02-15-2008, 01:27 PM | #61 | |
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pdflrfwin works rather well actually. Not sure if I am still going to continue with Book Designer. |
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Tor is at least trying -- they have a deal to offer electronic content over Baen's Webscriptions program. That took a bit of doing. Tom Doherty, CEO and Publisher at Tor, was Jim Baen's former boss when both were at Ace Books, and they stayed in touch and stayed friends when Jim moved on to form Baen. Tom is one of the savviest guys in publishing, saw what Jim was doing, and realized there was an opportunity. Tor didn't have the infrastructure in place, so Tom cut a deal with Jim to offer Tor content through Baen's Webscriptions program. It got the the point where both Tor and Baen announced it. Then someone at Holtzbrink realized the offered content would not be protected by DRM, and pulled the plug. Cue much annoyance all around. (I know Tom Doherty a bit. I can just imagine his reaction, and am glad I wasn't in the area when it occurred...) Holtzbrink eventually reversed its opposition, and the deal is up an running. I understand Holtzbrink got a new CEO who is against DRM, which doubtless helped. But meanwhile, getting traditional publishers involved in ebooks is a "one step forward, two steps back" proposition. I'll take whatever progress I can get. ______ Dennis |
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02-15-2008, 01:49 PM | #63 | |
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I spent an hour creating a nicely formatted Mobi file, but unfortunately it's not allowed to post it here, right? |
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02-15-2008, 01:57 PM | #64 |
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That's probably it - I went with the default, which I think was one of the Windows encodings. I'll remember for next time, but I've found most of them by now, while adding other tweaks & have created a Sony file, but again, probably not a postable one (~1.3MB is the other reason, what with the graphics!)
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02-15-2008, 02:22 PM | #65 |
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Mobipocket Creator bungled up the paragraphs pretty good. The only thing that actually worked was using Adobe Acrobat to output it as HTML 4.01 with CSS. I have yet to format it though with Book Designer.
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02-15-2008, 02:35 PM | #66 |
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So you're saying the old deal is for sure on again? I've read rumors over the past few months, but nothing concrete. Besides that first run of stuff they did in '06 (which I missed & you can't buy anymore darn it) and 'Off Armageddon Reef' (for $18) Webscriptions still has nothing from Tor & there's been no info on The Bar. Have you heard, are they planning new content through Webscriptions or will it be sold through Tor.com?
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02-15-2008, 04:14 PM | #67 |
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A question about the second volume in this trilogy. Is it available in digital format? I don't see either 'The Final Empire' or 'The Well of Ascension' listed on Amazon except in tree-book format.
I don't want to get into reading volume one and have to read volume two in hardback. Anybody got any news about volume two? |
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By the way they keep saying "Watch the Skies" I'd assumed their books are going to be projected onto clouds in my area sometime soon!
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Has anyone yet made a decent conversion with proper paragraphs and graphics?
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02-15-2008, 07:49 PM | #71 |
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I haven't-- am more than a little disappointed at how it turned out-- I had really high hopes that were dashed as soon as I saw "PDF" in the email.
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02-15-2008, 07:58 PM | #72 |
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I opened it in Acrobat 8 pro and saved it as HTML and it looked great, no problem with the missing fl and fi and images worked well. From there it went right into Book Designer and will only take a little formating (of the images mostly) and a TOC. (this was due to the way BD handled the HTML because it looked perfect in IE before the import and the TOC worked in HTML)
(the trial version of 8 Pro works great for this as well as the full version which I have.) -John Last edited by tobiasj; 02-15-2008 at 08:02 PM. |
02-15-2008, 08:31 PM | #73 |
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I'm now up to Chapter 11 in my formatting with Book Designer. I'm making this look as close to the PDF as I can.
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As one of the greedier and lazier members here, I'd like to ask a question:
Is it illegal or immoral for me to ask a more knowledgeable member for a more PRS-500 friendly copy of this file? I'm on the list, so I have the .pdf, but my conversion skills are paltry (and my five year old likes to lock up with Acrobat) so I'm in the market for a tarted up copy of the freebies. Sorry to be standing here with my tentacle out... @ Dennis: do you happen to know anybody at McGraw-Hill? There are a number of International Marine reference texts I'd love to have in digital format. |
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