As an author and a reader, living in Brazil, I have to be a member of Amazon.com to buy books. Amazon charge an additional $2 over the .com price for every eBook I purchase. The same is true for customers who live outside their area in places such as Australia etc. I have never really been able to find out why they make this charge. Some say that it is to cover the whispernet charges for 3G kindles, but I fail to see this as I use Kindle to Computer downloads.
If you have a kindle, or you have kindle to computer or any other such device, there is no need to buy from Amazon. This is great news if you live outside the designated area of .com, .co.uk, or .com de. If you buy through smashwords you can download a Mobi file to view on your kindle, computer or device without the additional $2 charge.
Through smashwords you can download files in Mobi, ePub, PDF etc as shown below on the page of one of my books. Hide and Seek (Ghost story)
Hide and Seek
Ebook By Declan Conner
$0.99 Rating:
(5.00 based on 1 review)
Published: June 03, 2011
Category: Fiction » Mystery & Detective » Short Stories
Words: 13667 (approximate)
Language: English
Ebook Description
Short story, with both American English and UK and Commonwealth English versions available in one eBook
Carl didn’t believe in ghosts.Unless you want to count the Holy one. That was until he had a dream of a young girl and he was invited to play … Hide and Seek. A seat gripping ghost story.
Tags
thriller, crime, suspense, murder, mystery, short story, ghost story, declan conner
Available Ebook reading formats:
You have purchased this book.
Format | Full Book |
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Online Reading (HTML, good for sampling in web browser) | View |
Online Reading (JavaScript, experimental, buggy) | View |
Kindle (.mobi for Kindle devices and Kindle apps) | Download |
Epub (Nook, Sony Reader, Kobo, and most e-reading apps including Stanza, Aldiko, Adobe Digital Editions, others) | Download |
PDF (good for reading on PC, or for home printing) | Download |
RTF (readable on most word processors) | Download |
LRF (Use only for older model Sony Readers that don’t support .epub) | Download |
Palm Doc (PDB) (for Palm reading devices) | Download |
Plain Text (download) (flexible, but lacks much formatting) | Download |
Plain Text (view) (viewable as web page) | View |
Reviews
Review by: Kaye George on July 19, 2011 :
Connor has Carl Jones take us on a train trip in an eerie fog. We never arrive at the intended destination, but chilling events whip Carl between reality and fantasy. Or is it fantasy? Connor keeps the reader guessing until a mystery within a mystery is unraveled.
If you’re used to reading British punctuation, he has included a version for you also. A nice bonus. Check out his many other short stories available.
(reviewed the day of purchase)
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My advice would be to always check to see if the book you want to buy is available on smashwords. Not all books will be available, but it makes sense to get more value for your $.
Other eBook catalogues where you can find my short stories.
Note the Apple link above and below is the one I use for America. For other countries where you are a subscriber, change the “us’ to say “de” for Germany “uk” For the UK, “au’ for Australia. “ca” for Canada, etc.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/isbn9781458086372