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This is the sixth installment of a series of articles. To read the previous one, please click here Time for the clean-up of your manuscript Now that we’ve exhaustively covered the preliminaries, it is finally time to put it all to work for us and begin creating an actual eBook source file. I know you’ve been waiting for this with… Continue reading "Take pride in your eBook formatting (Part VI)"
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Last week I went to Las Vegas to visit CES, the Consumer Electronic Show. It is kind of an annual migration for me, to go to the show and see all the latest technical developments and gizmos that we can expect to hit the market in the next months. Interestingly, this year, the show was pretty much underwhelming on the… Continue reading "A few impressions from CES"
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This is the fifth installment of a series of articles. To read the previous one, please click here Now that we’ve seen some of the structural basics of HTML, it is time to examine how you can affect the actual look of these elements. The easiest, most efficient and most reliable way is through so-called style. A style sheet is… Continue reading "Take pride in your eBook formatting (Part V)"
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I hope you all had a great start into the new year! A few days ago I finished “Throne of Jade, ” the second book in Naomi Novik’s “Temeraire” series. As you may recall, I loved the first book, “His Majesty’s Dragon,” and was extremely excited to go into the sequel. Interestingly, the book was not quite as good as… Continue reading "“Throne of Jade” was different than expected"
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This is the fourth installment of a series of articles. To read the previous one, please click here The basics of HTML Finally, with all the preliminaries out of the way, we are finally ready to descend into the real machinations of eBook creation, but since we will be working with HTML for the next few chapters, let me explain… Continue reading "Take pride in your eBook formatting (Part IV)"
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Something happened this Christmas that I did not see coming. I upgraded myself to a Kindle 3. I have been a first-generation Kindle user for a long time now and have never had the feeling that my Kindle was lacking in any department. As a matter of fact, for the longest time I told myself that I do not need… Continue reading "Why I upgraded to a Kindle 3"
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As we head into Christmas and the New Year at a rapid pace, I thought I’d let you guys know about some of the book highlights I’ve encountered this year. Since I’ve been writing and publishing my own books I found that I am reading books with much more awareness,enjoying their writing, style and structure much more than before. At… Continue reading "My book highlights of 2010"
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This is the third installment of a series of articles. To read the previous one, please click here The Road to Right After having spent a lot of time in my last installment, telling you how you should not create an eBook, I will no longer hold you back with explanations of Wrong and instead we will point our heads… Continue reading "Take pride in your eBook formatting (Part III)"
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Apple has just released a new version (v1.2) of iBooks for the iPad and the iPhone. Usually this is not something I would care much about, but Apple has added one feature in particular that stands out in my mind – hyphenation. As an author I have constantly been surprised that none of the eBook readers in the market seems… Continue reading "Hyphenation finally makes inroads into eBook readers"
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Most people know me as a fan of Apple products, a real Mac-head, so to speak. The reason for that is that traditionally I can find very little flaw in the products the company offers, their approach to the user experience and the general approach to the marketplace. That does not mean the company is beyond reproach, of course, and… Continue reading "I want my iPad orientation lock switch back!"
