Finally ... Apple approves our e-book

It took way too long, but Apple this afternoon finally added our March Meet iPad book to its iBookstore.

The iBookstore page offers a glimpse of what's inside our iPad book."March Meet: Bakersfield's Love Affair With Speed, Nitro & Good Times" can de downloaded for only $9.99.* Quite a bargain for an iPad book that contains loads of great stories, a dozen videos, more than 200 photos and much more. 

"Lighter" versions of "March Meet" are available for the Amazon Kindle and Barnes & Noble Nook (We have reports B&N is showing off the book on devices displayed in its Temecula store.). Because most versions of the Kindle and Nook favor text over multimedia, versions for those devices contain no video and far fewer photos. 

But we're quick to point out that buyers of all versions of "March Meet" will get access to a password-protected page containing exclusive videos, most of the great photos (plus access to high-resolution versions that can be purchased separately). 

This was our first foray into e-book publishing, so please let us know what you think.

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* = For some reason, Google eBooks is/was selling "March Meet" for $7.99, prompting Amazon to drop its price to match. We already believe $9.99 is a killer bargain, so we're going to try to pull the Google edition and see if Amazon restores its price to our starting retail price. Neither entity asked us for permission, although the fine print gives them a lot of flexibility to grind us into a nub. Sigh.