Well, sort of.
Now that the rest of the Macmillan family have dipped their toes into the Second Life water as well, we have a bookstore on the island. This features new titles from Pan and Palgrave Macmillan every month and gives the first few chapters of the book away as a free sample.
So, excitingly, I am now an XStreetSL merchant! You can go to the website, “buy” any of the book samples for the princely sum of L$0 and peruse them at your leisure in Second Life.
It is now one of the highlights of my day seeing a new Sold! email, so do come along and see.
Note – the links were not working so temporarily removed. Back soon
Book highlights this month:
World Without End by Ken Follett
Science and Controversy by A J Meadows – my personal favourite, despite the hard copy currently sitting unread in the office, about the very first editor of Nature
That last link to the book about the last editor of Nature goes to a site advertising porn. Can you remove the link please?
Ouch! Thanks, Maxine – now I check, all the links are going to the same page – most certainly not mine! I’m not sure why, but I have removed all the links and sent to nice safe Macmillan pages for now. I will investigate why they’re not working and check very carefully from now on.
Sorry, eds – hope I haven’t claimed the dubious honour of being the first person to accidentally up the rating of Nature Network…
Thanks, Jo.
You are far more clever about this kind of thing than me but if you are creating links via an email application, that may be part of the problem. I’ve found when I am making blog posts remotely via an email application, the URL sometimes gets “taken over” and a weird extension gets stuck on there. Sorry if this makes no sense, but it has happened to me a couple of times (though what I get is a broken link rather than an unsuitable one).
all best
Maxine.
PS Now I have looked at the Jack Meadows book via your beautiful link, it looks really great. Unfortunately, it is £25 on the Palgrave site and £23 and some pence on Amazon. If that office copy really is lying around unread….. ;-)