Forum / Ebooks

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  Ann Bogle

  Jun 30, 09:21am

  Has there been a thread on publishing ebooks? An editor I respect in the UK has invited me to publish an ebook: prose with art, any length. I could do it as a book or chapbook. Does anyone have experience with ebook publishing to share?

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  Gloria Mindock

  Jul 01, 12:43pm

  Hi Ann-

  I have published 5 e-books by different authors. I do not charge for people to read them. They all have been well received.

  Since you respect the editor in the UK, I would go ahead it have it published. Find out if people have to pay to read it. Some presses do charge.

  From an editors standpoint of view, it worked well.

  Hope this helps-
  Gloria

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  Ann Bogle

  Jul 01, 09:54pm

  Thanks, Gloria, for the helpful reply.

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  eamon byrne

  Jul 02, 05:03am

  Speaking of e-books, there's a dude on this site who's an absolute expert on the e-book scene, particularly with regards to formats etc. But I can't remember who he is.

  I've recently downloaded 3 different e-book systems: microsoft reader, adobe digital editions epub reader, and mobipocket reader.

  I've found mobipocket to be far the best, as it does more stuff (eg full line justification). Also it's easy to import your own html or doc files and have the reader convert them to its e-book format automatically. It seems to work. MS reader was limited in this regard. Adobe reader was buggy.

  Anyone else had experience with e-book formats?

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