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Originally Posted by briegull
I work with a small non-profit land trust and have done their website. Last year we brought out a 118 page Nature Guide in paper, full color, and it sold very well for $15 in the local area. I formatted it in InDesign, had it commercially printed and it will continue to be offered locally. Since it is quite graphics intensive it is also quite bulky when the whole thing is turned into epub format (200+MB).
I have also broken it into three parts - hikes in the area, plant/bird identification, and history, to make it more managable. They look good on my iphone and ipad - but will they SELL from our website? (I'm thinking that at the moment I'm not going to turn them into Kindle format.) It's a fairly specific place that not a great many people visit in a summer..
But is it "worth it" ? Has anyone broken down a book like this? Will it SELL? Any advice to give?
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1- Pdf or one of the ebookstore-specific fixed-layout formats might be more appropriate.
2- indesign may not be the best tool for creating compact ebooks since it is primarily a pbook tool and it may not compress/rescale images as efficiently as an ebook-focused tool.
3- skipping Kindle means skipping half to two-thirds of likely customers.
4- the primary reason for doing an ebook is to open up your book's market to a larger audience, potentially global in scope. If your book is solely of local interest, an ebook edition may not be worth the effort, but if it is a niche subject but of broadly distributed interest, it likely will be worth the effort to convert.