{"id":255,"date":"2009-10-12T11:02:21","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T15:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/2009\/10\/miles_ornette_cecil_goes_kindl\/"},"modified":"2011-04-28T16:33:39","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T20:33:39","slug":"miles_ornette_cecil_goes_kindl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2009\/10\/miles_ornette_cecil_goes_kindl.html","title":{"rendered":"Miles Ornette Cecil goes Kindle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Huzzah! My book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Miles-Ornette-Cecil-Beyond-ebook\/dp\/B000SHK1DQ\/?tag=howardmacom-20\"><i>Miles Ornette Cecil &#8212; Jazz Beyond Jazz<\/i><\/a> is now an e-book from Amazon for Kindle-reading and maybe other e-book formats, too (<strike>I&#8217;m checking<\/strike> see below). It&#8217;s cheaper than the hardbound version and a long sample including epigrams, Greg Tate&#8217;s preface and the start of my first chapter is free. Go through that link above and if you buy I get a $1 kickback as an Amazon Affiliate. <\/p>\n<p>This edition can be optimized for the the larger-screen Kindle DX, though I&#8217;m not sure how useful that is. Now I&#8217;m psyched to get <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Future-Jazz-Howard-Mandel\/dp\/0195141210\/?tag=howardmacom-20\"><i>Future Jazz<\/i><\/a> into an e-book form (I have both paper and hard-bound copies for sale; order an autographed copy, $1 0 and $15 respectively, by leaving a comment below). I&#8217;m also interested in if readers of Jazz Beyond Jazz the blog like e-books. Could the e-book, e-article and e-essay be the future of financially compensated music journalism? Opinions solicited &#8212; let me know.<\/p>\n<p>update: ebook also available in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobipocket.com\/en\/eBooks\/eBookDetails.asp?BookID=218834\">Mobipocket<\/a> format. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.howardmandel.com\/\" target=\"blank\">howardmandel.com<\/a> <br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.feedburner.com\/fb\/a\/emailverifySubmit?feedId=1102712&amp;loc=en_US\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe by Email <\/a>  |<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/JazzBeyondJazz\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe by  RSS<\/a> |<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\" target=\"_blank\">Follow on Twitter <\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/archives.html\" target=\"_blank\"> All JBJ posts <\/a> |<br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/w.sharethis.com\/widget\/?tabs=web%2Cpost%2Cemail&amp;charset=utf-8&amp;style=default&amp;publisher=6ed88875-2235-4b29-aaa3-60183b0bcbcc\"><\/script> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huzzah! My book Miles Ornette Cecil &#8212; Jazz Beyond Jazz is now an e-book from Amazon for Kindle-reading and maybe other e-book formats, too (I&#8217;m checking see below). It&#8217;s cheaper than the hardbound version and a long sample including epigrams, Greg Tate&#8217;s preface and the start of my first chapter is free. Go through that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[534,532,535,533,413],"class_list":{"0":"post-255","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"tag-amazon","8":"tag-e-book","9":"tag-future-jazz","10":"tag-kindle","11":"tag-miles-ornette-cecil-jazz-beyond-jazz","12":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1i3CL-47","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":328,"url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2010\/07\/italy_here_i_come.html","url_meta":{"origin":255,"position":0},"title":"Italy here I come","author":"Howard Mandel","date":"July 21, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"The Siena Jazz Workshop has me present my book Miles Ornette Cecil - Jazz Beyond Jazz (buy it for your Kindle!) 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