Welcome!

If you love the written word as much as I do, my hope is that you will consider your visit here today, time well-spent.

It is my belief that books ought to be made available to be read – not to be made money out of. I do not believe in marketing my books for the sake of making a profit. Having a book read is reward enough. The aim of this website is to provide information on the books and to provide electronic versions of the books at a fraction of the cost of commercial publishers.

Present-day technology helps reduce the cost of books significantly. This website is the outcome of that realization – to use technology to make books affordable to all. Digital publishing and the Internet make it possible to cut the middleman out almost completely (but not quite!). There is still a small tab, though. The price is meant to offset, at least in part, the cost of digital publishing, copyright, webhosting, and ISBN fees. 

You can download a digital version of any of my books in the format of your choice (EPUB, MOBI, or PDF), for just $1.99.  And if this price is still on the high side for someone with limited means in any part of the world, I would be happy to send him/her a PDF version of the book totally gratis.

The prices of the digital versions of the books available from other online sources like Amazon’s Kindle and Barnes & Noble’s Nook have also been lowered to $1.99. The traditional print versions will, of course, will cost a lot more due to the cost of materials.

All books have been carefully proofread afresh and completely reformatted for the digital medium, using hyperlinks and other enhancements. After many experiments with other software, I finally settled on Calibre for creating e-books in various formats. I cannot recommend Calibre highly enough and I laud its creator Kovid Goyal for magnanimously making it available free of cost to users.

The portfolio available of this website also includes the Armenian (Արմինեի սիրո համար) and Russian language (РАДИ ЛЮБВИ К АРМИНЕ) versions of For the Love of Armine. These language versions are unavailable in electronic or print formats from the source from where the English versions are available.

To keep costs low for the reader, the books are not DRM protected. I rely on the honor system (or the trust system as it is called in England) for readers to respect the terms of the copyright and use the downloads for their individual use only.  

On ‘The Bookshelf’ tab you will find information about each of the books selectable from the drop-down menu.  You can also purchase books in the format of your choice form the book-pages. With the passage of time, I’m hoping these pages will also feature comments from readers like you.

My only request is that after reading a book, you take a few minutes to leave your thoughts or comments in the box for comments at the foot of the page for that book.

You can find posts (not much of a fan of the term blog) by yours truly, in a variety of subjects, including on my hobby of amateur radio, on the ‘Posts’ tab.

Please feel free to use the ‘Get in Touch’ page to connect. I promise to respond personally to each message.

This website is completely self-made, and I have no one else to blame but this bumbling amateur for any hiccups. It has taken me four months of trial and error to get it to this shape. Will be grateful for feedback if you come across any bugs. Will do my best to fix them as quickly as I can.

Addendum: After leaving this page untouched for nearly ten years, and much of the website as well,  except for posts once in a while, I have had the good fortune of connecting with Ms. Cordilia Muktieh of Shillong who volunteered to audit this site and fix the bugs that came to light during the audit.

Thank you for visiting this page and for your patronage and support!

Abie Alexander.

 

 

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