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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Actually, it's easier to make things work for ADE then it is to make things work for iBooks and if you make thins work for iBooks, they may not work for ADE and in terms of sales, you'd sell more selling for other platforms then iBooks only.
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The only reason -- or reasons -- that I'm designing for iBooks only right now are twofold: the only "real" portable ereaders that I have access to are an iPad and a Mac laptop, and I'd really like to be able to SEE (for sure) that my designs are coming out okay, not just through some simulated "previewer" program for on my PC. Secondly -- and perhaps more importantly -- I'm still only working on my very first ebook, which unfortunately incorporates something that apparently will
only work correctly on the iPad (and on that, it works just
beautifully!).
That latter issue leaves me in somewhat of a conundrum over what to do if/when I'd like to publish my ebook on Amazon and/or wherever else -- but I'll worry about that down the road, I'm still just trying to get my ebook done and out on iBooks for now.
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As for ADE and most Readers, find a copy of Sony's Reader Library. That will show you what the ePub will look like on a 6" screen using ADE 1.7.2. So you can see how the ePub will look/work. Then you don't actually need a Reader for testing.
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Oh, that's certainly encouraging to know -- I do have that installed on my PC now. I've got ADE 2.0, though, and I seem to recall mention elsewhere somewhere that for getting an
accurate perspective on what my ebook will look like on "real" readers that make use of ADE, I should actually have the version you mentioned (1.7.2) -- is that correct?
If so, won't those readers eventually be upgrading, too?
Also, on a related note, I'm still quite new to all of this -- which readers make use of ADE? Is it much of a market share that I'd be losing out on if I decided to not concentrate getting my book to look good on that (if only for now)?