/steal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" /></a>This article can be copied and reused anywhere without prior permission.</em>\r\n\r\nThe world is embracing the ebook at an astonishing pace. Most of us who write for a living welcome this. It means new opportunities for authors and readers alike. It means you can carry lots of books in a single, light device. With some systems you can do clever things such as sharing comments and even lending books to your friends.\r\n\r\nEveryone who works in publishing -- as writers, editors, designers, in sales and marketing -- wants you to make the most of that new gadget, and to understand how it fits into the world of books. So this is an attempt to set down a few facts about this fast-changing medium.\r\n\r\n<strong>Price</strong>\r\n\r\nEbook prices have been in flux, mainly due to the speed at which ereaders have taken off. There was a time when ebooks were sometimes more expensive than their print equivalent. This rarely happens now. If you look on Amazon you\'ll usually find they are slightly lower in price than the print book. Prices still usually follow the cycle of paper publishing. So the original ebook price will be based on the hardback cost, and will fall when the paperback comes out. To use my own work as an example, my current hardback, <em>The Fallen Angel,</em> costs £7.99 at Amazon UK and £7.19 for the Kindle edition. My current paperback, <em>The Blue Demon, </em>lists at £4.19 while the paperback is £3.98. So you save money and get the added convenience of the ebook, but don\'t, of course, have that nice book to put on the shelf. The choice is yours.\r\n\r\n<strong>Having a look before you buy</strong>\r\n\r\nYou don\'t need to commit to an ebook before buying it. In fact you can read a substantial amount of it for free, much more than you\'d get by flicking through a paper book in a shop. All main ebook systems come with a sample function. If you\'re uncertain, use it -- you may be surprised how big a chunk of the book you get (I know I was).\r\n\r\n<strong>Free out of print books</strong>\r\n\r\nBooks have a limited copyright life, one determined by different sets of laws around the world. Lots of well-known works are now out of copyright. So you can download editions of Shakespeare, Conan Doyle, Jules Verne and many other authors for nothing. A great site to find these authors is <a href=\"http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page\" target=\"_blank\">Project Gutenberg</a> which has been digitising out of print books for some time. You will also find inexpensive editions of classic books on Amazon and other stores. Often these are based on Gutenberg texts so you may want to use the original for free.\r\n\r\n<strong>Unauthorised editions</strong>\r\n\r\nThe music industry was devastated by the proliferation of piracy of MP3 files shared freely across the internet. There are similar fears that the book business will be impacted in the same way by the growing amount of stolen copyright modern books now being placed online, often as money-making ventures for the criminals behind this trade. If you\'re thinking of getting some \'free\' books this way please think again. People who love books don\'t steal them, because they know that in the end that practice will damage the livelihoods of people working in publishing, and their continuing ability to be able to afford to write. You could also find yourself the victim of fraud and theft too.\r\n\r\nHere are some fallacies about ebook theft you may encounter.\r\n\r\n<em>It\'s not really stealing.</em>\r\n\r\nBook thieves try to justify this in many different ways. They call themselves \'pirates\' or \'file sharers\'. They will say, \'But I wouldn\'t have bought the book if I had to pay for it.\' Or, \'If I like the book I got for free it makes it more likely I\'ll tell my friends and buy the next one.\' Don\'t fall for these excuses. People who rip off ebooks are taking something of value without paying for it. That\'s theft.\r\n\r\n<em>It\'s not a big problem</em>\r\n\r\nAlmost every commercial ebook now published is available in ripped-off form, and many popular audiobooks. <a title=\"Another insight into how book thieves work\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/2011/02/another-insight-into-how-book-thieves-work/\">One \'file sharing\' site alone</a> has more than 300,000 registered users, who frequently share stolen books among each other and give themselves \'rewards\' for new titles.\r\n\r\n<em>Authors don\'t need the money anyway.</em>\r\n\r\nSome of us don\'t. But most authors don\'t earn much at all. For many writing is a second job while something else pays the bills. Book theft deprives them and the employees of their publishing house of income at a time when earnings are falling throughout the media.\r\n\r\n<em>If you just made the books cheaper I\'d buy instead of stealing.</em>\r\n\r\nHow cheap does a book have to be? As we\'ve already said, ebooks are, in most instances, cheaper than their paper equivalent. In many large markets book prices have fallen considerably over the last decade. A mainstream ebook can now be had for £3 to £4 in the UK, which is cheaper than an equivalent book cost twenty years ago.\r\n\r\n<em>If you object to book piracy you should also object to libraries and second hand book sales.</em>\r\n\r\nLibraries buy books, and in many countries pay a public lending right to authors, a small sum based on the number of times a title is lent. Second hand book sales are of one copy alone. Digital books can be \'duplicated\' a million times at no cost. A second hand sale on eBay is not the same as uploading a file to a torrent site that serves hundreds of thousands of users.','Got a new ereader? Some things you ought to know...','','inherit','open','open','','7736-revision-7','','','2011-03-11 13:19:52','2011-03-11 13:19:52','',7736,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7736-revision-7/',0,'revision','',0),(7745,1,'2011-03-11 13:20:01','2011-03-11 13:20:01','<em><a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/steal.jpg\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-7742 alignright\" title=\"steal\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/steal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" /></a>This article can be copied and reused anywhere without prior permission.</em>\r\n\r\nThe world is embracing the ebook at an astonishing pace. Most of us who write for a living welcome this. It means new opportunities for authors and readers alike. It means you can carry lots of books in a single, light device. With some systems you can do clever things such as sharing comments and even lending books to your friends.\r\n\r\nEveryone who works in publishing -- as writers, editors, designers, in sales and marketing -- wants you to make the most of that new gadget, and to understand how it fits into the world of books. So this is an attempt to set down a few facts about this fast-changing medium.\r\n\r\n<strong>Price</strong>\r\n\r\nEbook prices have been in flux, mainly due to the speed at which ereaders have taken off. There was a time when ebooks were sometimes more expensive than their print equivalent. This rarely happens now. If you look on Amazon you\'ll usually find they are slightly lower in price than the print book. Prices still usually follow the cycle of paper publishing. So the original ebook price will be based on the hardback cost, and will fall when the paperback comes out. To use my own work as an example, my current hardback, <em>The Fallen Angel,</em> costs £7.99 at Amazon UK and £7.19 for the Kindle edition. My current paperback, <em>The Blue Demon, </em>lists at £4.19 while the paperback is £3.98. So you save money and get the added convenience of the ebook, but don\'t, of course, have that nice book to put on the shelf. The choice is yours.\r\n\r\n<strong>Having a look before you buy</strong>\r\n\r\nYou don\'t need to commit to an ebook before buying it. In fact you can read a substantial amount of it for free, much more than you\'d get by flicking through a paper book in a shop. All main ebook systems come with a sample function. If you\'re uncertain, use it -- you may be surprised how big a chunk of the book you get (I know I was).\r\n\r\n<strong>Free out of print books</strong>\r\n\r\nBooks have a limited copyright life, one determined by different sets of laws around the world. Lots of well-known works are now out of copyright. So you can download editions of Shakespeare, Conan Doyle, Jules Verne and many other authors for nothing. A great site to find these authors is <a href=\"http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page\" target=\"_blank\">Project Gutenberg</a> which has been digitising out of print books for some time. You will also find inexpensive editions of classic books on Amazon and other stores. Often these are based on Gutenberg texts so you may want to use the original for free.\r\n\r\n<strong>Unauthorised editions</strong>\r\n\r\nThe music industry was devastated by the proliferation of piracy of MP3 files shared freely across the internet. There are similar fears that the book business will be impacted in the same way by the growing amount of stolen copyright modern books now being placed online, often as money-making ventures for the criminals behind this trade. If you\'re thinking of getting some \'free\' books this way please think again. People who love books don\'t steal them, because they know that in the end that practice will damage the livelihoods of people working in publishing, and their continuing ability to be able to afford to write. You could also find yourself the victim of fraud and theft too.\r\n\r\nHere are some fallacies about ebook theft you may encounter.\r\n\r\n<em>It\'s not really stealing.</em>\r\n\r\nBook thieves try to justify this in many different ways. They call themselves \'pirates\' or \'file sharers\'. They will say, \'But I wouldn\'t have bought the book if I had to pay for it.\' Or, \'If I like the book I got for free it makes it more likely I\'ll tell my friends and buy the next one.\' Don\'t fall for these excuses. People who rip off ebooks are taking something of value without paying for it. That\'s theft.\r\n\r\n<em>It\'s not a big problem</em>\r\n\r\nAlmost every commercial ebook now published is available in ripped-off form, and many popular audiobooks. <a title=\"Another insight into how book thieves work\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/2011/02/another-insight-into-how-book-thieves-work/\">One \'file sharing\' site alone</a> has more than 300,000 registered users, who frequently share stolen books among each other and give themselves \'rewards\' for new titles.\r\n\r\n<em>Authors don\'t need the money anyway.</em>\r\n\r\nSome of us don\'t. But most authors don\'t earn much at all. For many writing is a second job while something else pays the bills. Book theft deprives them and the employees of their publishing house of income at a time when earnings are falling throughout the media.\r\n\r\n<em>If you just made the books cheaper I\'d buy instead of stealing.</em>\r\n\r\nHow cheap does a book have to be? As we\'ve already said, ebooks are, in most instances, cheaper than their paper equivalent. In many large markets book prices have fallen considerably over the last decade. A mainstream ebook can now be had for £3 to £4 in the UK, which is cheaper than an equivalent book cost twenty years ago.\r\n\r\n<em>If you object to book piracy you should also object to libraries and second hand book sales.</em>\r\n\r\nLibraries buy books, and in many countries pay a public lending right to authors, a small sum based on the number of times a title is lent. Second hand book sales are of one copy alone. Digital books can be \'duplicated\' a million times at no cost. A second hand sale on eBay is not the same as uploading a file to a torrent site that serves hundreds of thousands of users.','Got a new ereader? Some things you ought to know...','','inherit','open','open','','7736-revision-8','','','2011-03-11 13:20:01','2011-03-11 13:20:01','',7736,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7736-revision-8/',0,'revision','',0),(7746,1,'2011-03-11 13:37:14','2011-03-11 13:37:14','<em><a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/steal.jpg\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-7742 alignright\" title=\"steal\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/steal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" /></a>This article can be copied and reused anywhere without prior permission.</em>\r\n\r\nThe world is embracing the ebook at an astonishing pace. Most of us who write for a living welcome this. It means new opportunities for authors and readers alike. It means you can carry lots of books in a single, light device. With some systems you can do clever things such as sharing comments and even lending books to your friends.\r\n\r\nEveryone who works in publishing -- as writers, editors, designers, in sales and marketing -- wants you to make the most of that new gadget, and to understand how it fits into the world of books. So this is an attempt to set down a few facts about this fast-changing medium.\r\n\r\n<strong>Price</strong>\r\n\r\nEbook prices have been in flux, mainly due to the speed at which ereaders have taken off. There was a time when ebooks were sometimes more expensive than their print equivalent. This rarely happens now. If you look on Amazon you\'ll usually find they are slightly lower in price than the print book. Prices still usually follow the cycle of paper publishing. So the original ebook price will be based on the hardback cost, and will fall when the paperback comes out. To use my own work as an example, my current hardback, <em>The Fallen Angel,</em> costs £7.99 at Amazon UK and £7.19 for the Kindle edition. My current paperback, <em>The Blue Demon, </em>lists at £4.19 while the paperback is £3.98. So you save money and get the added convenience of the ebook, but don\'t, of course, have that nice book to put on the shelf. The choice is yours.\r\n\r\n<strong>Having a look before you buy</strong>\r\n\r\nYou don\'t need to commit to an ebook before buying it. In fact you can read a substantial amount of it for free, much more than you\'d get by flicking through a paper book in a shop. All main ebook systems come with a sample function. If you\'re uncertain, use it -- you may be surprised how big a chunk of the book you get (I know I was).\r\n\r\n<strong>Free out of print books</strong>\r\n\r\nBooks have a limited copyright life, one determined by different sets of laws around the world. Lots of well-known works are now out of copyright. So you can download editions of Shakespeare, Conan Doyle, Jules Verne and many other authors for nothing. A great site to find these authors is <a href=\"http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page\" target=\"_blank\">Project Gutenberg</a> which has been digitising out of print books for some time. You will also find inexpensive editions of classic books on Amazon and other stores. Often these are based on Gutenberg texts so you may want to use the original for free.\r\n\r\n<strong>Unauthorised editions</strong>\r\n\r\nThe music industry was devastated by the proliferation of piracy of MP3 files shared freely across the internet. There are similar fears that the book business will be impacted in the same way by the growing amount of stolen copyright modern books now being placed online, often as money-making ventures for the criminals behind this trade. If you\'re thinking of getting some \'free\' books this way please think again. People who love books don\'t steal them, because they know that in the end that practice will damage the livelihoods of people working in publishing, and their continuing ability to be able to afford to write. You could also find yourself the victim of fraud and theft too.\r\n\r\nHere are some fallacies about ebook theft you may encounter.\r\n\r\n<em>It\'s not really stealing.</em>\r\n\r\nPeople who obtain illicit books on the internet try to justify their actions in many different ways. They call themselves \'pirates\' or \'file sharers\'. They will say, \'But I wouldn\'t have bought the book if I had to pay for it.\' Or, \'If I like the book I got for free it makes it more likely I\'ll tell my friends and buy the next one.\' Don\'t fall for these excuses. People who rip off ebooks are taking something of value without paying for it. That\'s theft. And given the rising traffic of illegal file sharing sites it\'s plain to see they\'re more interested in stealing books than buying them.\r\n\r\n<em>It\'s not a big problem</em>\r\n\r\nAlmost every commercial ebook now published is available in ripped-off form, and many popular audiobooks. <a title=\"Another insight into how book thieves work\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/2011/02/another-insight-into-how-book-thieves-work/\">One \'file sharing\' site alone</a> has more than 300,000 registered users, who frequently share stolen books among each other and give themselves \'rewards\' for new titles.\r\n\r\n<em>Authors don\'t need the money anyway.</em>\r\n\r\nSome of us don\'t. But most authors don\'t earn much at all. For many writing is a second job while something else pays the bills. Book theft deprives them and the employees of their publishing house of income. Musicians who lost their sales income through mp3 ripoffs could try to replace it with concerts and merchandise sales. Authors have none of those opportunities. Their principal source of income comes from the sale of a book.\r\n\r\n<em>If you just made the books cheaper I\'d buy instead of stealing.</em>\r\n\r\nHow cheap does a book have to be? As we\'ve already said, ebooks are, in most instances, cheaper than their paper equivalent. In many large markets book prices have fallen considerably over the last decade. A mainstream ebook can now be had for £3 to £4 in the UK, which is cheaper than an equivalent book cost twenty years ago.\r\n\r\n<em>If you object to book piracy you should also object to libraries and second hand book sales.</em>\r\n\r\nLibraries buy books, and in many countries pay a public lending right to authors, a small sum based on the number of times a title is lent. Second hand book sales are of one copy alone. Digital books can be \'duplicated\' a million times at no cost. A second hand sale on eBay is not the same as uploading a file to a torrent site that serves hundreds of thousands of users.\r\n\r\n<em>Book torrent sites are run by book fans who are just giving out free advertising for authors. You should be grateful instead of moaning.</em>\r\n\r\n<em>Not so. </em>As a<a title=\"The criminals behind intellectual property theft\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/the-criminals-behind-intellectual-property-theft/\"> report from the US International Intellectual Property Alliance</a> details, media piracy is big business, controlled by organised crime rings in many parts of the world. There are vast profits to be made here as intellectual property moves into the digital medium and can be hidden around the world, then served up from sites based in countries without enforceable copyright laws. This is about money: getting a subscription out of you in return for access to all that stolen material. Do you want to give your credit card details to a criminal gang? Then sign up for one of those torrent sites.\r\n\r\n<em>Why don\'t you cut out the publishers altogether and sell your books direct over the internet yourself, at a lower price?</em>\r\n\r\nPrice is very obviously not the issue here. Some authors are going the direct route, especially with their backlist titles. But it\'s a fallacy to think that a book goes from manuscript to finished title without any intermediate processes. Professional publishing involves several sets of professional editing and creative input that helps an author produce a better book. Even if a writer wants to sell direct, a wise one will still factor in the cost of external editing, marketing and design. Just taking out the printing process and the publisher does not change the fundamental economics of the business.\r\n\r\n<strong>In short...</strong>\r\n\r\nThe digital book revolution is a great thing. It makes it easier and cheaper to read and buy books than ever before. You can try before you buy and you can still go back to paper when you want to. But the phenomenal growth of digital book theft is a threat to the modest income many writers rely on. There are individuals out there who rip off copyright work -- books, software, movies and music -- out of some kind of warped principle. They don\'t want to pay for other people\'s intellectual property and never will.\r\n\r\nAuthors are never going to win that battle. So we\'re relying on the vast majority of honest book buyers to support the writing community. Use the established sites. Download samples. See what you like. And then, please, buy it, don\'t steal it.','Got a new ereader? Some things you ought to know...','','inherit','open','open','','7736-revision-9','','','2011-03-11 13:37:14','2011-03-11 13:37:14','',7736,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7736-revision-9/',0,'revision','',0),(7747,1,'2011-03-11 13:43:00','2011-03-11 13:43:00','<em><a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/steal.jpg\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-7742 alignright\" title=\"steal\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/steal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" /></a>This article can be copied and reused anywhere without prior permission.</em>\n\nThe world is embracing the ebook at an astonishing pace. Most of us who write for a living welcome this. It means new opportunities for authors and readers alike. It means you can carry lots of books in a single, light device. With some systems you can do clever things such as sharing comments and even lending books to your friends.\n\nEveryone who works in publishing -- as writers, editors, designers, in sales and marketing -- wants you to make the most of that new gadget, and to understand how it fits into the world of books. So this is an attempt to set down a few facts about this fast-changing medium.\n\n<strong>Price</strong>\n\nEbook prices have been in flux, mainly due to the speed at which ereaders have taken off. There was a time when ebooks were sometimes more expensive than their print equivalent. This rarely happens now. If you look on Amazon you\'ll usually find they are slightly lower in price than the print book. Prices still usually follow the cycle of paper publishing. So the original ebook price will be based on the hardback cost, and will fall when the paperback comes out. To use my own work as an example, my current hardback, <em>The Fallen Angel,</em> costs £7.99 at Amazon UK and £7.19 for the Kindle edition. My current paperback, <em>The Blue Demon, </em>lists at £4.19 while the paperback is £3.98. So you save money and get the added convenience of the ebook, but don\'t, of course, have that nice book to put on the shelf. The choice is yours.\n\n<strong>Having a look before you buy</strong>\n\nYou don\'t need to commit to an ebook before buying it. In fact you can read a substantial amount of it for free, much more than you\'d get by flicking through a paper book in a shop. All main ebook systems come with a sample function. If you\'re uncertain, use it -- you may be surprised how big a chunk of the book you get (I know I was).\n\n<strong>Free out of print books</strong>\n\nBooks have a limited copyright life, one determined by different sets of laws around the world. Lots of well-known works are now out of copyright. So you can download editions of Shakespeare, Conan Doyle, Jules Verne and many other authors for nothing. A great site to find these authors is <a href=\"http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page\" target=\"_blank\">Project Gutenberg</a> which has been digitising out of print books for some time. You will also find inexpensive editions of classic books on Amazon and other stores. Often these are based on Gutenberg texts so you may want to use the original for free.\n\n<strong>Unauthorised editions</strong>\n\nThe music industry was devastated by the proliferation of piracy of MP3 files shared freely across the internet. There are similar fears that the book business will be impacted in the same way by the growing amount of stolen copyright modern books now being placed online, often as money-making ventures for the criminals behind this trade. If you\'re thinking of getting some \'free\' books this way please think again. People who love books don\'t steal them, because they know that in the end that practice will damage the livelihoods of people working in publishing, and their continuing ability to be able to afford to write. You could also find yourself the victim of fraud and theft too.\n\nHere are some fallacies about ebook theft you may encounter.\n\n<em>It\'s not really stealing.</em>\n\nPeople who obtain illicit books on the internet try to justify their actions in many different ways. They call themselves \'pirates\' or \'file sharers\'. They will say, \'But I wouldn\'t have bought the book if I had to pay for it.\' Or, \'If I like the book I got for free it makes it more likely I\'ll tell my friends and buy the next one.\' Don\'t fall for these excuses. People who rip off ebooks are taking something of value without paying for it. That\'s stealing.\n\n<em>It\'s not a big problem</em>\n\nAlmost every commercial ebook now published is available in ripped-off form, and many popular audiobooks. <a title=\"Another insight into how book thieves work\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/2011/02/another-insight-into-how-book-thieves-work/\">One \'file sharing\' site alone</a> has more than 300,000 registered users, who frequently share stolen books among each other and give themselves \'rewards\' for new titles.\n\n<em>Authors don\'t need the money anyway.</em>\n\nSome of us don\'t. But most authors don\'t earn much at all. For many writing is a second job while something else pays the bills. Book theft deprives them and the employees of their publishing house of income. Musicians who lost their sales income through mp3 ripoffs could try to replace it with concerts and merchandise sales. Authors have none of those opportunities. Their principal source of income comes from the sale of a book.\n\n<em>If you just made the books cheaper I\'d buy instead of stealing.</em>\n\nHow cheap does a book have to be? As we\'ve already said, ebooks are, in most instances, cheaper than their paper equivalent. In many large markets book prices have fallen considerably over the last decade. A mainstream ebook can now be had for £3 to £4 in the UK, which is cheaper than an equivalent book cost twenty years ago.\n\n<em>If you object to book piracy you should also object to libraries and second hand book sales.</em>\n\nLibraries buy books, and in many countries pay a public lending right to authors, a small sum based on the number of times a title is lent. Second hand book sales are of one copy alone. Digital books can be \'duplicated\' a million times at no cost. A second hand sale on eBay is not the same as uploading a file to a torrent site that serves hundreds of thousands of users.\n\n<em>Book torrent sites are run by book fans who are just giving out free advertising for authors. You should be grateful instead of moaning.</em>\n\n<em>Not so. </em>As a<a title=\"The criminals behind intellectual property theft\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/the-criminals-behind-intellectual-property-theft/\"> report from the US International Intellectual Property Alliance</a> details, media piracy is big business, controlled by organised crime rings in many parts of the world. There are vast profits to be made here as intellectual property moves into the digital medium and can be hidden around the world, then served up from sites based in countries without enforceable copyright laws. This is about money: getting a subscription out of you in return for access to all that stolen material. Do you want to give your credit card details to a criminal gang? Then sign up for one of those torrent sites.\n\n<em>Why don\'t you cut out the publishers altogether and sell your books direct over the internet yourself, at a lower price?</em>\n\nPrice is very obviously not the issue here. Some authors are going the direct route, especially with their backlist titles. But it\'s a fallacy to think that a book goes from manuscript to finished title without any intermediate processes. Professional publishing involves several sets of professional editing and creative input that helps an author produce a better book. Even if a writer wants to sell direct, a wise one will still factor in the cost of external editing, marketing and design. Just taking out the printing process and the publisher does not change the fundamental economics of the business. Self published authors are just as likely to be victims of ebook theft as anyone else.\n\n<strong>In short...</strong>\n\nThe digital book revolution is a great thing. It makes it easier and cheaper to read and buy books than ever before. You can try before you buy and you can still go back to paper when you want to. But the phenomenal growth of digital book theft is a threat to the modest income many writers rely on. There are individuals out there who rip off copyright work -- books, software, movies and music -- out of some kind of warped principle. They don\'t want to pay for other people\'s intellectual property and never will.\n\nAuthors are never going to win that battle. So we\'re relying on the vast majority of honest book buyers to support the writing community. Use the established sites. Download samples. See what you like. And then, please, buy it, don\'t steal it.','Got a new ereader? Some things you ought to know...','','inherit','open','open','','7736-autosave','','','2011-03-11 13:43:00','2011-03-11 13:43:00','',7736,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7736-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(7748,1,'2011-03-11 13:37:24','2011-03-11 13:37:24','<em><a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/steal.jpg\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-7742 alignright\" title=\"steal\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/steal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" /></a>This article can be copied and reused anywhere without prior permission.</em>\r\n\r\nThe world is embracing the ebook at an astonishing pace. Most of us who write for a living welcome this. It means new opportunities for authors and readers alike. It means you can carry lots of books in a single, light device. With some systems you can do clever things such as sharing comments and even lending books to your friends.\r\n\r\nEveryone who works in publishing -- as writers, editors, designers, in sales and marketing -- wants you to make the most of that new gadget, and to understand how it fits into the world of books. So this is an attempt to set down a few facts about this fast-changing medium.\r\n\r\n<strong>Price</strong>\r\n\r\nEbook prices have been in flux, mainly due to the speed at which ereaders have taken off. There was a time when ebooks were sometimes more expensive than their print equivalent. This rarely happens now. If you look on Amazon you\'ll usually find they are slightly lower in price than the print book. Prices still usually follow the cycle of paper publishing. So the original ebook price will be based on the hardback cost, and will fall when the paperback comes out. To use my own work as an example, my current hardback, <em>The Fallen Angel,</em> costs £7.99 at Amazon UK and £7.19 for the Kindle edition. My current paperback, <em>The Blue Demon, </em>lists at £4.19 while the paperback is £3.98. So you save money and get the added convenience of the ebook, but don\'t, of course, have that nice book to put on the shelf. The choice is yours.\r\n\r\n<strong>Having a look before you buy</strong>\r\n\r\nYou don\'t need to commit to an ebook before buying it. In fact you can read a substantial amount of it for free, much more than you\'d get by flicking through a paper book in a shop. All main ebook systems come with a sample function. If you\'re uncertain, use it -- you may be surprised how big a chunk of the book you get (I know I was).\r\n\r\n<strong>Free out of print books</strong>\r\n\r\nBooks have a limited copyright life, one determined by different sets of laws around the world. Lots of well-known works are now out of copyright. So you can download editions of Shakespeare, Conan Doyle, Jules Verne and many other authors for nothing. A great site to find these authors is <a href=\"http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page\" target=\"_blank\">Project Gutenberg</a> which has been digitising out of print books for some time. You will also find inexpensive editions of classic books on Amazon and other stores. Often these are based on Gutenberg texts so you may want to use the original for free.\r\n\r\n<strong>Unauthorised editions</strong>\r\n\r\nThe music industry was devastated by the proliferation of piracy of MP3 files shared freely across the internet. There are similar fears that the book business will be impacted in the same way by the growing amount of stolen copyright modern books now being placed online, often as money-making ventures for the criminals behind this trade. If you\'re thinking of getting some \'free\' books this way please think again. People who love books don\'t steal them, because they know that in the end that practice will damage the livelihoods of people working in publishing, and their continuing ability to be able to afford to write. You could also find yourself the victim of fraud and theft too.\r\n\r\nHere are some fallacies about ebook theft you may encounter.\r\n\r\n<em>It\'s not really stealing.</em>\r\n\r\nPeople who obtain illicit books on the internet try to justify their actions in many different ways. They call themselves \'pirates\' or \'file sharers\'. They will say, \'But I wouldn\'t have bought the book if I had to pay for it.\' Or, \'If I like the book I got for free it makes it more likely I\'ll tell my friends and buy the next one.\' Don\'t fall for these excuses. People who rip off ebooks are taking something of value without paying for it. That\'s theft. And given the rising traffic of illegal file sharing sites it\'s plain to see they\'re more interested in stealing books than buying them.\r\n\r\n<em>It\'s not a big problem</em>\r\n\r\nAlmost every commercial ebook now published is available in ripped-off form, and many popular audiobooks. <a title=\"Another insight into how book thieves work\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/2011/02/another-insight-into-how-book-thieves-work/\">One \'file sharing\' site alone</a> has more than 300,000 registered users, who frequently share stolen books among each other and give themselves \'rewards\' for new titles.\r\n\r\n<em>Authors don\'t need the money anyway.</em>\r\n\r\nSome of us don\'t. But most authors don\'t earn much at all. For many writing is a second job while something else pays the bills. Book theft deprives them and the employees of their publishing house of income. Musicians who lost their sales income through mp3 ripoffs could try to replace it with concerts and merchandise sales. Authors have none of those opportunities. Their principal source of income comes from the sale of a book.\r\n\r\n<em>If you just made the books cheaper I\'d buy instead of stealing.</em>\r\n\r\nHow cheap does a book have to be? As we\'ve already said, ebooks are, in most instances, cheaper than their paper equivalent. In many large markets book prices have fallen considerably over the last decade. A mainstream ebook can now be had for £3 to £4 in the UK, which is cheaper than an equivalent book cost twenty years ago.\r\n\r\n<em>If you object to book piracy you should also object to libraries and second hand book sales.</em>\r\n\r\nLibraries buy books, and in many countries pay a public lending right to authors, a small sum based on the number of times a title is lent. Second hand book sales are of one copy alone. Digital books can be \'duplicated\' a million times at no cost. A second hand sale on eBay is not the same as uploading a file to a torrent site that serves hundreds of thousands of users.\r\n\r\n<em>Book torrent sites are run by book fans who are just giving out free advertising for authors. You should be grateful instead of moaning.</em>\r\n\r\n<em>Not so. </em>As a<a title=\"The criminals behind intellectual property theft\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/the-criminals-behind-intellectual-property-theft/\"> report from the US International Intellectual Property Alliance</a> details, media piracy is big business, controlled by organised crime rings in many parts of the world. There are vast profits to be made here as intellectual property moves into the digital medium and can be hidden around the world, then served up from sites based in countries without enforceable copyright laws. This is about money: getting a subscription out of you in return for access to all that stolen material. Do you want to give your credit card details to a criminal gang? Then sign up for one of those torrent sites.\r\n\r\n<em>Why don\'t you cut out the publishers altogether and sell your books direct over the internet yourself, at a lower price?</em>\r\n\r\nPrice is very obviously not the issue here. Some authors are going the direct route, especially with their backlist titles. But it\'s a fallacy to think that a book goes from manuscript to finished title without any intermediate processes. Professional publishing involves several sets of professional editing and creative input that helps an author produce a better book. Even if a writer wants to sell direct, a wise one will still factor in the cost of external editing, marketing and design. Just taking out the printing process and the publisher does not change the fundamental economics of the business.\r\n\r\n<strong>In short...</strong>\r\n\r\nThe digital book revolution is a great thing. It makes it easier and cheaper to read and buy books than ever before. You can try before you buy and you can still go back to paper when you want to. But the phenomenal growth of digital book theft is a threat to the modest income many writers rely on. There are individuals out there who rip off copyright work -- books, software, movies and music -- out of some kind of warped principle. They don\'t want to pay for other people\'s intellectual property and never will.\r\n\r\nAuthors are never going to win that battle. So we\'re relying on the vast majority of honest book buyers to support the writing community. Use the established sites. Download samples. See what you like. And then, please, buy it, don\'t steal it.','Got a new ereader? Some things you ought to know...','','inherit','open','open','','7736-revision-10','','','2011-03-11 13:37:24','2011-03-11 13:37:24','',7736,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7736-revision-10/',0,'revision','',0),(7749,1,'2011-03-11 13:39:40','2011-03-11 13:39:40','<em><a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/steal.jpg\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-7742 alignright\" title=\"steal\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/steal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" /></a>This article can be copied and reused anywhere without prior permission.</em>\r\n\r\nThe world is embracing the ebook at an astonishing pace. Most of us who write for a living welcome this. It means new opportunities for authors and readers alike. It means you can carry lots of books in a single, light device. With some systems you can do clever things such as sharing comments and even lending books to your friends.\r\n\r\nEveryone who works in publishing -- as writers, editors, designers, in sales and marketing -- wants you to make the most of that new gadget, and to understand how it fits into the world of books. So this is an attempt to set down a few facts about this fast-changing medium.\r\n\r\n<strong>Price</strong>\r\n\r\nEbook prices have been in flux, mainly due to the speed at which ereaders have taken off. There was a time when ebooks were sometimes more expensive than their print equivalent. This rarely happens now. If you look on Amazon you\'ll usually find they are slightly lower in price than the print book. Prices still usually follow the cycle of paper publishing. So the original ebook price will be based on the hardback cost, and will fall when the paperback comes out. To use my own work as an example, my current hardback, <em>The Fallen Angel,</em> costs £7.99 at Amazon UK and £7.19 for the Kindle edition. My current paperback, <em>The Blue Demon, </em>lists at £4.19 while the paperback is £3.98. So you save money and get the added convenience of the ebook, but don\'t, of course, have that nice book to put on the shelf. The choice is yours.\r\n\r\n<strong>Having a look before you buy</strong>\r\n\r\nYou don\'t need to commit to an ebook before buying it. In fact you can read a substantial amount of it for free, much more than you\'d get by flicking through a paper book in a shop. All main ebook systems come with a sample function. If you\'re uncertain, use it -- you may be surprised how big a chunk of the book you get (I know I was).\r\n\r\n<strong>Free out of print books</strong>\r\n\r\nBooks have a limited copyright life, one determined by different sets of laws around the world. Lots of well-known works are now out of copyright. So you can download editions of Shakespeare, Conan Doyle, Jules Verne and many other authors for nothing. A great site to find these authors is <a href=\"http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page\" target=\"_blank\">Project Gutenberg</a> which has been digitising out of print books for some time. You will also find inexpensive editions of classic books on Amazon and other stores. Often these are based on Gutenberg texts so you may want to use the original for free.\r\n\r\n<strong>Unauthorised editions</strong>\r\n\r\nThe music industry was devastated by the proliferation of piracy of MP3 files shared freely across the internet. There are similar fears that the book business will be impacted in the same way by the growing amount of stolen copyright modern books now being placed online, often as money-making ventures for the criminals behind this trade. If you\'re thinking of getting some \'free\' books this way please think again. People who love books don\'t steal them, because they know that in the end that practice will damage the livelihoods of people working in publishing, and their continuing ability to be able to afford to write. You could also find yourself the victim of fraud and theft too.\r\n\r\nHere are some fallacies about ebook theft you may encounter.\r\n\r\n<em>It\'s not really stealing.</em>\r\n\r\nPeople who obtain illicit books on the internet try to justify their actions in many different ways. They call themselves \'pirates\' or \'file sharers\'. They will say, \'But I wouldn\'t have bought the book if I had to pay for it.\' Or, \'If I like the book I got for free it makes it more likely I\'ll tell my friends and buy the next one.\' Don\'t fall for these excuses. People who rip off ebooks are taking something of value without paying for it. That\'s stealing.\r\n\r\n<em>It\'s not a big problem</em>\r\n\r\nAlmost every commercial ebook now published is available in ripped-off form, and many popular audiobooks. <a title=\"Another insight into how book thieves work\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/2011/02/another-insight-into-how-book-thieves-work/\">One \'file sharing\' site alone</a> has more than 300,000 registered users, who frequently share stolen books among each other and give themselves \'rewards\' for new titles.\r\n\r\n<em>Authors don\'t need the money anyway.</em>\r\n\r\nSome of us don\'t. But most authors don\'t earn much at all. For many writing is a second job while something else pays the bills. Book theft deprives them and the employees of their publishing house of income. Musicians who lost their sales income through mp3 ripoffs could try to replace it with concerts and merchandise sales. Authors have none of those opportunities. Their principal source of income comes from the sale of a book.\r\n\r\n<em>If you just made the books cheaper I\'d buy instead of stealing.</em>\r\n\r\nHow cheap does a book have to be? As we\'ve already said, ebooks are, in most instances, cheaper than their paper equivalent. In many large markets book prices have fallen considerably over the last decade. A mainstream ebook can now be had for £3 to £4 in the UK, which is cheaper than an equivalent book cost twenty years ago.\r\n\r\n<em>If you object to book piracy you should also object to libraries and second hand book sales.</em>\r\n\r\nLibraries buy books, and in many countries pay a public lending right to authors, a small sum based on the number of times a title is lent. Second hand book sales are of one copy alone. Digital books can be \'duplicated\' a million times at no cost. A second hand sale on eBay is not the same as uploading a file to a torrent site that serves hundreds of thousands of users.\r\n\r\n<em>Book torrent sites are run by book fans who are just giving out free advertising for authors. You should be grateful instead of moaning.</em>\r\n\r\n<em>Not so. </em>As a<a title=\"The criminals behind intellectual property theft\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/the-criminals-behind-intellectual-property-theft/\"> report from the US International Intellectual Property Alliance</a> details, media piracy is big business, controlled by organised crime rings in many parts of the world. There are vast profits to be made here as intellectual property moves into the digital medium and can be hidden around the world, then served up from sites based in countries without enforceable copyright laws. This is about money: getting a subscription out of you in return for access to all that stolen material. Do you want to give your credit card details to a criminal gang? Then sign up for one of those torrent sites.\r\n\r\n<em>Why don\'t you cut out the publishers altogether and sell your books direct over the internet yourself, at a lower price?</em>\r\n\r\nPrice is very obviously not the issue here. Some authors are going the direct route, especially with their backlist titles. But it\'s a fallacy to think that a book goes from manuscript to finished title without any intermediate processes. Professional publishing involves several sets of professional editing and creative input that helps an author produce a better book. Even if a writer wants to sell direct, a wise one will still factor in the cost of external editing, marketing and design. Just taking out the printing process and the publisher does not change the fundamental economics of the business.\r\n\r\n<strong>In short...</strong>\r\n\r\nThe digital book revolution is a great thing. It makes it easier and cheaper to read and buy books than ever before. You can try before you buy and you can still go back to paper when you want to. But the phenomenal growth of digital book theft is a threat to the modest income many writers rely on. There are individuals out there who rip off copyright work -- books, software, movies and music -- out of some kind of warped principle. They don\'t want to pay for other people\'s intellectual property and never will.\r\n\r\nAuthors are never going to win that battle. So we\'re relying on the vast majority of honest book buyers to support the writing community. Use the established sites. Download samples. See what you like. And then, please, buy it, don\'t steal it.','Got a new ereader? Some things you ought to know...','','inherit','open','open','','7736-revision-11','','','2011-03-11 13:39:40','2011-03-11 13:39:40','',7736,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7736-revision-11/',0,'revision','',0),(7772,1,'2011-03-12 08:06:38','2011-03-12 08:06:38','<img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3439 noborder\" title=\"saved\" src=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/saved.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"341\" />Get this book immediately on <a href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/Saved-English-Village-Fought-Future/dp/B004RR1696/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;s=digital-text&amp;qid=1299917013&amp;sr=8-2\" target=\"_blank\">Kindle UK</a> for 86p and on <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Saved-English-Village-Future-ebook/dp/B004RR1696/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;m=A7B2F8DUJ88VZ&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1299917073&amp;sr=8-2\" target=\"_blank\">Kindle US</a> for $1.40\n\nI thought my journalism days were behind me. But sometimes life has a habit of turning things around in ways you least expect. In December 2005 I was in Rome researching what was to become <em>The Garden of Evil</em>. Out of the blue I took a phone call which revealed that the large London university Imperial College had very big designs on the area where I was lucky enough to live.\n\nThe next ten months saw an extraordinary battle by ordinary people pitched against an army of well-paid professional developers trying to turn some of the most beautiful – and protected – countryside in England over to the bulldozer. They were just ordinary citizens appalled by what was being planned, in secret and with the covert support of our own public representatives. The most extraordinary part of all is… we won. After concerted local opposition and a string of revelations on save-wye.org , the web-site I set up as a public forum to discuss Imperial’s plans, the project collapsed.\n\nYou can read this amazing saga in full for free at the foot of this article. I wrote this story because there are many other people out there who are desperate to know how Wye won where so many others failed. The answer is through luck, determination and some very single-minded people. So in some ways this isn’t a story that far from fiction at all… though every last word is true, even though I occasionally had to pinch himself when reminded of that fact.\n\nSAVED is a full length account of the true story of this campaign from its opening to close. It’s not hagiography or triumphalist, because this may be a short-lived victory. Nor does it seek to hide the mistakes that were made along the way, because one important thing we learned during this fight was that honest and openness were often the most powerful weapons the Wye campaigners had – and sometimes the only ones.\n\nI’m grateful to everyone who helped with the Wye campaign, in particular my colleague in the site, Justin Williams, without whom this story would not have had such a satisfactory ending.\n\n<strong>What people said about </strong><strong><em>Saved</em></strong>\n\nRobin Page, the countryside writer and broadcaster who was for many years the host of One Man and his Dog, says of the book...\n<blockquote>David Hewson writes thrillers. Saved is a real life thriller, exposing the sham of “local democracy”. A must for all those wanting to save their countryside and communities from the concrete mixers and the planning fixers.</blockquote>\nJonathon Porritt, the well-known environmentalist who is now Founder Director of Forum for the Future, writes...\n\nThis is a fascinating book, full of insights into the workings of local politics, new, web-based ways of campaigning, different environmental tactics, and institutions as powerful as they are unaccountable.\n\nAs a result of a wonderfully effective campaign, this little corner of an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in Kent is safe for now. But as the author himself points out, the agents of the kind of wholly unsustainable development that is still eroding our countryside will never give up and never go away. With local democracy in such a state of disrepair, in so many parts of the land, many more battles of this kind will still need to be fought.\n\nShaun Spiers, chief executive, Campaign for the Protection of Rural England, said, ‘Imperial College’s science park plan for Wye was in essence a smash and grab operation, designed to let the university cash in on its greenfield AONB landholding around a beautiful Kent village.\n\nThat it failed was largely thanks to the website save-wye, the brief but gripping history of which is chronicled in this book. We in CPRE were delighted to offer the local campaigners help and support.\n\nThere is much in Saved to worry countryside campaigners, but also much to cheer them. The role of the local council is depressing, as is the failure of most local media to question the developer’s official line.\n\nYet the book also shows that schemes such as Wye Park can be defeated, however impressive their official backing, and that journalism and the democratic process in their truest forms can triumph when the established media and body politic have gone bad.’\n\nProfessor Roy Greenslade, former editor of the Daily Mirror, and now Professor of Journalism at City University, London, and one of the country’s leading media commentators, has kindly contributed the foreword to the book.\n\nIn it he writes, ‘…this is not a story about Nimbyism. It is about right versus wrong; about transparency versus secrecy; about truth versus lies; about democracy versus authoritarianism.’','Saved','','inherit','open','open','','3332-autosave','','','2011-03-12 08:06:38','2011-03-12 08:06:38','',3332,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/3332-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(7750,1,'2011-03-11 16:06:13','2011-03-11 16:06:13','<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Cellini.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7751\" title=\"Cellini\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Cellini-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"191\" /></a>Meet <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Benvenuto Cellini\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benvenuto_Cellini\">Benvenuto Cellini</a>. Born in Florence in 1500. Died there in 1571. What an absolute bastard. Brilliant sculptor and goldsmith, not bad as a painter, musician and soldier either. And a monster through and through, something which comes across very neatly in his art.\n\nCellini\'s first name means, of course, welcome, and that\'s what he does a lot of today, through the statue you see here which sits midway along the Ponte Vecchio and always has a bunch of tourists photographing it. There\'s also a fashion for lovers to write their name on padlocks and snap them onto the statue railings (which will cost you a 160 euro fine if you\'re nabbed). I always wonder if they\'d be so keen if they knew what the man was like.\n\n\n<!--more-->\nHis best-known creation gets a lot of photographs too. That’s the shocking statue of Perseus with the head of Medusa which stands in the Loggia dei Lanzi in the Piazza della Signoria. There\'s a little gallery of some shots of this astonishing work at the foot of this article. Boy is it compelling. A muscular Perseus stands tall and proud, his foot on the naked body of the Gorgon, entrails spewing from her severed neck. Her head is firm in his hand, the sword he\'s used by his side.\n\nClose up though she is no monster. She\'s a woman and her dead body is very beautiful. She could be Perseus\'s sister or wife. Cellini knew a lot about violence towards women. He murdered his own wife after catching her with a man Cellini wanted to sleep with himself. Just one foul deed in a life that was full of them. How do we know? <em>Cellini told us. </em>He wrote an astonishing biography -- you can download it from <a href=\"http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4028\" target=\"_blank\">Project Gutenberg here</a> -- in which he confesses everything. Murder, rape, thuggery, even black magic. How this chap isn\'t better known as the dark hero of a comic book or some savage thriller is beyond me (no, I\'m not writing it -- take the idea for free).\n\nHe was an arrogant sod. He etched his name on Perseus\' belt as you can see below. He also placed his face on the back of the warrior\'s helmet, making the hair his own beard. I hope you can just about see this below -- it\'s not easy to spot given how high the statue is set.\n\nBack during the Second World War he got a visit from a couple of fellow bastards. Mussolini invited Hitler to Florence and built some special viewing windows halfway across the Ponte Vecchio so that the Nazi leader could enjoy the view. Again you can see them below. So one day in 1944 or so Hitler and Mussolini sat there looking down at a monster from the 16th century.\n\nNot that either of them left us anything as beautiful as Perseus, or some of Cellini\'s other remaining works. And that autobiography too, which is very readable given its age.\n\n[gallery link=\"file\"]\n\n \n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><img class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=6607125b-ef07-4fa9-97bd-eb7cc7359a6b\" alt=\"\" /></div>','A real-life monster of Florence','','publish','open','open','','a-real-life-monster-of-florence','','','2011-03-11 16:23:45','2011-03-11 16:23:45','',0,'http://davidhewson.com/?p=7750',0,'post','',0),(7751,1,'2011-03-11 15:47:16','2011-03-11 15:47:16','','Cellini','Cellini on the Ponte Vecchio','inherit','open','open','','exif_jpeg_picture','','','2011-03-11 15:47:16','2011-03-11 15:47:16','',7750,'http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Cellini.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(7752,1,'2011-03-11 15:50:53','2011-03-11 15:50:53','<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Cellini.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7751\" title=\"Cellini\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Cellini-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"191\" /></a>Meet <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Benvenuto Cellini\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benvenuto_Cellini\">Benvenuto Cellini</a>. Born in Florence in 1500. Died there in 1571. What an absolute bastard. Brilliant sculptor and goldsmith, not bad as a painter, musician and soldier either. And a monster through and through, something which comes across very neatly in his art.\n\nCellini\'s first name means, of course, welcome, and that\'s what he does a lot of today, through the statue you see here which sits midway along the Ponte Vecchio and always has a bunch of tourists photographing it. I always wonder if they\'d be so keen if they knew what the man was like.\n\nHis best-known creation gets a lot of photographs too. That’s the shocking statue of Perseus with the head of Medusa which stands in the Loggia dei Lanzi in the Piazza della Signoria. There\'s a little gallery of some shots of this astonishing work at the foot of this article. Boy is it compelling. A muscular Perseus stands tall and proud, his foot on the naked body of the Gorgon, entrails spewing from her severed neck. Her head is firm in his hand, the sword he\'s used by his side.\n\nClose up though she is no monster. She\'s a woman and her dead body is very beaut\n\n&nbsp;\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><img class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=6607125b-ef07-4fa9-97bd-eb7cc7359a6b\" alt=\"\" /></div>','A real-life monster of Florence','','inherit','open','open','','7750-revision','','','2011-03-11 15:50:53','2011-03-11 15:50:53','',7750,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7750-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(7753,1,'2011-03-11 15:52:14','2011-03-11 15:52:14','','Exif_JPEG_PICTURE','Perseus with Celllini\'s name on his belt','inherit','open','open','','exif_jpeg_picture-2','','','2011-03-11 15:52:14','2011-03-11 15:52:14','',7750,'http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Cellini-1.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(7754,1,'2011-03-11 15:52:25','2011-03-11 15:52:25','','Exif_JPEG_PICTURE','Perseus','inherit','open','open','','exif_jpeg_picture-3','','','2011-03-11 15:52:25','2011-03-11 15:52:25','',7750,'http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Cellini-2.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(7755,1,'2011-03-11 15:52:36','2011-03-11 15:52:36','','Exif_JPEG_PICTURE','','inherit','open','open','','exif_jpeg_picture-4','','','2011-03-11 15:52:36','2011-03-11 15:52:36','',7750,'http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Cellini-3.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(7756,1,'2011-03-11 15:52:47','2011-03-11 15:52:47','','Exif_JPEG_PICTURE','Perseus','inherit','open','open','','exif_jpeg_picture-5','','','2011-03-11 15:52:47','2011-03-11 15:52:47','',7750,'http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Cellini-4.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(7757,1,'2011-03-11 15:52:58','2011-03-11 15:52:58','','Exif_JPEG_PICTURE','Lovers\' locks by Cellini\'s statue','inherit','open','open','','exif_jpeg_picture-6','','','2011-03-11 15:52:58','2011-03-11 15:52:58','',7750,'http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Cellini-5.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(7758,1,'2011-03-11 15:53:09','2011-03-11 15:53:09','','Exif_JPEG_PICTURE','Mussolini\'s window','inherit','open','open','','exif_jpeg_picture-7','','','2011-03-11 15:53:09','2011-03-11 15:53:09','',7750,'http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Cellini-6.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(7759,1,'2011-03-11 15:53:20','2011-03-11 15:53:20','','Exif_JPEG_PICTURE','Perseus','inherit','open','open','','exif_jpeg_picture-8','','','2011-03-11 15:53:20','2011-03-11 15:53:20','',7750,'http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Cellini-7.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(7760,1,'2011-03-11 15:53:30','2011-03-11 15:53:30','','Exif_JPEG_PICTURE','Perseus','inherit','open','open','','exif_jpeg_picture-9','','','2011-03-11 15:53:30','2011-03-11 15:53:30','',7750,'http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Cellini-8.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(7761,1,'2011-03-11 15:53:39','2011-03-11 15:53:39','','Exif_JPEG_PICTURE','Cellini\'s face on the rear of the helmet','inherit','open','open','','exif_jpeg_picture-10','','','2011-03-11 15:53:39','2011-03-11 15:53:39','',7750,'http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Cellini-9.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(7762,1,'2011-03-11 15:53:50','2011-03-11 15:53:50','','Exif_JPEG_PICTURE','Perseus and the Palazzo Vecchio','inherit','open','open','','exif_jpeg_picture-13','','','2011-03-11 15:53:50','2011-03-11 15:53:50','',7750,'http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Cellini-10.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(7764,1,'2011-03-11 16:01:32','2011-03-11 16:01:32','<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Cellini.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7751\" title=\"Cellini\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Cellini-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"191\" /></a>Meet <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Benvenuto Cellini\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benvenuto_Cellini\">Benvenuto Cellini</a>. Born in Florence in 1500. Died there in 1571. What an absolute bastard. Brilliant sculptor and goldsmith, not bad as a painter, musician and soldier either. And a monster through and through, something which comes across very neatly in his art.\r\n\r\nCellini\'s first name means, of course, welcome, and that\'s what he does a lot of today, through the statue you see here which sits midway along the Ponte Vecchio and always has a bunch of tourists photographing it. I always wonder if they\'d be so keen if they knew what the man was like.\r\n\r\nHis best-known creation gets a lot of photographs too. That’s the shocking statue of Perseus with the head of Medusa which stands in the Loggia dei Lanzi in the Piazza della Signoria. There\'s a little gallery of some shots of this astonishing work at the foot of this article. Boy is it compelling. A muscular Perseus stands tall and proud, his foot on the naked body of the Gorgon, entrails spewing from her severed neck. Her head is firm in his hand, the sword he\'s used by his side.\r\n\r\nClose up though she is no monster. She\'s a woman and her dead body is very beautiful. She could be Perseus\'s sister or wife. Cellini knew a lot about violence towards women. He murdered his own wife after catching her with a man Cellini wanted to sleep with himself. Just one foul deed in a life that was full of them. How do we know? <em>Cellini told us. </em>He wrote an astonishing biography -- you can download it from <a href=\"http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4028\" target=\"_blank\">Project Gutenberg here</a> -- in which he confesses everything. Murder, rape, thuggery, even black magic. How this chap isn\'t better known as the dark hero of a comic book or some savage thriller is beyond me (no, I\'m not writing -- take the idea for free).\r\n\r\nLet\'s take a look at Perseus and Medusa\r\n\r\n[gallery link=\"file\"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><img class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=6607125b-ef07-4fa9-97bd-eb7cc7359a6b\" alt=\"\" /></div>','A real-life monster of Florence','','inherit','open','open','','7750-revision-3','','','2011-03-11 16:01:32','2011-03-11 16:01:32','',7750,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7750-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(7763,1,'2011-03-11 15:57:36','2011-03-11 15:57:36','<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Cellini.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7751\" title=\"Cellini\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Cellini-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"191\" /></a>Meet <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Benvenuto Cellini\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benvenuto_Cellini\">Benvenuto Cellini</a>. Born in Florence in 1500. Died there in 1571. What an absolute bastard. Brilliant sculptor and goldsmith, not bad as a painter, musician and soldier either. And a monster through and through, something which comes across very neatly in his art.\n\nCellini\'s first name means, of course, welcome, and that\'s what he does a lot of today, through the statue you see here which sits midway along the Ponte Vecchio and always has a bunch of tourists photographing it. I always wonder if they\'d be so keen if they knew what the man was like.\n\nHis best-known creation gets a lot of photographs too. That’s the shocking statue of Perseus with the head of Medusa which stands in the Loggia dei Lanzi in the Piazza della Signoria. There\'s a little gallery of some shots of this astonishing work at the foot of this article. Boy is it compelling. A muscular Perseus stands tall and proud, his foot on the naked body of the Gorgon, entrails spewing from her severed neck. Her head is firm in his hand, the sword he\'s used by his side.\n\nClose up though she is no monster. She\'s a woman and her dead body is very beautiful. She could be Perseus\'s sister or wife. Cellini knew a lot about violence towards women. He murdered his own wife after catching her with a man Cellini wanted to sleep with himself. Just one foul deed in a life that was full of them. How do we know? <em>Cellini told us. </em>He wrote an astonishing biography -- you can download it from <a href=\"http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4028\" target=\"_blank\">Project Gutenberg here</a> -- in which he confesses everything. Murder, rape, thuggery, even black magic. How this chap isn\'t better known as the dark hero of a comic book or some savage thriller is beyond me (no, I\'m not writing -- take the idea for free).\n\nLet\'s take a look at Perseus and Medu\n\n<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Cellini-2.jpg\"><img class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-7754\" title=\"Exif_JPEG_PICTURE\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Cellini-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" /></a>\n\n&nbsp;\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><img class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=6607125b-ef07-4fa9-97bd-eb7cc7359a6b\" alt=\"\" /></div>','A real-life monster of Florence','','inherit','open','open','','7750-revision-2','','','2011-03-11 15:57:36','2011-03-11 15:57:36','',7750,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7750-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(7765,1,'2011-03-11 16:01:44','2011-03-11 16:01:44','<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Cellini.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7751\" title=\"Cellini\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Cellini-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"191\" /></a>Meet <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Benvenuto Cellini\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benvenuto_Cellini\">Benvenuto Cellini</a>. Born in Florence in 1500. Died there in 1571. What an absolute bastard. Brilliant sculptor and goldsmith, not bad as a painter, musician and soldier either. And a monster through and through, something which comes across very neatly in his art.\r\n\r\nCellini\'s first name means, of course, welcome, and that\'s what he does a lot of today, through the statue you see here which sits midway along the Ponte Vecchio and always has a bunch of tourists photographing it. I always wonder if they\'d be so keen if they knew what the man was like.\r\n\r\nHis best-known creation gets a lot of photographs too. That’s the shocking statue of Perseus with the head of Medusa which stands in the Loggia dei Lanzi in the Piazza della Signoria. There\'s a little gallery of some shots of this astonishing work at the foot of this article. Boy is it compelling. A muscular Perseus stands tall and proud, his foot on the naked body of the Gorgon, entrails spewing from her severed neck. Her head is firm in his hand, the sword he\'s used by his side.\r\n\r\nClose up though she is no monster. She\'s a woman and her dead body is very beautiful. She could be Perseus\'s sister or wife. Cellini knew a lot about violence towards women. He murdered his own wife after catching her with a man Cellini wanted to sleep with himself. Just one foul deed in a life that was full of them. How do we know? <em>Cellini told us. </em>He wrote an astonishing biography -- you can download it from <a href=\"http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4028\" target=\"_blank\">Project Gutenberg here</a> -- in which he confesses everything. Murder, rape, thuggery, even black magic. How this chap isn\'t better known as the dark hero of a comic book or some savage thriller is beyond me (no, I\'m not writing -- take the idea for free).\r\n\r\nLet\'s take a look at Perseus and Medusa\r\n\r\n[gallery link=\"file\"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><img class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=6607125b-ef07-4fa9-97bd-eb7cc7359a6b\" alt=\"\" /></div>','A real-life monster of Florence','','inherit','open','open','','7750-revision-4','','','2011-03-11 16:01:44','2011-03-11 16:01:44','',7750,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7750-revision-4/',0,'revision','',0),(7766,1,'2011-03-11 16:05:59','2011-03-11 16:05:59','<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Cellini.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7751\" title=\"Cellini\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Cellini-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"191\" /></a>Meet <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Benvenuto Cellini\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benvenuto_Cellini\">Benvenuto Cellini</a>. Born in Florence in 1500. Died there in 1571. What an absolute bastard. Brilliant sculptor and goldsmith, not bad as a painter, musician and soldier either. And a monster through and through, something which comes across very neatly in his art.\r\n\r\nCellini\'s first name means, of course, welcome, and that\'s what he does a lot of today, through the statue you see here which sits midway along the Ponte Vecchio and always has a bunch of tourists photographing it. There\'s also a fashion for lovers to write their name on padlocks and snap them onto the statue railings (which will cost you a 160 euro fine if you\'re nabbed). I always wonder if they\'d be so keen if they knew what the man was like.\r\n\r\nHis best-known creation gets a lot of photographs too. That’s the shocking statue of Perseus with the head of Medusa which stands in the Loggia dei Lanzi in the Piazza della Signoria. There\'s a little gallery of some shots of this astonishing work at the foot of this article. Boy is it compelling. A muscular Perseus stands tall and proud, his foot on the naked body of the Gorgon, entrails spewing from her severed neck. Her head is firm in his hand, the sword he\'s used by his side.\r\n\r\nClose up though she is no monster. She\'s a woman and her dead body is very beautiful. She could be Perseus\'s sister or wife. Cellini knew a lot about violence towards women. He murdered his own wife after catching her with a man Cellini wanted to sleep with himself. Just one foul deed in a life that was full of them. How do we know? <em>Cellini told us. </em>He wrote an astonishing biography -- you can download it from <a href=\"http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4028\" target=\"_blank\">Project Gutenberg here</a> -- in which he confesses everything. Murder, rape, thuggery, even black magic. How this chap isn\'t better known as the dark hero of a comic book or some savage thriller is beyond me (no, I\'m not writing -- take the idea for free).\r\n\r\nHe was an arrogant sod. He etched his name on Perseus\' belt as you can see below. He also placed his face on the back of the warrior\'s helmet, making the hair his own beard. I hope you can just about see this below -- it\'s not easy to spot given how high the statue is set.\r\n\r\nBack during the Second World War he got a visit from a couple of fellow bastards. Mussolini invited Hitler to Florence and built some special viewing windows halfway across the Ponte Vecchio so that the Nazi leader could enjoy the view. Again you can see them below. So one day in 1944 or so Hitler and Mussolini sat there looking down and looking at a monster from the 16th century.\r\n\r\nNot that either of them left us anything as beautiful as Perseus, or some of Cellini\'s other remaining works. And that autobiography too, which is very readable given its age.\r\n\r\n[gallery link=\"file\"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><img class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=6607125b-ef07-4fa9-97bd-eb7cc7359a6b\" alt=\"\" /></div>','A real-life monster of Florence','','inherit','open','open','','7750-revision-5','','','2011-03-11 16:05:59','2011-03-11 16:05:59','',7750,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7750-revision-5/',0,'revision','',0),(7767,1,'2011-03-11 16:06:13','2011-03-11 16:06:13','<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Cellini.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7751\" title=\"Cellini\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Cellini-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"191\" /></a>Meet <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Benvenuto Cellini\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benvenuto_Cellini\">Benvenuto Cellini</a>. Born in Florence in 1500. Died there in 1571. What an absolute bastard. Brilliant sculptor and goldsmith, not bad as a painter, musician and soldier either. And a monster through and through, something which comes across very neatly in his art.\r\n\r\nCellini\'s first name means, of course, welcome, and that\'s what he does a lot of today, through the statue you see here which sits midway along the Ponte Vecchio and always has a bunch of tourists photographing it. There\'s also a fashion for lovers to write their name on padlocks and snap them onto the statue railings (which will cost you a 160 euro fine if you\'re nabbed). I always wonder if they\'d be so keen if they knew what the man was like.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->His best-known creation gets a lot of photographs too. That’s the shocking statue of Perseus with the head of Medusa which stands in the Loggia dei Lanzi in the Piazza della Signoria. There\'s a little gallery of some shots of this astonishing work at the foot of this article. Boy is it compelling. A muscular Perseus stands tall and proud, his foot on the naked body of the Gorgon, entrails spewing from her severed neck. Her head is firm in his hand, the sword he\'s used by his side.\r\n\r\nClose up though she is no monster. She\'s a woman and her dead body is very beautiful. She could be Perseus\'s sister or wife. Cellini knew a lot about violence towards women. He murdered his own wife after catching her with a man Cellini wanted to sleep with himself. Just one foul deed in a life that was full of them. How do we know? <em>Cellini told us. </em>He wrote an astonishing biography -- you can download it from <a href=\"http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4028\" target=\"_blank\">Project Gutenberg here</a> -- in which he confesses everything. Murder, rape, thuggery, even black magic. How this chap isn\'t better known as the dark hero of a comic book or some savage thriller is beyond me (no, I\'m not writing -- take the idea for free).\r\n\r\nHe was an arrogant sod. He etched his name on Perseus\' belt as you can see below. He also placed his face on the back of the warrior\'s helmet, making the hair his own beard. I hope you can just about see this below -- it\'s not easy to spot given how high the statue is set.\r\n\r\nBack during the Second World War he got a visit from a couple of fellow bastards. Mussolini invited Hitler to Florence and built some special viewing windows halfway across the Ponte Vecchio so that the Nazi leader could enjoy the view. Again you can see them below. So one day in 1944 or so Hitler and Mussolini sat there looking down and looking at a monster from the 16th century.\r\n\r\nNot that either of them left us anything as beautiful as Perseus, or some of Cellini\'s other remaining works. And that autobiography too, which is very readable given its age.\r\n\r\n[gallery link=\"file\"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><img class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=6607125b-ef07-4fa9-97bd-eb7cc7359a6b\" alt=\"\" /></div>','A real-life monster of Florence','','inherit','open','open','','7750-revision-6','','','2011-03-11 16:06:13','2011-03-11 16:06:13','',7750,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7750-revision-6/',0,'revision','',0),(7770,1,'2011-03-11 16:22:56','2011-03-11 16:22:56','<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Cellini.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7751\" title=\"Cellini\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Cellini-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"191\" /></a>Meet <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Benvenuto Cellini\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benvenuto_Cellini\">Benvenuto Cellini</a>. Born in Florence in 1500. Died there in 1571. What an absolute bastard. Brilliant sculptor and goldsmith, not bad as a painter, musician and soldier either. And a monster through and through, something which comes across very neatly in his art.\n\nCellini\'s first name means, of course, welcome, and that\'s what he does a lot of today, through the statue you see here which sits midway along the Ponte Vecchio and always has a bunch of tourists photographing it. There\'s also a fashion for lovers to write their name on padlocks and snap them onto the statue railings (which will cost you a 160 euro fine if you\'re nabbed). I always wonder if they\'d be so keen if they knew what the man was like.\n\n\n<!--more-->\nHis best-known creation gets a lot of photographs too. That’s the shocking statue of Perseus with the head of Medusa which stands in the Loggia dei Lanzi in the Piazza della Signoria. There\'s a little gallery of some shots of this astonishing work at the foot of this article. Boy is it compelling. A muscular Perseus stands tall and proud, his foot on the naked body of the Gorgon, entrails spewing from her severed neck. Her head is firm in his hand, the sword he\'s used by his side.\n\nClose up though she is no monster. She\'s a woman and her dead body is very beautiful. She could be Perseus\'s sister or wife. Cellini knew a lot about violence towards women. He murdered his own wife after catching her with a man Cellini wanted to sleep with himself. Just one foul deed in a life that was full of them. How do we know? <em>Cellini told us. </em>He wrote an astonishing biography -- you can download it from <a href=\"http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4028\" target=\"_blank\">Project Gutenberg here</a> -- in which he confesses everything. Murder, rape, thuggery, even black magic. How this chap isn\'t better known as the dark hero of a comic book or some savage thriller is beyond me (no, I\'m not writing it -- take the idea for free).\n\nHe was an arrogant sod. He etched his name on Perseus\' belt as you can see below. He also placed his face on the back of the warrior\'s helmet, making the hair his own beard. I hope you can just about see this below -- it\'s not easy to spot given how high the statue is set.\n\nJust before the Second World War he got a visit from a couple of fellow bastards. Mussolini invited Hitler to Florence and built some special viewing windows halfway across the Ponte Vecchio so that the Nazi leader could enjoy the view. Again you can see them below. So one day in 1938 Hitler and Mussolini sat there looking down and looking at a monster from the 16th century.\n\nNot that either of them left us anything as beautiful as Perseus, or some of Cellini\'s other remaining works. And that autobiography too, which is very readable given its age.\n\n[gallery link=\"file\"]\n\n \n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><img class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=6607125b-ef07-4fa9-97bd-eb7cc7359a6b\" alt=\"\" /></div>','A real-life monster of Florence','','inherit','open','open','','7750-revision-8','','','2011-03-11 16:22:56','2011-03-11 16:22:56','',7750,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7750-revision-8/',0,'revision','',0),(7768,1,'2011-03-11 16:08:09','2011-03-11 16:08:09','<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Cellini.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7751\" title=\"Cellini\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Cellini-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"191\" /></a>Meet <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Benvenuto Cellini\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benvenuto_Cellini\">Benvenuto Cellini</a>. Born in Florence in 1500. Died there in 1571. What an absolute bastard. Brilliant sculptor and goldsmith, not bad as a painter, musician and soldier either. And a monster through and through, something which comes across very neatly in his art.\n\nCellini\'s first name means, of course, welcome, and that\'s what he does a lot of today, through the statue you see here which sits midway along the Ponte Vecchio and always has a bunch of tourists photographing it. There\'s also a fashion for lovers to write their name on padlocks and snap them onto the statue railings (which will cost you a 160 euro fine if you\'re nabbed). I always wonder if they\'d be so keen if they knew what the man was like.\n\n<!--more-->His best-known creation gets a lot of photographs too. That’s the shocking statue of Perseus with the head of Medusa which stands in the Loggia dei Lanzi in the Piazza della Signoria. There\'s a little gallery of some shots of this astonishing work at the foot of this article. Boy is it compelling. A muscular Perseus stands tall and proud, his foot on the naked body of the Gorgon, entrails spewing from her severed neck. Her head is firm in his hand, the sword he\'s used by his side.\n\nClose up though she is no monster. She\'s a woman and her dead body is very beautiful. She could be Perseus\'s sister or wife. Cellini knew a lot about violence towards women. He murdered his own wife after catching her with a man Cellini wanted to sleep with himself. Just one foul deed in a life that was full of them. How do we know? <em>Cellini told us. </em>He wrote an astonishing biography -- you can download it from <a href=\"http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4028\" target=\"_blank\">Project Gutenberg here</a> -- in which he confesses everything. Murder, rape, thuggery, even black magic. How this chap isn\'t better known as the dark hero of a comic book or some savage thriller is beyond me (no, I\'m not writing it -- take the idea for free).\n\nHe was an arrogant sod. He etched his name on Perseus\' belt as you can see below. He also placed his face on the back of the warrior\'s helmet, making the hair his own beard. I hope you can just about see this below -- it\'s not easy to spot given how high the statue is set.\n\nBack during the Second World War he got a visit from a couple of fellow bastards. Mussolini invited Hitler to Florence and built some special viewing windows halfway across the Ponte Vecchio so that the Nazi leader could enjoy the view. Again you can see them below. So one day in 1944 or so Hitler and Mussolini sat there looking down and looking at a monster from the 16th century.\n\nNot that either of them left us anything as beautiful as Perseus, or some of Cellini\'s other remaining works. And that autobiography too, which is very readable given its age.\n\n[gallery link=\"file\"]\n\n&nbsp;\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><img class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=6607125b-ef07-4fa9-97bd-eb7cc7359a6b\" alt=\"\" /></div>','A real-life monster of Florence','','inherit','open','open','','7750-autosave','','','2011-03-11 16:08:09','2011-03-11 16:08:09','',7750,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7750-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),(7769,1,'2011-03-11 16:07:04','2011-03-11 16:07:04','<a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Cellini.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7751\" title=\"Cellini\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Cellini-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"191\" /></a>Meet <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Benvenuto Cellini\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benvenuto_Cellini\">Benvenuto Cellini</a>. Born in Florence in 1500. Died there in 1571. What an absolute bastard. Brilliant sculptor and goldsmith, not bad as a painter, musician and soldier either. And a monster through and through, something which comes across very neatly in his art.\r\n\r\nCellini\'s first name means, of course, welcome, and that\'s what he does a lot of today, through the statue you see here which sits midway along the Ponte Vecchio and always has a bunch of tourists photographing it. There\'s also a fashion for lovers to write their name on padlocks and snap them onto the statue railings (which will cost you a 160 euro fine if you\'re nabbed). I always wonder if they\'d be so keen if they knew what the man was like.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->His best-known creation gets a lot of photographs too. That’s the shocking statue of Perseus with the head of Medusa which stands in the Loggia dei Lanzi in the Piazza della Signoria. There\'s a little gallery of some shots of this astonishing work at the foot of this article. Boy is it compelling. A muscular Perseus stands tall and proud, his foot on the naked body of the Gorgon, entrails spewing from her severed neck. Her head is firm in his hand, the sword he\'s used by his side.\r\n\r\nClose up though she is no monster. She\'s a woman and her dead body is very beautiful. She could be Perseus\'s sister or wife. Cellini knew a lot about violence towards women. He murdered his own wife after catching her with a man Cellini wanted to sleep with himself. Just one foul deed in a life that was full of them. How do we know? <em>Cellini told us. </em>He wrote an astonishing biography -- you can download it from <a href=\"http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4028\" target=\"_blank\">Project Gutenberg here</a> -- in which he confesses everything. Murder, rape, thuggery, even black magic. How this chap isn\'t better known as the dark hero of a comic book or some savage thriller is beyond me (no, I\'m not writing it -- take the idea for free).\r\n\r\nHe was an arrogant sod. He etched his name on Perseus\' belt as you can see below. He also placed his face on the back of the warrior\'s helmet, making the hair his own beard. I hope you can just about see this below -- it\'s not easy to spot given how high the statue is set.\r\n\r\nBack during the Second World War he got a visit from a couple of fellow bastards. Mussolini invited Hitler to Florence and built some special viewing windows halfway across the Ponte Vecchio so that the Nazi leader could enjoy the view. Again you can see them below. So one day in 1944 or so Hitler and Mussolini sat there looking down and looking at a monster from the 16th century.\r\n\r\nNot that either of them left us anything as beautiful as Perseus, or some of Cellini\'s other remaining works. And that autobiography too, which is very readable given its age.\r\n\r\n[gallery link=\"file\"]\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><img class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=6607125b-ef07-4fa9-97bd-eb7cc7359a6b\" alt=\"\" /></div>','A real-life monster of Florence','','inherit','open','open','','7750-revision-7','','','2011-03-11 16:07:04','2011-03-11 16:07:04','',7750,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7750-revision-7/',0,'revision','',0),(7771,1,'2011-03-11 13:41:51','2011-03-11 13:41:51','<em><a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/steal.jpg\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-7742 alignright\" title=\"steal\" src=\"http://davidhewson.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/steal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" /></a>This article can be copied and reused anywhere without prior permission.</em>\r\n\r\nThe world is embracing the ebook at an astonishing pace. Most of us who write for a living welcome this. It means new opportunities for authors and readers alike. It means you can carry lots of books in a single, light device. With some systems you can do clever things such as sharing comments and even lending books to your friends.\r\n\r\nEveryone who works in publishing -- as writers, editors, designers, in sales and marketing -- wants you to make the most of that new gadget, and to understand how it fits into the world of books. So this is an attempt to set down a few facts about this fast-changing medium.\r\n\r\n<strong>Price</strong>\r\n\r\nEbook prices have been in flux, mainly due to the speed at which ereaders have taken off. There was a time when ebooks were sometimes more expensive than their print equivalent. This rarely happens now. If you look on Amazon you\'ll usually find they are slightly lower in price than the print book. Prices still usually follow the cycle of paper publishing. So the original ebook price will be based on the hardback cost, and will fall when the paperback comes out. To use my own work as an example, my current hardback, <em>The Fallen Angel,</em> costs £7.99 at Amazon UK and £7.19 for the Kindle edition. My current paperback, <em>The Blue Demon, </em>lists at £4.19 while the paperback is £3.98. So you save money and get the added convenience of the ebook, but don\'t, of course, have that nice book to put on the shelf. The choice is yours.\r\n\r\n<strong>Having a look before you buy</strong>\r\n\r\nYou don\'t need to commit to an ebook before buying it. In fact you can read a substantial amount of it for free, much more than you\'d get by flicking through a paper book in a shop. All main ebook systems come with a sample function. If you\'re uncertain, use it -- you may be surprised how big a chunk of the book you get (I know I was).\r\n\r\n<strong>Free out of print books</strong>\r\n\r\nBooks have a limited copyright life, one determined by different sets of laws around the world. Lots of well-known works are now out of copyright. So you can download editions of Shakespeare, Conan Doyle, Jules Verne and many other authors for nothing. A great site to find these authors is <a href=\"http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page\" target=\"_blank\">Project Gutenberg</a> which has been digitising out of print books for some time. You will also find inexpensive editions of classic books on Amazon and other stores. Often these are based on Gutenberg texts so you may want to use the original for free.\r\n\r\n<strong>Unauthorised editions</strong>\r\n\r\nThe music industry was devastated by the proliferation of piracy of MP3 files shared freely across the internet. There are similar fears that the book business will be impacted in the same way by the growing amount of stolen copyright modern books now being placed online, often as money-making ventures for the criminals behind this trade. If you\'re thinking of getting some \'free\' books this way please think again. People who love books don\'t steal them, because they know that in the end that practice will damage the livelihoods of people working in publishing, and their continuing ability to be able to afford to write. You could also find yourself the victim of fraud and theft too.\r\n\r\nHere are some fallacies about ebook theft you may encounter.\r\n\r\n<em>It\'s not really stealing.</em>\r\n\r\nPeople who obtain illicit books on the internet try to justify their actions in many different ways. They call themselves \'pirates\' or \'file sharers\'. They will say, \'But I wouldn\'t have bought the book if I had to pay for it.\' Or, \'If I like the book I got for free it makes it more likely I\'ll tell my friends and buy the next one.\' Don\'t fall for these excuses. People who rip off ebooks are taking something of value without paying for it. That\'s stealing.\r\n\r\n<em>It\'s not a big problem</em>\r\n\r\nAlmost every commercial ebook now published is available in ripped-off form, and many popular audiobooks. <a title=\"Another insight into how book thieves work\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/2011/02/another-insight-into-how-book-thieves-work/\">One \'file sharing\' site alone</a> has more than 300,000 registered users, who frequently share stolen books among each other and give themselves \'rewards\' for new titles.\r\n\r\n<em>Authors don\'t need the money anyway.</em>\r\n\r\nSome of us don\'t. But most authors don\'t earn much at all. For many writing is a second job while something else pays the bills. Book theft deprives them and the employees of their publishing house of income. Musicians who lost their sales income through mp3 ripoffs could try to replace it with concerts and merchandise sales. Authors have none of those opportunities. Their principal source of income comes from the sale of a book.\r\n\r\n<em>If you just made the books cheaper I\'d buy instead of stealing.</em>\r\n\r\nHow cheap does a book have to be? As we\'ve already said, ebooks are, in most instances, cheaper than their paper equivalent. In many large markets book prices have fallen considerably over the last decade. A mainstream ebook can now be had for £3 to £4 in the UK, which is cheaper than an equivalent book cost twenty years ago.\r\n\r\n<em>If you object to book piracy you should also object to libraries and second hand book sales.</em>\r\n\r\nLibraries buy books, and in many countries pay a public lending right to authors, a small sum based on the number of times a title is lent. Second hand book sales are of one copy alone. Digital books can be \'duplicated\' a million times at no cost. A second hand sale on eBay is not the same as uploading a file to a torrent site that serves hundreds of thousands of users.\r\n\r\n<em>Book torrent sites are run by book fans who are just giving out free advertising for authors. You should be grateful instead of moaning.</em>\r\n\r\n<em>Not so. </em>As a<a title=\"The criminals behind intellectual property theft\" href=\"http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/the-criminals-behind-intellectual-property-theft/\"> report from the US International Intellectual Property Alliance</a> details, media piracy is big business, controlled by organised crime rings in many parts of the world. There are vast profits to be made here as intellectual property moves into the digital medium and can be hidden around the world, then served up from sites based in countries without enforceable copyright laws. This is about money: getting a subscription out of you in return for access to all that stolen material. Do you want to give your credit card details to a criminal gang? Then sign up for one of those torrent sites.\r\n\r\n<em>Why don\'t you cut out the publishers altogether and sell your books direct over the internet yourself, at a lower price?</em>\r\n\r\nPrice is very obviously not the issue here. Some authors are going the direct route, especially with their backlist titles. But it\'s a fallacy to think that a book goes from manuscript to finished title without any intermediate processes. Professional publishing involves several sets of professional editing and creative input that helps an author produce a better book. Even if a writer wants to sell direct, a wise one will still factor in the cost of external editing, marketing and design. Just taking out the printing process and the publisher does not change the fundamental economics of the business. Self published authors are just as likely to be victims of ebook theft as anyone else.\r\n\r\n<strong>In short...</strong>\r\n\r\nThe digital book revolution is a great thing. It makes it easier and cheaper to read and buy books than ever before. You can try before you buy and you can still go back to paper when you want to. But the phenomenal growth of digital book theft is a threat to the modest income many writers rely on. There are individuals out there who rip off copyright work -- books, software, movies and music -- out of some kind of warped principle. They don\'t want to pay for other people\'s intellectual property and never will.\r\n\r\nAuthors are never going to win that battle. So we\'re relying on the vast majority of honest book buyers to support the writing community. Use the established sites. Download samples. See what you like. And then, please, buy it, don\'t steal it.','Got a new ereader? Some things you ought to know...','','inherit','open','open','','7736-revision-12','','','2011-03-11 13:41:51','2011-03-11 13:41:51','',7736,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7736-revision-12/',0,'revision','',0),(7773,1,'2011-01-28 14:26:53','2011-01-28 14:26:53','<h4><a rel=\"external\" href=\"http://www.scribd.com/doc/4074917/Saved-by-David-Hewson\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3439 noborder\" title=\"saved\" src=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/saved.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"341\" />Read this book for free now on Scribd</a></h4>\r\nI thought my journalism days were behind me. But sometimes life has a habit of turning things around in ways you least expect. In December 2005 I was in Rome researching what was to become <em>The Garden of Evil</em>. Out of the blue I took a phone call which revealed that the large London university Imperial College had very big designs on the area where I was lucky enough to live.\r\n\r\nThe next ten months saw an extraordinary battle by ordinary people pitched against an army of well-paid professional developers trying to turn some of the most beautiful – and protected – countryside in England over to the bulldozer. They were just ordinary citizens appalled by what was being planned, in secret and with the covert support of our own public representatives. The most extraordinary part of all is… we won. After concerted local opposition and a string of revelations on save-wye.org , the web-site I set up as a public forum to discuss Imperial’s plans, the project collapsed.\r\n\r\nYou can read this amazing saga in full for free at the foot of this article. I wrote this story because there are many other people out there who are desperate to know how Wye won where so many others failed. The answer is through luck, determination and some very single-minded people. So in some ways this isn’t a story that far from fiction at all… though every last word is true, even though I occasionally had to pinch himself when reminded of that fact.\r\n\r\nSAVED is a full length account of the true story of this campaign from its opening to close. It’s not hagiography or triumphalist, because this may be a short-lived victory. Nor does it seek to hide the mistakes that were made along the way, because one important thing we learned during this fight was that honest and openness were often the most powerful weapons the Wye campaigners had – and sometimes the only ones.\r\n\r\nI’m grateful to everyone who helped with the Wye campaign, in particular my colleague in the site, Justin Williams, without whom this story would not have had such a satisfactory ending.\r\n\r\n<strong>What people said about </strong><strong><em>Saved</em></strong>\r\n\r\nRobin Page, the countryside writer and broadcaster who was for many years the host of One Man and his Dog, says of the book, ‘David Hewson writes thrillers. Saved is a real life thriller, exposing the sham of “local democracy”. A must for all those wanting to save their countryside and communities from the concrete mixers and the planning fixers.”‘\r\n\r\nJonathon Porritt, the well-known environmentalist who is now Founder Director of Forum for the Future, writes, ‘This is a fascinating book, full of insights into the workings of local politics, new, web-based ways of campaigning, different environmental tactics, and institutions as powerful as they are unaccountable.\r\n\r\n‘As a result of a wonderfully effective campaign, this little corner of an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in Kent is safe for now. But as the author himself points out, the agents of the kind of wholly unsustainable development that is still eroding our countryside will never give up and never go away. With local democracy in such a state of disrepair, in so many parts of the land, many more battles of this kind will still need to be fought.’\r\n\r\nShaun Spiers, chief executive, Campaign for the Protection of Rural England, said, ‘Imperial College’s science park plan for Wye was in essence a smash and grab operation, designed to let the university cash in on its greenfield AONB landholding around a beautiful Kent village.\r\n\r\nThat it failed was largely thanks to the website save-wye, the brief but gripping history of which is chronicled in this book. We in CPRE were delighted to offer the local campaigners help and support.\r\n\r\nThere is much in Saved to worry countryside campaigners, but also much to cheer them. The role of the local council is depressing, as is the failure of most local media to question the developer’s official line.\r\n\r\nYet the book also shows that schemes such as Wye Park can be defeated, however impressive their official backing, and that journalism and the democratic process in their truest forms can triumph when the established media and body politic have gone bad.’\r\n\r\nProfessor Roy Greenslade, former editor of the Daily Mirror, and now Professor of Journalism at City University, London, and one of the country’s leading media commentators, has kindly contributed the foreword to the book.\r\n\r\nIn it he writes, ‘…this is not a story about Nimbyism. It is about right versus wrong; about transparency versus secrecy; about truth versus lies; about democracy versus authoritarianism.’','Saved','','inherit','open','open','','3332-revision','','','2011-01-28 14:26:53','2011-01-28 14:26:53','',3332,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/01/3332-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(7774,1,'2011-03-12 08:04:20','2011-03-12 08:04:20','<img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3439 noborder\" title=\"saved\" src=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/saved.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"341\" />Get this book immediately on <a href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/Saved-English-Village-Fought-Future/dp/B004RR1696/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;s=digital-text&amp;qid=1299917013&amp;sr=8-2\" target=\"_blank\">Kindle UK</a> for 86p\r\n\r\nI thought my journalism days were behind me. But sometimes life has a habit of turning things around in ways you least expect. In December 2005 I was in Rome researching what was to become <em>The Garden of Evil</em>. Out of the blue I took a phone call which revealed that the large London university Imperial College had very big designs on the area where I was lucky enough to live.\r\n\r\nThe next ten months saw an extraordinary battle by ordinary people pitched against an army of well-paid professional developers trying to turn some of the most beautiful – and protected – countryside in England over to the bulldozer. They were just ordinary citizens appalled by what was being planned, in secret and with the covert support of our own public representatives. The most extraordinary part of all is… we won. After concerted local opposition and a string of revelations on save-wye.org , the web-site I set up as a public forum to discuss Imperial’s plans, the project collapsed.\r\n\r\nYou can read this amazing saga in full for free at the foot of this article. I wrote this story because there are many other people out there who are desperate to know how Wye won where so many others failed. The answer is through luck, determination and some very single-minded people. So in some ways this isn’t a story that far from fiction at all… though every last word is true, even though I occasionally had to pinch himself when reminded of that fact.\r\n\r\nSAVED is a full length account of the true story of this campaign from its opening to close. It’s not hagiography or triumphalist, because this may be a short-lived victory. Nor does it seek to hide the mistakes that were made along the way, because one important thing we learned during this fight was that honest and openness were often the most powerful weapons the Wye campaigners had – and sometimes the only ones.\r\n\r\nI’m grateful to everyone who helped with the Wye campaign, in particular my colleague in the site, Justin Williams, without whom this story would not have had such a satisfactory ending.\r\n\r\n<strong>What people said about </strong><strong><em>Saved</em></strong>\r\n\r\nRobin Page, the countryside writer and broadcaster who was for many years the host of One Man and his Dog, says of the book, ‘David Hewson writes thrillers. Saved is a real life thriller, exposing the sham of “local democracy”. A must for all those wanting to save their countryside and communities from the concrete mixers and the planning fixers.”‘\r\n\r\nJonathon Porritt, the well-known environmentalist who is now Founder Director of Forum for the Future, writes, ‘This is a fascinating book, full of insights into the workings of local politics, new, web-based ways of campaigning, different environmental tactics, and institutions as powerful as they are unaccountable.\r\n\r\n‘As a result of a wonderfully effective campaign, this little corner of an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in Kent is safe for now. But as the author himself points out, the agents of the kind of wholly unsustainable development that is still eroding our countryside will never give up and never go away. With local democracy in such a state of disrepair, in so many parts of the land, many more battles of this kind will still need to be fought.’\r\n\r\nShaun Spiers, chief executive, Campaign for the Protection of Rural England, said, ‘Imperial College’s science park plan for Wye was in essence a smash and grab operation, designed to let the university cash in on its greenfield AONB landholding around a beautiful Kent village.\r\n\r\nThat it failed was largely thanks to the website save-wye, the brief but gripping history of which is chronicled in this book. We in CPRE were delighted to offer the local campaigners help and support.\r\n\r\nThere is much in Saved to worry countryside campaigners, but also much to cheer them. The role of the local council is depressing, as is the failure of most local media to question the developer’s official line.\r\n\r\nYet the book also shows that schemes such as Wye Park can be defeated, however impressive their official backing, and that journalism and the democratic process in their truest forms can triumph when the established media and body politic have gone bad.’\r\n\r\nProfessor Roy Greenslade, former editor of the Daily Mirror, and now Professor of Journalism at City University, London, and one of the country’s leading media commentators, has kindly contributed the foreword to the book.\r\n\r\nIn it he writes, ‘…this is not a story about Nimbyism. It is about right versus wrong; about transparency versus secrecy; about truth versus lies; about democracy versus authoritarianism.’','Saved','','inherit','open','open','','3332-revision-2','','','2011-03-12 08:04:20','2011-03-12 08:04:20','',3332,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/3332-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(7775,1,'2011-03-12 08:05:14','2011-03-12 08:05:14','<img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3439 noborder\" title=\"saved\" src=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/saved.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"341\" />Get this book immediately on <a href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/Saved-English-Village-Fought-Future/dp/B004RR1696/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;s=digital-text&amp;qid=1299917013&amp;sr=8-2\" target=\"_blank\">Kindle UK</a> for 86p and on Kindle US for $1.40\r\n\r\nI thought my journalism days were behind me. But sometimes life has a habit of turning things around in ways you least expect. In December 2005 I was in Rome researching what was to become <em>The Garden of Evil</em>. Out of the blue I took a phone call which revealed that the large London university Imperial College had very big designs on the area where I was lucky enough to live.\r\n\r\nThe next ten months saw an extraordinary battle by ordinary people pitched against an army of well-paid professional developers trying to turn some of the most beautiful – and protected – countryside in England over to the bulldozer. They were just ordinary citizens appalled by what was being planned, in secret and with the covert support of our own public representatives. The most extraordinary part of all is… we won. After concerted local opposition and a string of revelations on save-wye.org , the web-site I set up as a public forum to discuss Imperial’s plans, the project collapsed.\r\n\r\nYou can read this amazing saga in full for free at the foot of this article. I wrote this story because there are many other people out there who are desperate to know how Wye won where so many others failed. The answer is through luck, determination and some very single-minded people. So in some ways this isn’t a story that far from fiction at all… though every last word is true, even though I occasionally had to pinch himself when reminded of that fact.\r\n\r\nSAVED is a full length account of the true story of this campaign from its opening to close. It’s not hagiography or triumphalist, because this may be a short-lived victory. Nor does it seek to hide the mistakes that were made along the way, because one important thing we learned during this fight was that honest and openness were often the most powerful weapons the Wye campaigners had – and sometimes the only ones.\r\n\r\nI’m grateful to everyone who helped with the Wye campaign, in particular my colleague in the site, Justin Williams, without whom this story would not have had such a satisfactory ending.\r\n\r\n<strong>What people said about </strong><strong><em>Saved</em></strong>\r\n\r\nRobin Page, the countryside writer and broadcaster who was for many years the host of One Man and his Dog, says of the book, ‘David Hewson writes thrillers. Saved is a real life thriller, exposing the sham of “local democracy”. A must for all those wanting to save their countryside and communities from the concrete mixers and the planning fixers.”‘\r\n\r\nJonathon Porritt, the well-known environmentalist who is now Founder Director of Forum for the Future, writes, ‘This is a fascinating book, full of insights into the workings of local politics, new, web-based ways of campaigning, different environmental tactics, and institutions as powerful as they are unaccountable.\r\n\r\n‘As a result of a wonderfully effective campaign, this little corner of an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in Kent is safe for now. But as the author himself points out, the agents of the kind of wholly unsustainable development that is still eroding our countryside will never give up and never go away. With local democracy in such a state of disrepair, in so many parts of the land, many more battles of this kind will still need to be fought.’\r\n\r\nShaun Spiers, chief executive, Campaign for the Protection of Rural England, said, ‘Imperial College’s science park plan for Wye was in essence a smash and grab operation, designed to let the university cash in on its greenfield AONB landholding around a beautiful Kent village.\r\n\r\nThat it failed was largely thanks to the website save-wye, the brief but gripping history of which is chronicled in this book. We in CPRE were delighted to offer the local campaigners help and support.\r\n\r\nThere is much in Saved to worry countryside campaigners, but also much to cheer them. The role of the local council is depressing, as is the failure of most local media to question the developer’s official line.\r\n\r\nYet the book also shows that schemes such as Wye Park can be defeated, however impressive their official backing, and that journalism and the democratic process in their truest forms can triumph when the established media and body politic have gone bad.’\r\n\r\nProfessor Roy Greenslade, former editor of the Daily Mirror, and now Professor of Journalism at City University, London, and one of the country’s leading media commentators, has kindly contributed the foreword to the book.\r\n\r\nIn it he writes, ‘…this is not a story about Nimbyism. It is about right versus wrong; about transparency versus secrecy; about truth versus lies; about democracy versus authoritarianism.’','Saved','','inherit','open','open','','3332-revision-3','','','2011-03-12 08:05:14','2011-03-12 08:05:14','',3332,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/3332-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(7776,1,'2011-03-12 08:05:33','2011-03-12 08:05:33','<img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3439 noborder\" title=\"saved\" src=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/saved.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"341\" />Get this book immediately on <a href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/Saved-English-Village-Fought-Future/dp/B004RR1696/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;s=digital-text&amp;qid=1299917013&amp;sr=8-2\" target=\"_blank\">Kindle UK</a> for 86p and on <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Saved-English-Village-Future-ebook/dp/B004RR1696/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;m=A7B2F8DUJ88VZ&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1299917073&amp;sr=8-2\" target=\"_blank\">Kindle US</a> for $1.40\r\n\r\nI thought my journalism days were behind me. But sometimes life has a habit of turning things around in ways you least expect. In December 2005 I was in Rome researching what was to become <em>The Garden of Evil</em>. Out of the blue I took a phone call which revealed that the large London university Imperial College had very big designs on the area where I was lucky enough to live.\r\n\r\nThe next ten months saw an extraordinary battle by ordinary people pitched against an army of well-paid professional developers trying to turn some of the most beautiful – and protected – countryside in England over to the bulldozer. They were just ordinary citizens appalled by what was being planned, in secret and with the covert support of our own public representatives. The most extraordinary part of all is… we won. After concerted local opposition and a string of revelations on save-wye.org , the web-site I set up as a public forum to discuss Imperial’s plans, the project collapsed.\r\n\r\nYou can read this amazing saga in full for free at the foot of this article. I wrote this story because there are many other people out there who are desperate to know how Wye won where so many others failed. The answer is through luck, determination and some very single-minded people. So in some ways this isn’t a story that far from fiction at all… though every last word is true, even though I occasionally had to pinch himself when reminded of that fact.\r\n\r\nSAVED is a full length account of the true story of this campaign from its opening to close. It’s not hagiography or triumphalist, because this may be a short-lived victory. Nor does it seek to hide the mistakes that were made along the way, because one important thing we learned during this fight was that honest and openness were often the most powerful weapons the Wye campaigners had – and sometimes the only ones.\r\n\r\nI’m grateful to everyone who helped with the Wye campaign, in particular my colleague in the site, Justin Williams, without whom this story would not have had such a satisfactory ending.\r\n\r\n<strong>What people said about </strong><strong><em>Saved</em></strong>\r\n\r\nRobin Page, the countryside writer and broadcaster who was for many years the host of One Man and his Dog, says of the book, ‘David Hewson writes thrillers. Saved is a real life thriller, exposing the sham of “local democracy”. A must for all those wanting to save their countryside and communities from the concrete mixers and the planning fixers.”‘\r\n\r\nJonathon Porritt, the well-known environmentalist who is now Founder Director of Forum for the Future, writes, ‘This is a fascinating book, full of insights into the workings of local politics, new, web-based ways of campaigning, different environmental tactics, and institutions as powerful as they are unaccountable.\r\n\r\n‘As a result of a wonderfully effective campaign, this little corner of an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in Kent is safe for now. But as the author himself points out, the agents of the kind of wholly unsustainable development that is still eroding our countryside will never give up and never go away. With local democracy in such a state of disrepair, in so many parts of the land, many more battles of this kind will still need to be fought.’\r\n\r\nShaun Spiers, chief executive, Campaign for the Protection of Rural England, said, ‘Imperial College’s science park plan for Wye was in essence a smash and grab operation, designed to let the university cash in on its greenfield AONB landholding around a beautiful Kent village.\r\n\r\nThat it failed was largely thanks to the website save-wye, the brief but gripping history of which is chronicled in this book. We in CPRE were delighted to offer the local campaigners help and support.\r\n\r\nThere is much in Saved to worry countryside campaigners, but also much to cheer them. The role of the local council is depressing, as is the failure of most local media to question the developer’s official line.\r\n\r\nYet the book also shows that schemes such as Wye Park can be defeated, however impressive their official backing, and that journalism and the democratic process in their truest forms can triumph when the established media and body politic have gone bad.’\r\n\r\nProfessor Roy Greenslade, former editor of the Daily Mirror, and now Professor of Journalism at City University, London, and one of the country’s leading media commentators, has kindly contributed the foreword to the book.\r\n\r\nIn it he writes, ‘…this is not a story about Nimbyism. It is about right versus wrong; about transparency versus secrecy; about truth versus lies; about democracy versus authoritarianism.’','Saved','','inherit','open','open','','3332-revision-4','','','2011-03-12 08:05:33','2011-03-12 08:05:33','',3332,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/3332-revision-4/',0,'revision','',0),(7777,1,'2011-03-12 08:14:32','2011-03-12 08:14:32','<img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3439 noborder\" title=\"saved\" src=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/saved.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"341\" />Get this book immediately on <a href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/Saved-English-Village-Fought-Future/dp/B004RR1696/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;s=digital-text&amp;qid=1299917013&amp;sr=8-2\" target=\"_blank\">Kindle UK</a> for 86p and on <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Saved-English-Village-Future-ebook/dp/B004RR1696/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;m=A7B2F8DUJ88VZ&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1299917073&amp;sr=8-2\" target=\"_blank\">Kindle US</a> for $1.40\r\n\r\nBlurbed by luminaries such as Roy Greenslade, Jonathan Porritt and Robin Page, <em><a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/standalones/saved/\">Saved</a></em> is a real-life thriller, the story of a campaign to save an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in Kent from mass development.\r\n\r\nIt tells the tale of how the village skullduggery that went on behind the scenes of one of the biggest environmental battles of recent years, one which was eventually won by the raggle taggle army of campaigners fighting the obliteration of one of the most precious parts of south east England.\r\n\r\nAlready regarded as essential reading for environmental campaigners around the world, <em>Saved </em> is also a rollicking and at times hilarious account of Middle England\'s fight against bureaucracy. As countryside campaigner Robin Page puts it, \'David Hewson writes thrillers. Saved is a real life thriller, exposing the sham of “local democracy”. A must for all those wanting to save their countryside and communities from the concrete mixers and the planning fixers.\'\r\n\r\nWith a foreword by\r\n\r\nProfessor Roy Greenslade, former editor of the <em>Daily Mirror</em>, and now Professor of Journalism at City University, London, and one of the country’s leading media commentators, who writes, ‘…this is not a story about Nimbyism. It is about right versus wrong; about transparency versus secrecy; about truth versus lies; about democracy versus authoritarianism.’','Saved is now available for 86p at Kindle','','publish','open','open','','saved-is-now-available-for-86p-at-kindle','','','2011-03-12 08:17:51','2011-03-12 08:17:51','',0,'http://davidhewson.com/?p=7777',0,'post','',0),(7778,1,'2011-03-12 08:13:55','2011-03-12 08:13:55','<img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3439 noborder\" title=\"saved\" src=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/saved.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"341\" />Get this book immediately on <a href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/Saved-English-Village-Fought-Future/dp/B004RR1696/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;s=digital-text&amp;qid=1299917013&amp;sr=8-2\" target=\"_blank\">Kindle UK</a> for 86p and on <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Saved-English-Village-Future-ebook/dp/B004RR1696/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;m=A7B2F8DUJ88VZ&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1299917073&amp;sr=8-2\" target=\"_blank\">Kindle US</a> for $1.40\n\nBlurbed by luminaries such as Roy Greenslade, Jonathan Porritt and Robin Page, <em><a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/standalones/saved/\">Saved</a></em> is a real-life thriller, the story of a campaign to save an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in Kent from mass development.\n\nIt tells the tale of how the village skullduggery that went on behind the scenes of one of the biggest environmental battles of recent years, one which was eventually won by the raggle taggle army of campaigners fighting the obliteration of one of the most precious parts of south east England.\n\nAlready regarded as essential reading for environmental campaigners around the world, <em>Saved </em> is also a rollicking and at times hilarious account of Middle England\'s fight against bureaucracy. As countryside campaigner Robin Page puts it, \'David Hewson writes thrillers. Saved is a real life thriller, exposing the sham of “local democracy”. A must for all those wanting to save their countryside and communities from the concrete mixers and the planning fixers.\'\n\nWith a foreword by Roy Greenslade, former editor of the <em>Daily Mirror</em>, now','Saved is now available for 86p at Kindle','','inherit','open','open','','7777-revision','','','2011-03-12 08:13:55','2011-03-12 08:13:55','',7777,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7777-revision/',0,'revision','',0),(7779,1,'2011-03-12 08:14:32','2011-03-12 08:14:32','<img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3439 noborder\" title=\"saved\" src=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/saved.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"341\" />Get this book immediately on <a href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/Saved-English-Village-Fought-Future/dp/B004RR1696/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;s=digital-text&amp;qid=1299917013&amp;sr=8-2\" target=\"_blank\">Kindle UK</a> for 86p and on <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Saved-English-Village-Future-ebook/dp/B004RR1696/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;m=A7B2F8DUJ88VZ&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1299917073&amp;sr=8-2\" target=\"_blank\">Kindle US</a> for $1.40\r\n\r\nBlurbed by luminaries such as Roy Greenslade, Jonathan Porritt and Robin Page, <em><a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/standalones/saved/\">Saved</a></em> is a real-life thriller, the story of a campaign to save an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in Kent from mass development.\r\n\r\nIt tells the tale of how the village skullduggery that went on behind the scenes of one of the biggest environmental battles of recent years, one which was eventually won by the raggle taggle army of campaigners fighting the obliteration of one of the most precious parts of south east England.\r\n\r\nAlready regarded as essential reading for environmental campaigners around the world, <em>Saved </em> is also a rollicking and at times hilarious account of Middle England\'s fight against bureaucracy. As countryside campaigner Robin Page puts it, \'David Hewson writes thrillers. Saved is a real life thriller, exposing the sham of “local democracy”. A must for all those wanting to save their countryside and communities from the concrete mixers and the planning fixers.\'\r\n\r\nWith a foreword by\r\n\r\nProfessor Roy Greenslade, former editor of the <em>Daily Mirror</em>, and now Professor of Journalism at City University, London, and one of the country’s leading media commentators, who writes, ‘…this is not a story about Nimbyism. It is about right versus wrong; about transparency versus secrecy; about truth versus lies; about democracy versus authoritarianism.’','Saved is now available for 86p at Kindle','','inherit','open','open','','7777-revision-2','','','2011-03-12 08:14:32','2011-03-12 08:14:32','',7777,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7777-revision-2/',0,'revision','',0),(7780,1,'2011-03-12 08:18:57','2011-03-12 08:18:57','<img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3439 noborder\" title=\"saved\" src=\"http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/saved.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"341\" />Get this book immediately on <a href=\"http://www.amazon.co.uk/Saved-English-Village-Fought-Future/dp/B004RR1696/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;s=digital-text&amp;qid=1299917013&amp;sr=8-2\" target=\"_blank\">Kindle UK</a> for 86p and on <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Saved-English-Village-Future-ebook/dp/B004RR1696/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;m=A7B2F8DUJ88VZ&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1299917073&amp;sr=8-2\" target=\"_blank\">Kindle US</a> for $1.40\n\nBlurbed by luminaries such as Roy Greenslade, Jonathan Porritt and Robin Page, <em><a href=\"http://davidhewson.com/standalones/saved/\">Saved</a></em> is a real-life thriller, the story of a campaign to save an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in Kent from mass development.\n\nIt tells the tale of how the village skullduggery that went on behind the scenes of one of the biggest environmental battles of recent years, one which was eventually won by the raggle taggle army of campaigners fighting the obliteration of one of the most precious parts of south east England.\n\nAlready regarded as essential reading for environmental campaigners around the world, <em>Saved </em> is also a rollicking and at times hilarious account of Middle England\'s fight against bureaucracy. As countryside campaigner Robin Page puts it, \'David Hewson writes thrillers. Saved is a real life thriller, exposing the sham of “local democracy”. A must for all those wanting to save their countryside and communities from the concrete mixers and the planning fixers.\'\n\nWith a foreword by\n\nProfessor Roy Greenslade, former editor of the <em>Daily Mirror</em>, and now Professor of Journalism at City University, London, and one of the country’s leading media commentators, who writes, ‘…this is not a story about Nimbyism. It is about right versus wrong; about transparency versus secrecy; about truth versus lies; about democracy versus authoritarianism.’','Saved is now available for 86p at Kindle','','inherit','open','open','','7777-autosave','','','2011-03-12 08:18:57','2011-03-12 08:18:57','',7777,'http://davidhewson.com/2011/03/7777-autosave/',0,'revision','',0),