A few weeks back the updated and expanded
“Global
Edition” of “Attack, Avoid, Survive” was released. It is now 376 pages long
but changes in formatting mean that it has about 50% more content than the
original book, including new techniques and extra illustrations. It is a sturdy
brick of a book now. Not only will it teach you self-defence but you can use it
to beat a rapist to death and it may just stop small calibre bullets :)
I rather like the printed edition of my
book but I am aware many potential readers only have limited space on their
bookshelves.
Late last night the Global Edition became
available in epub. I had experimented with creating an epub version when the
original book was published. At the time there were just too many technical
problems involved in the process and it seemed likely that there would never be
an electronic version of the book.
Since then, conversion to epub has become
a little more user friendly. I was expecting to take a large chunk of the
summer converting the manuscript. As it turned out it took much less time. This
is not to say that it was not without its problems and didn’t involve some
fairly intense work. People wonder why ebooks cost what they do when they need
no paper or printing. It is because of the many more added man-hours involved
in their conversion. I discovered a book that looked perfect in one viewer
would have false hyperlinks in random places when viewed in another. I hope I
have corrected all these, but have no way of knowing how other viewers might
treat it. If there are such problems my apologies to the reader. I did my best
with the limited resources and budget that I had.
Some of you will know that “Crash
Combat” is already available in epub format. An obvious question is
whether there will be an epub version of “Survival Weapons: Optimizing You Arsenal”?
The answer is that I cannot see that happening anytime soon. The shotgun
chapter of the book contains a large number of useful reference tables which
may be problematic to convert to epub. I have no immediate plans to make an
epub version of the book anytime in the near future so if you are interested in
this book go ahead and get the print copy.
The Books
