Okay, all you cheapskates!
MJ Elliott's new book is available as an e-book for the grand sum ninety-nine cents. Yup, less than a buck.
"My first collection, The Legends of Sherlock Holmes, is now on sale at Amazon: "http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005OKTF1Q
It's a Kindle book, readbale either on a Kindle or on the Kindle app available for PC.
If you enjoy MJ's scripts for Imagination Theatre, you'll love this book. His ability to capture the tone of Dr. Watson's original chronicles is top-notch and his sense of humor (buried in puns, literary references, song allusions and the like in the stories) add a whole new dimension to the Apocrypha.
Bob
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Checking Bob's link for this (from a UK IP) it's $1.34
On Amazon's UK site it's 86p.
Anybody know why buying from the US site from a UK IP costs 35 cents more?
Well I've just got it from the UK site. A little annoying that whilst I can view the book covers of the 3 free gratis public domain books that come with the Kindle software I can't seem to get to the Holmes cover (that Roger posted). I don't know if it's missing or just not part of the package.
If it's not part of the package I'm not going to complain considering the price but I would if it was a full price book.
They need to move all those electrons so much further .... all that undersea cable and all ...
:>)
I know you're just joking Bob but yesterday I went with it for 10 minutes and checked some distances on distancefromtodotnet.
So I think the nearest point to America in the UK is Land's End in Cornwall. I did think that it might be the most westerly point in Northern Island but didn't check.
From Land's End to Maine it's 2896 miles. I didn't go as far as zooming right in to get the most easterly part of America. But Maine's not far off.
Then I measured Seattle Washington in the east of America to Miami in the west and it's 2732 miles.
It seems there's not much in it. (that is if the Amazon servers were in Seattle and the book was being downloaded in Miami or vice-versa. - that is if the distance did matter!)
Ahhh,, Jake ....
1. Intracontinental electrons travel far cheaper than those that must use the undersea cable.Lots of choices of routes means more competition for the little critters.
2. We send many electrons directly through the ether, without using any cables.
3. The US doesn't have a VAT.
4. It's actually a bit of revenge for the tax on tea.
:>P
There's also this available from M J Elliott:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDmNytGZUtA
Now how about doing that for the whole film!
Back on topic I received a Kindle for Xmas so I'll be reading the book shortly.
That is an absolute hoot! Thanks for the link, stranger ... ;>)
No idea, Jake. I saved the cover graphic from Amazon.uk, but it doesn'r come as part of the Kindle download, except as an icon in your Kindle "library".
Roger
Any chance of a hardcopy of this book at a nice price as well? Estleman?
(I haven't used the word hardcopy for ages!)
Devices like kindle and tablets, netbooks etc I just can't afford. I had to dig deep to buy a new mouse (£6) last week. I just can't sit at a desktop and read from my PC either.
Jake
I believe that a hardcopy was to have been released by a Canadian publisher some years ago, but the company no longer exists, sadly. The closest thing would be, I imagine, back issues of SHERLOCK Magazine, in which many of these stories originally appeared.
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