Forum: Amazon Kindle
05-14-2009, 01:25 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 5,278
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Forum: News
05-14-2009, 01:17 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 2,134
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Forum: Sony Reader
05-10-2009, 11:07 PM
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Replies: 1
Views: 1,494
Taking Screenshots of PRS-505?
Haven't had much luck searching. Is it possible to take screenshots in the Sony Reader? It's easy on the Kindle and iPhone...
Thanks,
Dave
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Forum: Bookeen
05-08-2009, 11:57 AM
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Replies: 20
Views: 21,780
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Forum: PDF
05-07-2009, 09:27 PM
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Replies: 27
Views: 7,199
But they may not display how you want. Kindle 1...
But they may not display how you want. Kindle 1 doesn't do tables at all. ePub in Sony Reader will truncate them if they're too wide, so it's impossible to see some of the text. Some readers won't...
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Forum: News
05-06-2009, 05:15 PM
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Replies: 27
Views: 4,537
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Forum: ePub
05-06-2009, 11:35 AM
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Replies: 6
Views: 4,073
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Forum: News
05-06-2009, 09:18 AM
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Replies: 27
Views: 4,537
Quality is a huge problem in the industry. But...
Quality is a huge problem in the industry. But publishers expect to pay almost nothing for eBook creation, and there isn't a budget for a full proofread, even at offshore wages. And the errors aren't...
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Forum: Amazon Kindle
05-05-2009, 08:26 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 4,062
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Forum: News
05-04-2009, 09:19 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 5,285
[1] Actual production costs--typesetting, eBook...
[1] Actual production costs--typesetting, eBook creation, etc.--are dropping rapidly, every year. One result is that the U.S. typesetting industry has practically been destroyed. Everything is moving...
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Forum: News
05-04-2009, 09:04 PM
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Replies: 58
Views: 10,541
I've probably been around for ten or fifteen...
I've probably been around for ten or fifteen thousand books. One was done in TeX (a computer science author who insisted). I think the vast majority of trade books are now done in InDesign; it used...
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Forum: ePub
05-04-2009, 07:06 PM
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Replies: 99
Views: 46,018
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Forum: News
05-04-2009, 06:27 PM
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Replies: 58
Views: 10,541
That was my first thought, too. But we had...
That was my first thought, too. But we had someone look at the internals of the PDF, and they found actual space characters, with a text block backed up on top of them, overwriting the spaces. Wish I...
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Forum: News
05-04-2009, 05:26 PM
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Replies: 58
Views: 10,541
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Forum: News
05-04-2009, 05:23 PM
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Replies: 58
Views: 10,541
Things are slightly better with "application"...
Things are slightly better with "application" files (InDesign, etc.). If done by a decent typesetter, the split paragraph problem shouldn't happen, for example. But I do remember a book where most of...
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Forum: News
05-04-2009, 04:33 PM
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Replies: 58
Views: 10,541
I think the cost to make an eBook is too small....
I think the cost to make an eBook is too small. Yes, the print book is essentially always delivered to the printer as a PDF, made from a page layout program like Quark or InDesign. And the publisher...
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Forum: Amazon Kindle
05-04-2009, 03:29 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 9,329
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Forum: Workshop
05-04-2009, 02:32 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 1,821
We call it a space break, and the little...
We call it a space break, and the little ornaments or graphics would be the space break ornament. Most times it's just what looks like a blank line or two, but please don't use blank lines!
Dave
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Forum: News
05-04-2009, 11:53 AM
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Replies: 129
Views: 25,499
What's the point if they don't improve the...
What's the point if they don't improve the Mobi/Kindle format? It would be a waste to have that large screen and not be able to do 1997-era CSS. How would you do a reasonable-looking newspaper...
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Forum: Introduce Yourself
05-02-2009, 09:13 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,527
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Forum: News
05-02-2009, 06:27 PM
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Replies: 58
Views: 10,541
You would likely be shocked at how much the...
You would likely be shocked at how much the publisher pays to have an eBook produced. Years ago all the books I worked on were checked by an outside proofreader. But that expense was probably six...
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Forum: Introduce Yourself
05-02-2009, 11:57 AM
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,527
New to MobileRead (but not the industry)
Hi Everyone,
I've done a bit of lurking here, but this is my first post. I've been involved in eBook production since 2001, and now spend most of my waking hours producing ePubs for major...
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