Droidmaker and Kindle

I am often asked why there is no Kindle version of Droidmaker. The community of Kindle lovers even kindly offered to help get the book into a format that would be appropriate. But here's the deal: the book is more than text that can be flowed nicely into a Kindle format. I worked very hard to interweave the body of the book with carefully placed sidenotes. Photos -- very rare photos at that -- are embedded in the text where they are important context. I had considered having a folio at the end of the book that was full of photos. But i rejected it. I made dozens of difficult decisions -- the form factor of the book, the weight and color of paper, the layout -- that would maximize the clarity and entertainment value of the story. So, when it comes to the Kindle, the only way to get the text in is to utterly deconstruct the format; it kills the sidebars, the call-outs, the photo positions, and I don't want to do that.

So while I have been prepared to distribute the book for free in PDF form, a format that is identical to the physical book, I'd rather do this than profit from a Kindle version that removed that layout. I understand that some Kindles can take in PDFs. I imagine that in the future new versions of the Kindle may maintain the formats better, but until then, I am not going to produce this. Okay?