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Originally Posted by Hitch
Wolfie is right. Folks on ipads/phone seem to want to buy apps, games and videos--they are consumers of that type of content. Books? Not so much, by a huge margin. We have, as I've said before, every type of author known to man, other than hardcore porn, and the numbers we see (excepting, curiously enough, one guy with a book on self-hypnosis) are 1%, tops.
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Thanks (to you both) for that rather enlightening perspective -- I know that this has been said (if not stressed) before, but it is starting to really sink in. I'm slow... sometimes.
Well, as I've said before, with this current project I was much more concerned with trying to get my book to look the way that I wanted it to than I was in sales, but now -- thanks to Jellby and that font set he found -- it would seem that I've come up a way to make it a little more cross-platform compatible. At least, it would seem to work reasonably okay in ADE, too, as an epub, but I haven't yet tried to convert it into MOBI format for amazon -- and it would certainly seem that amazon is the market one would want to reach out to as far as sales go.
I don't know the first thing about MOBI format -- any suggestions on where/how to proceed from here in that direction? I know there's a forum here on Calibre, and is that where I would want to start, if only by browsing the archives in there?
Pardon my utter ignorance -- I'm really so very new to all this epublishing stuff!
