Munsey’s Technosnarl

Munsey’s.net, now the fastest ebook site in the business.  Actually, we were gonna make folks register for that little toolbar, but, hey, avoids site scrapers, and makes the 15, 20,000 categories created by tags useful…

There’s a couple other features to come, two of them almost ready, and batch-data-gathering to sort.  Confess, right now, it’s damn tempting to move it all to the new box (given fatter pipes, 1/3rd the page generation times, etc.)

Ehh, I’ll wait a few days…. just in case, but the new mobile is also working.

(Need to copy over the books done in the last month, month-and-a-half, get the plucker converter to work, figure out if it’s a DNS thing that makes blog-checking not work, etc., etc.)

Related, finally finished Disktwo of the Adobe Mobiles, fought through some bugs on that one, so Diskone may not be as hard.  (Disktwo is uploading in three, two, one…)

Happy Thursday.

The backlog for mobipocket-first books into Kindle has apparently been ended.  (For myself and others that I track on her behalf.)  Interestingly, ebooks 160-165k in the Kindle store had to come from elsewhere, making filler slightly less likely; not that you’ll ever convince those who’ve devoted lives to fibbing about Kindle rather than, you know, launching a competitive product that actually justifies text and handles 300k ebook files without crashing the system.

Right now, Amazon’s showing 1 - 12 of 166,614 results, but it’s holiday time, so they might not make 170k books until, well, next week.

What with CreateSpace, and the whole “into the global digital catalog thing,” but nothing you say can make me reprint that McPartland.

It’s, err, a noir.  Sorta.  With a happy ending.  In Carmel.   With Heroin.  From Japan!

150k books is a distant memory. They’re now at 161,443.  More interestingly, we’re back to a lag before Mobi-store published show up in Kindleville. Though there’s still a backlog of around 600 works, I’ve been putting her titles into Mobi as they come out while working on other things, and Amazon’s two updates behind me.

I’m sure they’ll catch up, and as I recall it was faster to go through Amazon’s Digital Text Platform, if Amazon’s racing to 170,000 titles by the end of the month, as seems possible.

Now, paying folks in a timely manner, making access to the store as easy as possible, and going through traditional ebook channels might make the Kindle seem like a world-beater.  But remember: EPUB/Adobe Mobile, with its unnecessary complexity and artificial barriers keeps mediocrity employed and competitors out, while preserving educational markets for the traditionally dominant firms.

So, there’s that.

Now might be a good time to mention, I’m heading to Taiwan for 10 days in September, some of it’s biz-related, some of it’s to catch up with somebody I ain’t seen in a while, and of course, I will be pitching Mr. Sturman’s book.

Hopefully, all the site stuff will be complete at that point, as from the 20th on, it’s book festival season.

… I’m… err.. optimistic.

2_.bak

… Two sets of developers; three sets of replace’em scripts…

But we are almost there…

http://www.munseys.net

Really close.

Won’t take more than 6-18 months to finish.  Promise

Something made the database go wacky.  Not sure what, just restored from backups, I’ll rerun the epub adding scripts, and sort out what was a homepage book tomorrow (those were manual.)

Odd.

At a show this weekend, or I’d go yell at folks to speed up the migration.

From Braak:

Site is Threat Quality.  Worth a watch.  Also, note that hipsters (the I-pod’s core market) are now using the device.

Warning, link contains ebook device violence.