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Originally Posted by LGN
Maybe this is a useful 'feature', when I open an ePUB, have Sigil REMEMBER that folder so next time I want to do a 'save as...' I directly am in that folder and not in some folder from a previous session, thus browse to the current folder to save a 'new version'. I have had several times I forgot about it and gave the file a new name and saved it and the file ended up in some other folder from a previous session I used Sigil.
<filed under category: useful, intuitive>
Cheers 
So what's next? A special checker checking for forbidden words/links that will have an ePUB rejected from iBooks? |
Warning! FROTH ALERT!
As some of you who follow my tweets/FB heard this past week, I literally had two books rejected by Apple--books from a NYTimes Bestselling author, mind you--
because my tagline on the copyright page said "Digital editions for Nook™, Kindle™ and iBooks™ produced by...."
Now, the reason I did this--specifically stating those platforms--was because when I first started out, just putting "Ebooks produced by.." had people thinking I'd made PDF's, which is still what a shocking number of people consider to be "ebooks." So, then I tried "epub and mobi (or prc)," but that confused them. So finally I stuck the tradenames in there, and shrugged.
Enter Apple, who has dillied around (yes, that's a euphemism) for THREE MONTHS with those damned books, and have now announced (after first insisting for TWO months that they were being refused because they didn't have "TOC's," even whilst I sent them screenshots SHOWING the bloody things), that it's the
words--
the words--"Nook" and "Kindle" on the bloody copyright page. Not links, mind you--just the WORDS in my credit line.
Apple has, in the words of one of my clients, starting drinking waaaay too much of its own Kool-Aid. I'm infuriated that my client had to go through this; I'm absolutely gobsmacked at Apple, which clearly has lost its mind; and I'm aghast at how much epub3 has rolled over for--who else?--Apple.
I don't have a choice; I have to change my tagline and play by their rules, because I have several clients that have small imprints that do nothing but video books (good, bad, indifferent...that's their business). Making their books IS my business, and I have employees to support. But if I were a hobbyist or dilettante, I wouldn't be playing along.
Hitch