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Old 10-07-2016, 05:53 AM   #27
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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans View Post
Heh. Yeah, I don't know much about the selly selly, I just know about the converty converty!

But I really don't touch designing Fixed Layout books with a ten-foot pole, I would shift all that pain and suffering onto you!

Does Kobo have their own brand of Fixed Layout EPUB? Is that actually sellable there or is it like B&N's mythical one? Or am I just going crazy again? Is this another case of only the Big Publishers get to do it and no one else?

Edit: I just went looking up some Kobo Fixed Layout Info and stumbled across this:


Me too. Bed time now! ... I should have just continued referencing the previous topic. I knew it was a bad idea getting me all riled up about "Real Page Numbers" again...
Geeezee...it's 2:46 a.m., and I'm still doing this crap.

To answer your question(s);
  1. There IS a real fxl format for B&N; it's essentially iBA (iBooksAuthor) wrapped up in a B&N wrapper, and it is used ONLY for books to be made and sold on the NookKids' platform. Not only do the publishers have to have a regular publishing contract with B&N (not a self-pubbing one, mind you), but you can't even OBTAIN the NookKids' software until you prove that you're competent to make the books. Which--wait for it--you do by providing them with sample NookKids' books that you've aleady made. Yes: you read that correctly.
  2. IBooks has FXL for:
  3. ePUB2 and
  4. ePUB3.
  5. Kobobooks will publish and sell ePUB3s made for iBooks. So, yes, that exists, but as you note--they are quite dissuasive about the idea, generally.
  6. Amazon has their own, completely unique (to be redundant) set of criteria and standards for their FXL eBooks. Those are:
  7. Kids' books, which can be handmade, like my shop does, or by using Kindle Kids' Book Creator;
  8. Comic books (really only viable with the Kindle Comic Creator);
  9. and Kindle Textbooks, which are the type of FXL that can zoom--but the font sizes cannot be changed, etc. This is the format to which I was referring in my various comments in this thred. This format has a number of good uses, but, IMHO, not on text-heavy pages. This is basically a PDF wrapped in a wrapper that functions (somewhat) in the MOBI environs.

Now: off to bed, dammit!

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