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Originally Posted by suelange
zelda_pinwheel,
Yeah, we had a long talk about drm. I was totally lost about it at the time (back in November) and so didn't pay any attention. Vonda told me about mobileread a couple of weeks ago and so I've been perusing various posts here and now I understand about drm. I'm glad the BVC honchos made the final decision the way they did. To be honest, I think we did it this way just because it's a pain the ass to keep track of. We're an author's collective and have a lot of talent in different areas, but nobody wants to volunteer putting together a lot of legal mumbo jumbo that isn't going to make a difference and in the end will probably hurt us.
As for formats, Vonda and I are going to push for more formats. I myself am launching my book this weekend as pdf, but hope to have most of the formats I've learned about here available within a month. I'm trying to decide if I should delay announcing it until I've got all the formats in place. The book's been reviewed at a couple of places stating it's coming out on March 8th so I really need to have it out, but I don't want to turn people off. I've finally got the software figured out, but I'm not looking forward to reading the damn thing one more time to get it into html.
I mean, I'm podcasting this thing, I'm doing an interactive, serialized version of various bits of it, I'm doing yet another reading from it this weekend. I just can't stand living through Marla Gershe going off her nut again. I mean how many times can I go through catharsis already? It's exhausting.
Stay tuned.
And thanks!
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tee hee ! i know, it's kind of insane making all the formats ! that is one reason why i suggested feedbooks : you input the text once, and it generates any format you want on the fly. you might want to take a look at the feedbooks wysiwyg interface even if you don't want to distribute through their plateform : you can ask for a "preview" of your book in any format to see how they look, without publishing them. if you generate an epub, it can be easily converted to other formats. also check out calibre, which is a free conversion and library management app developed by one of our members ; look in the calibre forum for info. and there are some good tools which might be helpful to you in the epub forum. anyway don't hesitate to ask for help if you need it.
drm is a pain in the ass for EVERYBODY so i'm glad that for once laziness (and i mean that in the best possible way !
) and common sense joined up on the side of good !
