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I have a few questions and wonder what your thoughts are. I want to make a book I have in print into an ebook.
The book has many diagrams and illustrations so the layout is important. Converting to epub (with Calibre) it just stacks everything on top of each other and doesn't work at all. PDF’s keep the layout so that’s an option (LSource ebook manual suggests PDF for layout intensive material) but Adobe Digital editions doesn’t read PDF’s very well (low quality) and normal PDF readers like Adobe reader or Nitro don’t recognise DRM.
Are there any ereaders that can read PDF’s well? or I suppose I could find out how to make the whole PDF into high quality jpeg's then back into one PDF then convert to ePub so it recognises only different pages and stacks them rather than separate parts within each page. Of course that means the font size wont be adjustable, or anything else, it will be fixed like a PDF. As long as that is communited adequately to potential customers it should be fine, in the synopsis I could include something like …
PLEASE NOTE: Because this publication is dependant on page layout fonts can’t be resized.
I don't think ereaders such as the kindle would work because of the small screens, they seem best suited to text with pictures inbetween. A technical method book wouldn't work, it looks fine on larger screens though. Therefore info about that could also be included in the synopsis regarding smaller screens.
My book has audio all downloadable and is public domain (apart for commercial use). That was the only option as it's very hard to self-publish a book that includes an audio CD, while having security codes for the downloadable audio would be impossible too. Downloadable public domain suits fine as their intended commercial use isn't possible without purchase of book anyway.
The big publishers only have small fraction of their music method books in ebook format, I guess because audio tracks with ebook are only possible with a small hand full of i products at the moment.
I’m a bit cagey about giving away the domain name (apart from in the actual book) such as in the synopsis because unlike an info / promotion site its half the actual product and I’m a bit cautious of “internet bogey men” or something like that. Having said that I’m aware a lot of authors do include domains and I realize it could be beneficial in terms of marketing, e.g. the equivalent of “Look inside” wouldn’t just be limited to Amazon.
I guess this thread could have been on the non-fiction section too? some people on there might know about technical books.
regards,
The book has many diagrams and illustrations so the layout is important. Converting to epub (with Calibre) it just stacks everything on top of each other and doesn't work at all. PDF’s keep the layout so that’s an option (LSource ebook manual suggests PDF for layout intensive material) but Adobe Digital editions doesn’t read PDF’s very well (low quality) and normal PDF readers like Adobe reader or Nitro don’t recognise DRM.
Are there any ereaders that can read PDF’s well? or I suppose I could find out how to make the whole PDF into high quality jpeg's then back into one PDF then convert to ePub so it recognises only different pages and stacks them rather than separate parts within each page. Of course that means the font size wont be adjustable, or anything else, it will be fixed like a PDF. As long as that is communited adequately to potential customers it should be fine, in the synopsis I could include something like …
PLEASE NOTE: Because this publication is dependant on page layout fonts can’t be resized.
I don't think ereaders such as the kindle would work because of the small screens, they seem best suited to text with pictures inbetween. A technical method book wouldn't work, it looks fine on larger screens though. Therefore info about that could also be included in the synopsis regarding smaller screens.
My book has audio all downloadable and is public domain (apart for commercial use). That was the only option as it's very hard to self-publish a book that includes an audio CD, while having security codes for the downloadable audio would be impossible too. Downloadable public domain suits fine as their intended commercial use isn't possible without purchase of book anyway.
The big publishers only have small fraction of their music method books in ebook format, I guess because audio tracks with ebook are only possible with a small hand full of i products at the moment.
I’m a bit cagey about giving away the domain name (apart from in the actual book) such as in the synopsis because unlike an info / promotion site its half the actual product and I’m a bit cautious of “internet bogey men” or something like that. Having said that I’m aware a lot of authors do include domains and I realize it could be beneficial in terms of marketing, e.g. the equivalent of “Look inside” wouldn’t just be limited to Amazon.
I guess this thread could have been on the non-fiction section too? some people on there might know about technical books.
regards,