I have released AI is Love as a Kindle book. It took a while to figure out how I was going to do that, but in the end, it was possible to format it like a comic book or manga and upload it that way. (This involved the use of Kindle Create, which is an application I am not fond of, though admittedly the copy I had installed was from 2020 and was way out of date.)
The Kindle book is priced at a much more modest $15.00 (half the price of the softcover edition). I still make money off of that, but the paperback publishing cost is gone.
I will add the following caveats:
- If you do not have a tablet, or can’t use something like Kindle for PC, I don’t recommend buying the Kindle version. It won’t look good on a classic Kindle (like a Paperwhite) because you won’t get color, and it probably will end up too small.
- If you do buy the Kindle version to read on a tablet, I recommend opening the “AA” menu at top right, clicking into the Layout tab, and turning off “Vertical Scroll (Landscape).” If you don’t do this, you won’t be able to turn the tablet to Landscape mode and view two pages at a time, which sort of breaks the way the book is formatted (description on the left, picture on the right). This isn’t necessary if you are reading it in Kindle for PC or Kindle on the Web. (I assume it wouldn’t be a problem for the Mac Kindle app either, but I don’t own a Mac, so there you have it.)
If the e-book version still interests you, well, just click on the gorgeous picture of my wife…I mean, the image of the cover, above.