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This is the ninth installment of a series of articles. To read the previous one, please click here Okay, it is time for me to finally make good on my promise and turn your book’s HTML source file into a proper eBook. All we need is a little software called Calibre that you can download here. I want to take… Continue reading "Take pride in your eBook formatting (Part IX)"
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Apple is making headlines again. I am sure you have heard the buzz that Apple this week rejected Sony’s eBook reader application for the iPhone. Yeah, quite the bummer, I know. Instantly after it became known that Apple rejected the app people began to discuss the ramifications of that move. It would seem at this point that Apple rejected the… Continue reading "Does Apple really want to be such a sore loser?"
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There has been a lot of discussion in recent months about the pricing of eBooks, most of it stating that eBooks are too expensive and that prices need to come down. Seth Godin made a post on his blog recently pointing out that eBooks don’t really compete with traditional books but with mobile games, music and downloadable movies. While there… Continue reading "Are eBooks really overpriced?"
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This is the eighth installment of a series of articles. To read the previous one, please click here Last time I promised you I’d cover some more frills for your eBook formatting, and as you’d certainly agree, images are a big part of that. Even for fiction writers images offer great opportunities to present your book in the best possible… Continue reading "Take pride in your eBook formatting (Part VIII)"
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This is the seventh installment of a series of articles. To read the previous one, please click here As you can probably tell by now from the last installment, we are by now getting pretty close to real tangible results that you can actually use, so let’s press on without delay. The first thing we are going to do next… Continue reading "Take pride in your eBook formatting (Part VII)"
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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)"
