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Originally Posted by 1eduard
Thank you very much for your reply!
A few comments:
1 I don't live in The States (The Netherlands, Europe)
2 My book (written part) is almost finished. I started it some years ago.
3 So, I want to publish it soon (3-6 months)
4 I already have some experience with InDesign and web design
5 I work with LINUX
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Oookay. I'm honestly not sure, aside from 5, what the other elements have in terms of relevance to the discussion. In fact, 5 would, I should think, make LO even more appropos.
Vis 4: the road to eBook hell, I must add, is paved and a downward slope, iced over, making for an ever-faster,
speedy runway to death, with "I already have some experience with...web design."
Trust me when I tell you, the WORST and most effed-up eBooks I've EVER SEEN, were built by people who informed me--me being mere crust and nightsoil off their shoes, mind you--that
THEY knew and understood web design and HTML and CSS.
I have lost
track of the ridiculous things I've seen in eBooks, that "web designers" put in them, not remotely understanding that
none of them would work outside of a browser, and most of them, not even then. I have one of recent memory that three of us--three, two college-degreed, trained
programmers and myself, mind you--could
NEVER figure out what the hell this bozo thought he was doing. Literally.
Could not figure out what the frack he thought was going to occur. Now, that's special, when you can confuse three working adults,
all of whom work in that neck of the woods, using only CSS and HTML (and of course, some random JS and JSON, that he must have picked up gods-alone-know-where....) [sigh].
SO, I would proceed carefully on the "I already have some web design" experience portion of your ebook program. But hey....it's
your book and
your time to invest/spend/waste. I'm mentioning this solely so that are aware that these pitfalls do exist and will bite you in the gluteus Maximus.
Since you seem to have your mind kinda made up, I think I'll bow out here.
Hitch