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While you are reading this, Amazon is silently rolling out Kindle Format X (KFX) to supplant the previous KF8 formatting. You may have noticed the little “Enhanced Typesetting” entry on their Kindle book pages, which, when set to Enabled, indicates that the new format is in place for that particular book. Naturally, the new features will be visible only on… Continue reading "The horrors of Kindle Format X"
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With the lowering of the barrier of entrance, self-publishing books has become the norm rather than the exception. Something that was traditionally handled by big, lumbering publishing houses or by individuals with a lot of money, has now become a reality for anyone. It no longer has the stigma of vanity publishing, but has instead evolved into a perfectly viable… Continue reading "What is the real purpose of a book cover?"
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For most of us, the name of Scotland Yard is synonymous with detective stories. Whether it is Sherlock Holmes, the books of Agatha Christie or Edgar Wallace, or even the exploits of Jack the Ripper, the involvement of Scotland Yard roots these stories, often elevating the institution to mythical heights. Its involvement lends credence to the powers of traditional law… Continue reading "Scotland Yard, well, hello…"
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Today is a big day for me! It is a make-or-break kind of day, to be exact, because today I am giving Jason Dark a second lease on life. When I first started my Jason Dark series of supernatural mysteries six years ago I had no idea where the adventure would take me. Ebooks were a technological aspiration that had… Continue reading "The return of Jason Dark"
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Many of you have probably heard by now that for the past months I’ve been busy at work to reinvigorate and relaunch my Jason Dark series of books. All the hard work is about to pay off, %%% % % % I hope, as I am nearing the launch date of September 14 for “Hunted,” the latest book in the… Continue reading "The new look of Jason Dark"
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I recently had to switch to TextMate 2 because I had upgraded to OSX 10.10 Yosemite, and my trusty old version of TextMate was no longer fully operational. Some of the bundles I am routinely using when formatting eBooks crashed Ruby, making them useless. One of the features I constantly use is the “Wrap Each Selected Line in Open/Close Tag” command from… Continue reading "Teaching TextMate a new trick"
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Feeling lucky? You should, because I can feel that today is your lucky day. All you have to do is enter in Covertopia’s Give-away, and keep your fingers crossed. You may just win a cool cover for your next book! Heck, I’ll even throw in the formatting for your book. As you may know, Covertopia.com is a new service provider… Continue reading "Win a cover from Covertopia.com!"
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Over the past weeks I’ve been reading a number of non-fiction eBooks—don’t ask me, why, it just happened for some reason. The interesting thing is that I noticed a number of recurring eBook formatting problems that permeated virtually each one of these books, and I thought I’d touch upon the subject for a change. The problem in question revolves around… Continue reading "The case of disjointed word pairs – eBook Formatting Tip"
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For all my author friends and visitors, today I have an announcement that is slightly different from my usual formatting posts. I would like you to check out a brand new website called Covertopia.com! As the title suggests, it is a website specializing on covers. Selling book covers, to be more specific, and if you want to be exact about… Continue reading "Look no further for pre-designed or custom covers! Covertopia.com is here!"
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By now, I am sure you’ve heard that every device in the market has its own little quirks. Whether it’s not scaling images correctly, ignoring transparency, overlooking style settings in certain tags or some other weird behavior, the process of formatting ebooks across platforms is anything than straight-forward. Today I want to direct your attention to one issue in particular,… Continue reading "Custom fonts in iBooks"
