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Originally Posted by David Gaughran
I'm sorry to hear there was a problem with the Smashwords EPUB version - and I'm surprised. I test everything extensively myself, and I have sold over 100 copies through Smashwords alone and I have had no reports of this.
Would you be able to give me a little more detail on the formatting issues you are seeing (what kind, where in the book, what reader you are using, when you downloaded the book?) - I would appreciate that very much.
I hand code all the HTML myself so that the book renders perfectly on any e-reader, tablet or phone. The Smashwords Meatgrinder can do awful things to these books, but there are ways of minimizing the damage that their system will do, and I thought the EPUB version was in good condition - I do take a lot of care to make sure everything bearing my name is a professional product.
I am happy to send you the hand-coded EPUB version (which is much prettier than the version the Smashwords system spits out) if you PM me your email address.
Dave
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Thanks again Dave
I've already answered your private message, and declined your very kind offer since, as I mentioned, I already knew that Smashwords' meatgrinder often doesn't do a good job. But since I read your comment above and since I do ePub ebooks by hand myself I'll send you my private email in another message so you can send me the ebook and I can learn from you.
My concerns about the Smashwords version fall into two main areas:
- There are many bolded subheadings, and they are flush below the section above with a space below the subheadings above the material to which they refer. That probably doesn't explain what I mean, so I'll give an example
material in section above Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer
Subheading for the next section
Start of material for next section Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer
- There is a list of contributors (I think from memory that's what it is) which has names and URLs. The text is justified, so that there are many big spaces between the names and the URLs since the URLs won't break. I know that most people could tell their reader to go to left align instead of justified, but it would have been so easy to make that section left aligned in the CSS.
Thanks again for your response.