submitting an e-book to Booklocker.com

mmm... pancakes · Jun 30, 2005

Hi,

Any knowledge on this is welcome.

I appreciate that when someone says something in writers' guidelines that you should never go outside that when submitting.

Booklocker.com says it "does not list or sell" e-books over 3MB, because they take too long to download on a dial-up connection.

My e-book contains several graphics that are crucial to the book. As a PDF file comes to 3.18MB.

So... do y'all think there's any chance of them considering listing something *slightly* over their limit??

I'm dreaming, aren't I?

Susie · Jun 30, 2005

Hi, pancakes,

I really can't answer your question, but Angela Hoy at Booklocker.com is really nice and it would be good to ask her. Much good luck.

susie

mmm... pancakes · Jul 1, 2005

I posted a reply before, but it seems to've disappeared. Hm?

Anyway, here it is again:

Thanks! That's a good idea. I'll go to do that now.

Cheers!

robeiae · Jul 1, 2005

It may be that their system cannot even receive things over 3MB.

Rob

Cathy C · Jul 1, 2005

You might consider taking your graphics over to Adobe Photoshop and either lowering the resolution a bit or shrinking the size. Since it will be an e-book, you can probably manage with 100 dpi for the graphics without affecting the quality. Also a change from 3x5 to 2x4 is fairly significant to the overall size of the document.

Good luck!

mmm... pancakes · Jul 8, 2005

An update for anyone interested: I e-mailed Angela and asked about sending something over the 3MB limit. She said the amount I was talking about was negligible, and to send it on in!

YAY!

So I'll be doing that shortly.

Thanks to everyone for their suggestions!

submitting an e-book to Booklocker.com

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Susie

Thanks, special friend for my avi!

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robeiae

Touch and go

Cathy C

Ooo! Shiny new cover!

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