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cybmole · 10-15-2013, 11:26 AM

little or no money to be made from designing for library loans!.

not sure how all countries work but I think basic model is: library pays for 1 epub ( so that's 1 sale for the author) & gets to loan it out many, many times. Publisher sets the limit & it can only be out to one person at a time. I read a lot of epub library loans but I doubt the author gets much.

I do know that in UK, authors get all of 6p each time I borrow a library paperback, but in USA, the author gets zero for a paperback library loan. USA library model is it sone hard copy book = 1 sale, then loan it out until it falls apart then buy another....

Kindle (mobi or the newer AZW3) from epub is straightforward in that you can use kindle for PC as your viewer and with a program called kindlegen which I think is freeware, or with calibre as your main conversion tool. there's a forum for calibre, not sure where yo'd do to ask about kindlegen but I'm sure others will tell us.

but if you want elegant only maybe you could stick with the market leading colour tablet devices: ipad, & kindle fire & publish only via amazon & ibooks

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cybmole Wizard Posts: 3,720 Karma: 1759970 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: none	little or no money to be made from designing for library loans!. not sure how all countries work but I think basic model is: library pays for 1 epub ( so that's 1 sale for the author) & gets to loan it out many, many times. Publisher sets the limit & it can only be out to one person at a time. I read a lot of epub library loans but I doubt the author gets much. I do know that in UK, authors get all of 6p each time I borrow a library paperback, but in USA, the author gets zero for a paperback library loan. USA library model is it sone hard copy book = 1 sale, then loan it out until it falls apart then buy another.... Kindle (mobi or the newer AZW3) from epub is straightforward in that you can use kindle for PC as your viewer and with a program called kindlegen which I think is freeware, or with calibre as your main conversion tool. there's a forum for calibre, not sure where yo'd do to ask about kindlegen but I'm sure others will tell us. but if you want elegant only maybe you could stick with the market leading colour tablet devices: ipad, & kindle fire & publish only via amazon & ibooks Last edited by cybmole; 10-15-2013 at 11:30 AM.