There are way too many e-readers on the market right now, but I'm trying to keep up. The bastard stepchild is the kobo. I don't know anybody that owns one but I've seen people buying them so yesterday I made Black Dye White Noise available for it. Loading the book as an author is simple enough, pretty slick in fact. The reader 'experience' is varied. That's about the best thing I can say about it. During testing, I downloaded the desktop app for Mac which is OK I guess, but the app for the iphone is awful. Let me put it like this: I can throw a website together in a day but I can't even get the sample of the book to load on my phone. That's how complicated it is. I assume I'm missing something here but if I am, then everybody else must be too and that's not good. I'll roll with it, because it's the same source file that I used for ibooks and the kindle.

Give it time and only the strong will survive in this market and that will be a good thing.

Anyway, during my testing on the kobo, I must have had the 50 Shades trilogy pimped at me at least a dozen times. Thanks for that. Turns out e-readers have simply taken the same marketing strategy as bricks and mortar stores to sell their wares. All that technology and the entire contents of the internet at your feet and you choose to try and sell me the very thing I can buy in more places than I can get milk? Is that really smart, really dumb or just plain lazy?

Not my worry. Black Dye White Noise is available if you have a kobo and I'm moving on...