Going to Readercon 24? (Plus, our 4th of July Sale!)

Allan Dyen-Shapiro will be at Readercon 34, July 17-20!

Better yet, he’ll be there with print copies of The Day We Said Goodbye to the Birds, fresh off the presses and ready to sign! If you’re going to Readercon, be sure to find him and say hi!

If you aren’t going to Readercon, you can still get the book, either in ebook or paperback. It’s now out on a plethora of ebook platforms, all of which you’ll find at this link:

https://books2read.com/The-Day-We-Said-Goodbye-to-the-Birds

As for getting a print copy, the Amazon-exclusive version has been out for about two weeks now and looks fine, but we now have a link to the new IngramSpark edition, which is going into wider distribution and will be available (soon, we hope) through outlets such as Barnes & Noble, etc. The books Allan will have to sign at Readercon will be the IngramSpark edition.

We also have a QR code for the IngramSpark edition, which is something entirely new to us. If someone who is familiar with QR codes would be so kind as to do whatever it is one does with QR codes to this incomprehensible glob, and let us know what it does, we’d greatly appreciate it.

Why two print editions, you ask? Because while Amazon is much faster, the IngramSpark edition is just all-around better, in a variety of subtle ways. Better paper, better alignment of the interior content to the trim size, better color printing on the cover, and a tighter and more durable binding. The most important difference, though, is that while Amazon can in theory put the book into wider distribution, Ingram actually does get our books into real honest-to-God bookstores, most notably Barnes & Noble.

The astute observer will also note that as of today, the Amazon print edition is priced at $7.99 USD, while the Ingram edition is priced at $8.99. This is a temporary difference. While the Ingram edition is slightly more expensive to produce, it’s a lot more expensive to distribute. Thus, we had to set a slightly higher MSRP.

Consider this an inadvertent and unplanned Fourth of July Sale. Through the coming weekend, you can buy the Amazon print version for just $7.99. 

By Monday, we should have the two versions fully synced, and then the Amazon price will go up to $8.99 USD, to match the IngramSpark price.