With less than 24 hours until the book shop opens we’re not running around like chickens with our heads cut off. Amazingly (for this project) we’ve been ready for the past couple of days, making the wait for the new year even harder.

The Bookshop will be live midnight on the 1st January, Eastern Standard time in Australia (GMT+10). At this point we only have digital copies of The Red Book for sale. You have the option of downloading, after payment, either a PDF or a MobiBook which is PDA, Kindle and Smart Phone ready.

You will notice when you go to the Bookshop, you can purchase The Red Book in a number of different currencies. This reflects the diversity of writers who have written for this project and our committment to being ‘local’ in a global market. There is nothing more aggravating as a consumer than trying to muddle through your head the conversion rate when it comes to buying something online. At Chinese Whisperings you don’t have to do that. We have purchasing options in five different currencies – Australian, Canadian and US dollars, the Euro and The Pound Sterling.  All are set on a base rate of $12.00 Australian and are updated each month to reflect shifts in currencies.

What of an actual paper version of The Red Book?

The paperback will be available mid March. Unlike digital publishing the traditional route is the equivalent to the slow boat to China, and while we’d love to wave our magic wands and utter, “A la peanut butter sandwiches” it isn’t that easy.