Starting this list early means I can easily add to it, and even schedule the date of publication. The latter approach takes forever and is prone to losing something I did in the process. This month I’ve decided to start this list at the beginning of the month and add to it as I go along, rather than trying to retrace what I’ve been doing (like I did last month). Read more Filed under: Categories Uncategorized Tagged as: Tags ACX, Self Publishing What gives?Īs so often in life, there is an explanation for this – but of course it’s not something that’s obvious, nor included in the generous Help Section on ACX.Įventually I’ve figured it out – and here’s how it works. They only ever came up while I was logged out. My own books never came up while I was successfully logged in. But even then, in my case, said list only seemed to return books open for auditions on ACX, rather than results from. Only if said book exists can you pick it and start working on it. Instead, you search for a book on the ACX homepage, which in turn sifts through Amazon’s catalogue. There was a Projects Tab at the top, which I assumed is where I’d create a new project and start uploading myself. When I did that, it all seemed fairly straightforward. You can even login with your existing Amazon credentials. It’s apparently very easy to do using Amazon’ own ACX service. I wanted to upload an audio version of my book, narrated by myself, for sale on Amazon, Audible and iTunes. Read more Filed under: Categories Uncategorized Tagged as: Tags Amazon, Kindle, Retrotech This trick also works on the DX and other models, even on Kindle Fire devices. Several tries later, and without any luck, I remembered a solution that did the trick: fully rebooting my Kindle Keyboard. But when I tried to download it manually, all I got was an error message stating that “The download was unsuccessful. Yes I was, and to my surprise, the book was showing up correctly under Archived Items.
“Hm”, I thought, “this should have happened automatically”.
My trusty old Kindle Keyboard 3G was all charged up, I was ready to leave, but the book had not been downloaded. Having a long journey across town from Miami Beach to Sunset ahead of me, Jerry’s Book of Sin would be a great accompaniment. I had pre-ordered it a few weeks ago and was eager to start reading it. This morning I got a notification from Amazon that Jerry’s new book had been released.
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