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Excellent article yes it seems there is a good reason to put your work on Kindle. Like everything new it makes you feel a little vunerable but I might just give it a try. Thanks a lot for all your feedback, it's great to get other folks points of view.

Yes, understand what you mean, it just seems a shame that all those talented autors are losing out. I suppose this is the future. I do love a good book to read and hope the quality will still be there in future years.

This is interesting, I recently put a post on here regarding having a book published. I was asked by many friends, family etc. to make it available on Kindle. I looked into it but decided not to go ahead as I would have to send my manuscript to Amazon and wasn't too sure about this. This week a friend of mine who has a Kindle has told me his friend who works in IT has managed to download hundreds of books illegally onto his Kindle, he says anyone with a knowledge of computing can do this easily. I was very surprised! I think I made the right decision not to go with Kindle, I am only an amateur but how do the authors of best sellers make a living if it is so easy to download kindle books free? I was thinking of asking for a kindle for Christmas but not so sure now, has anyone else got them?

Thanks, don't think I will ever become a famous author but it's good fun having a go. Sunny

Hi Catalpa and Pommier, Thank you so much, you don't know how great a feeling it is to get a book published until you have done it. I didn't write it to make a fortune, I did it for my own satisfaction and it has done me so much good to have faced a challenge and succeeded, something I have not done often in life. So keep having a go and you will probably succeed Pommier. Good luck Sunny

Thanks for putting the info on and thanks also for your congratulations, it is really worth doing this challenge as it makes you feel you are doing something worth while. Have a go! Sunny

Excuse me, have I given you my full name or the name of my book? I don't think so. Can you not accept anything that is of help without treating it with suspicion! Enjoy life! Sunny

Hi, Hopefully this will be of interest to anyone who is interested in writing a book. I took part in a competition to write a book with 50,000 words. The book had to be written in the month of November last year. I gave it a try and actually managed to do it. I was so pleased even more so when my book was reviewed and accepted for publishing. Wasn't easy as I did all the editing myself but finally accepted the proof. It is now on all the Amazon sites for sale but because it was printed in America takes a while to get the copy. Easier to order it direct on Amazon.com. Friends order it direct from me. If anyone wants the name of the web site that run the competition, let me know. My book is about our life in Normandy from 1989-2006 just a light hearted tale, no knocking the French all done in the best of taste. Hope this will give all you budding writers encouragement. Sunny

Hi, we have a large pine tree in the garden and can usually reach the nests cut them out and burn them. Unfortunately this year they are too high and we have now found about five long lines of them. We at first were fascinated by them, that was until our friends dog touched one, he was really ill and nearly lost his sight in one eye, not funny. We love wildlife but not something that does so much harm. We will have our tree topped so we can reach the nests and destroy them but all around us neighbours have the nests in their trees and don't seem to worry about them. I really think everyone should be made more aware of the danger to pets and humans.