Those of you who have a Kindle, or who have downloaded the Kindle app to your iPhone or iPod, may be interested to know that my book Walking with Zeke is now available in Kindle format at what is, quite honestly, a painfully low price: $3.99. That was Amazon’s call, not mine. But hey, each sale nets me a dollar!¹

Or you can get the dead-tree version by going here and shelling out a little under twenty simoleons,  which although four times more expensive requires technology no more advanced than a reading lamp and perhaps some eyeglasses. And I get about seven and a half dollars per copy that way.²

I’m not sure which delivery mode has the lower carbon footprint.³

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1 Which means if I sell 1500 KindleZekes I can get the rebuilt rear differential the Zheep’s Primary Car Physician has been pressuring me about.
2 Which works out to 200 dead-tree books per differential.
3 Not buying either version certainly has the lower carbon footprint, as it means I won’t be driving Zheep much longer. So it’s one of those win-win-win situations.

1. 
   sherwood 2009 03 18 at 11:36:45 pm

   As the guy who put most of the wear on the Jeep’s differential to begin with, I thought the least I could do would be to grab a couple more copies of the honest-to-God paper volume of Walking with Zeke.  Which I did.

   However, here’s a warning to other Lulu buyers: if you don’t specify a delivery option, the default costs damn’ near as much as the book does (and I presume that Chris doesn’t get any cut of the shipping cost), so make sure you scrutinize your order before finalizing it.  If you force the cheapest delivery option, you can afford to buy two copies of the book itself for just a little more than it would cost you to buy one with the default shipping option, thus doubling the Zheep’s benefit.

   And, Chris, if we were to give WWZ as presents, it would be nice to have autographed copies to give.  How should we go about that?

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   arvind 2009 03 19 at 9:43:25 am

   Finally bought the dead-tree version a few minutes back. I’ve been waiting to buy it for so long! Thanks for the warning Sherwood! I might have just clicked right through with the default shipping option, if I weren’t looking out for it. Those shipping charges are insane!

   I can get the rebuilt rear differential the Zheep’s Primary Car Physician has been pressuring me about.

   Are you sure he/she isn’t just trying not to be out-of-net-work in these tough times? :-)