EclectEcon

2605 Used Copies?? Yeah, sure

No sooner had my novel, 2605, gone on sale than the Amazons started listing the availability of used copies of it. WTF??? I knew no copies had been printed, and was puzzled. My sons and nephews enjoyed pointing this out to me last weekend, too.

So I looked at the listings. They were typically along the lines of:

$22 plus $25 for shipping for a book that lists new for $15US.

Our guess is that most or all of these listings are by businesses that immediately list every book at exorbitant prices plus exorbitant shipping costs. If someone actually places an order with them, they order the book and have it shipped. A bizarre business model.

So let me point out that the paperback edition of the book sells new for less than $15US and less than $20Cdn. And of course the Kindle versions are much less expensive: under $3US and under $4Cdn.

2605 -- Paperbacks are now available

The paperback versions of 2605 are available!

But the Kindle version is much less expensive.

You can buy the novel through Amazon.ca, Amazon.com, Amazon.uk, or probably several of the other Amazon sites.

Previous links:

http://www.eclectecon.net/2018/07/buy-my-book.html

http://www.eclectecon.net/2018/07/2605-available-in-both-kindle-and-paperback.html

http://www.eclectecon.net/2018/07/2605-a-very-poignant-review.html

 

 

2605 -- A Very Poignant Review

A facebook friend whom I had known some years ago wrote,

I loved 2605.

Interestingly enough, I was managing an operation that created Collateralized Mortgage Obligations [CMOs] and debt backed tranche products at the same time as your main character was doing similar things. I started backing away from them when I thought there was more risk than was being disclosed. I had several arguments with some leading economists about the risk in the products and how that risk should be properly disclosed.

The book was a very emotional ride for me. I did business with Cantor Fitzgerald for nearly 25 years, and I lost several friends when Cantor Fitzgerald was crashed. But that was only part of the emotional ride. The whole book affected me deeply.

$3.91Cdn for the Kindle Edition; $19.46 for the paperback from Amazon.ca

$2.97US for the Kindle Edition; $14.79 for the paperback from Amazon.com

There also appear to be some used copies available for >$40US even though it has been available only a week or so. :)

 

2605 -- Available in both Kindle and Paperback

In a fairly straight-forward honest review, my son [David Ricardo Palmer] wrote:

This book surprised me. I thought it was going to be a spy/thriller novel, but it’s not - it’s an exploration of “what if”, when you’re faced with the opportunity to start over. The protagonist becomes more likeable as the story progresses, which is a nice journey to share. The decision to pack it in when things get tough made me dislike him at first, but he’s never unredeemable. And as he essentially builds himself again from scratch, he shows strength that was very engaging.

There are several memorable characters in the novel, and a good sense of the horror that 9/11 engendered. I’d read it again and more.

The book is available in both Kindle and paperback formats from Amazon.ca and Amazon.com and elsewhere throughout the world.

 

 

2605

I have spent much of the past year writing my first novel, 2605. It is now available on Kindle just about everywhere and is also available from Amazon.com as a print-on-demand paperback.

According to most knowledgeable people, there were 2606 people killed in the attacks on the World Trade Center, September 11, 2001. Actually the correct figure should be 2605. This is the story of the one person who shouldn’t have been included in that number.

Fred Young was a successful innovator in the market for agricultural mortgages, but he became unsettled with his life in Omaha, Nebraska. While in New York City on business, he forgot to reset his watch and missed an appointment at the World Trade Center when it was destroyed on September 11, 2001. He decided at that moment to let his family, friends, and colleagues think he had died in the terrorist attacks.

The novel traces his thoughts and actions as he makes his decision and goes through the adjustment to a life of loneliness and aloneness with no friends, no references, no job history, no past that he could talk about, and very little money.

You can read the first four and a half chapters online at the Kindle site by clicking on "Look Inside"  or something about "Download a Sample". That's a lot, and it will give you quite the flavour of the book.

Price:

$2.99 US, $3.91Cdn for the Kindle edition. To order the Kindle edition, click here.

$14.79US for the paperback edition from Amazon.com. Unfortunately, while the paperback is available in several countries, it is not available in Canada from Amazon.ca, and so if you want the hard copy and you live in Canada, you'll have to order it from Amazon.com. [Update: The paperback is now also available from Amazon.ca in the Books section there. Buy two and get free shipping if you don't have Amazon Prime!]

Or just go to Amazon and search for 2605 in the book section.

People who have read pre-publication versions of the novel have said,

• Gripping and mesmerizing!
• Very well done John!
• I love it! love it! love it!
• I just finished the book. I enjoyed it very much.  It compelled me to want to keep reading. If I don't enjoy a book I find myself not picking it up or thinking about it. 2605 is an interesting read. I really enjoyed the ending because it wasn't predictable. Well Done.
• We all love the story and the characters!
• Congrats and Cheers,

• Well, I am hooked !

  Fascinating concept which pulled me in very quickly.

  Let me know when your book is published and I will definitely be one of the first to purchase it.

• Congratulations. I’m impressed!!!  Tried to tease out the inevitable autobiographical touches. :)
• I'm going to recommend the book to my book club as soon as it is published!
• I enjoyed reading the book that you sent to me. I was interested in it the whole time. ( you might be surprised at the number of books that I put down because I’m not interested. ) Because I didn’t understand his motivation for ducking out of his former life, I spent the first few chapters wondering when you were going to let him have a past.  I was quite relieved when you in fact did let him have a past that could explain his present.

From the "About the Author section":

 The possibility of shaving to change one’s appearance drastically was made evident to me some years ago when I lost a challenge with students and had to shave my head and beard. The pictures on the back cover [reproduced above] were taken of me, a day apart. These before and after photos illustrate the effect. No one, not even my sons, recognized me the day after I shaved.

The idea for the novel formed in my mind about a year after 9-11, and I laid out the concept of Chapter One for my nephew, Brian Quast, and my late friend, Ben Singer, over coffee one morning. I started work on the novel then, but didn’t like what I had written and shelved it for nearly fifteen years. Then in September 2017, it hit me how I wanted to write it.