[Psymon]

Well, gee, I was getting so enthused here and now my bubble has been burst.

Originally Posted by Hitch

Much of what was attempted in the ePUB won't work in the MOBI, like trying to force words to stay together, etc. I don't remember everything that was discussed on this book; I know something that seemed to work originally was shown to not work by simply enlarging the font...

I think the latter issue you're referring to was when I was using that other font, in ADE the words "broke" at the end of lines wherever that font used special characters -- it wasn't when the font size changed, necessarily, but if/when one resized the window. I guess ADE doesn't recognize that "nowrap" CSS spec (nor does it seem to recognize smallcaps either).

But that font issue doesn't seem to be a problem at all with this other, new Fell font, and even though it's nice to make use of that "nowrap" thing, it doesn't totally destroy my work not to have it, and I could live without it. It does seem to be becoming clear, though, that my ebook will look the best iBooks -- at least there's that.

but he can always just take his ePUB and drop it on KP, and see what happens. It's only a minute or two out of his life.

I'm assuming that by KP you mean Kindle Previewer? Does that do an accurate job of displaying one's ebook as it really looks (and will work) in Kindle?

And I can "just take my epub and drop it" on there, it doesn't have to be converted or anything? I thought it did, that it had to be in MOBI format first.

Forgive me, I know so little and sometimes just don't know where to start. After nearly two decades in web design, though, I do understand what you've been stressing, Hitch, about backwards-compatibility and stuff, but the issues with cross-platform compatibility (let alone backwards-compatibility) seem so much more complicated than anything I experienced in web design. That latter experience of mine certainly has helped a lot, but in other respects I feel like I'm starting all over again, from scratch.

(Perfect place to insert a chinscratch)

BUT, again, cannot stress this strongly enough: what will you do for the millions of people who have Kindles, Kindle2's and DX'es, that can't display an embedded font?

Well, as I've mentioned, this first book of mine is in two parts/halves -- a modern English half and then the late-Middle English half (both of which are basically the exact same text, just in two "different" languages). For amazon I could just do that version in modern English only, I suppose -- it'd be a shame for those people to be missing out on half the "fun", of course, but I guess I could just sell it for half the price as the iBooks version.

I guess while I'm here and asking about amazon, it does seem that my current epub also works in ADE, which I understand is what other non-Kindle readers work in? Where do I go to market it for that platform? Is that, like, Barnes & Noble or something?

I'm so clueless about so much, but I don't know where to go from here -- there doesn't seem to be a forum in these forums here specifically for "Okay, now you've designed your first epub that works in iBooks, and here's what to do next, and where to go next", kinda thing. D'oh...