{"id":1962,"date":"2011-11-03T08:01:30","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T12:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/?p=1962"},"modified":"2011-11-03T08:03:09","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T12:03:09","slug":"nook-peeps-the-trouble-is-not-in-your-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/03\/nook-peeps-the-trouble-is-not-in-your-set\/","title":{"rendered":"Nook Peeps &#8211; The Trouble is Not In Your Set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A quick \"public service announcement\" to\u00a0readers looking to buy my work for Nook.\u00a0 Quacking Alone Romances is in the midst of a transition with how work gets uploaded to\u00a0B&amp;N.\u00a0 During the transition, until \"Mr. Brick\" beats out the bugs, some of the work downloaded may appear without covers.\u00a0 Even worse, some of it may appear with a tiny little thumbnail size cover in the upper left corner of your Nook screen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Why are we transitioning?\u00a0\u00a0Since indie work appeared in the Nook store, my books were delivered by Smashwords.\u00a0 I stayed with the platform long, long after B&amp;N opened a way for writers to deliver work directly to Nook.\u00a0 I stayed with the platform even though the B&amp;N \"pubit\" system allowed authors to keep more of the money they made.\u00a0 What has finally convinced me to switch is the lengthy delay in getting money into my bank account.<\/p>\n<p>I'm not blaming Smashwords.\u00a0 Their system is their system and I'll still use it\u00a0for Apple, Disel, Sony and KOBO. \u00a0But since B&amp;N has a system that functions like Amazon's KDP, shows real time sales numbers, and pays monthly -\u00a0economics have forced me to switch to Pubit and upload to B&amp;N directly.<\/p>\n<p>The work is formatted right - I think - and if it's not, please HOLLA at us by the email link on this site.\u00a0 We'll get the covers right on the downloads too, but those pesky day jobs keep getting in the way...<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and if you're a Cover Bug\u00a0on B&amp;N infesting a QA\/Mary Anne Graham Romance cover expertly designed by John\u00a0Graham -- you better look out.\u00a0 Mr. Brick packs a nasty punch and he's hunting bugs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quick \"public service announcement\" to\u00a0readers looking to buy my work for Nook.\u00a0 Quacking Alone Romances is in the midst of a transition with how work gets uploaded to\u00a0B&amp;N.\u00a0 During the transition, until \"Mr. Brick\" beats out the bugs, some of the work downloaded may appear without covers.\u00a0 Even worse, some of it may appear <a href=\"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/03\/nook-peeps-the-trouble-is-not-in-your-set\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"Nook Peeps &#8211; The Trouble is Not In Your Set\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1962"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1964,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962\/revisions\/1964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}