[Hitch]

Originally Posted by Quoth

Hitch could take your content and make it a regular reflowable epub2 for upload to Amazon and almost everywhere else. It will then work in some fashion on everything and a two page spread source image can be a single image to nearly fit a screen in landscape device mode if supported, though images will be a bit small on a 4.3" phone or 5" eink in portrait.

Yes, but this particular poster would not get what s/he wants. That's an important consideration. What we think of it--you and I and the other old pros--doesn't really matter. Not...not really.

What matters is what the publisher wants; if they end up learning a harder lesson, say, at Amazon with a KQN or the like, that's...that's different. It's not really our job, either here on MR or in my shop, to say "you CAN'T do that." I try to explain...but I don't hold interventions when they decide to go FXL. Just so you know. :-)

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I'm feeling rather raw and fraught on this topic at the mo; I have a pair of lady clients, who did a kids' book that they wanted for Halloween (sigh) and we did it reflowable, AFTER considerable discussion and guess what? They're not happy. I can't make them happy, without making it FXL and even then, they won't be happy. Their last "counter offer" was, "well, make it so the 4-line couplets can't break across pages and we'll be okay with it," which, wait for it, we can't do. Not in any "right" coding way. (sigh).

Many apps can do landscape and some really old kindles do rotation automatically. Some apps and eink devices only do portrait.

Okay, I'll bite. What older Kindles rotated like that, for a two-pane/panel/column view???? I realize I'm getting senile, but I honestly don't recall that before...hmmmm, what the first Fire?

Download the 87p Beatrix Potter and compare it on phone, eink and tablet.
Google Playstore has some free Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle comics which sort of work in Google Play books on a 6.8" eink, but of course are better on a 10" tablet.

I do think that that's a good idea.

Smashwords (now part of D2D) redistribute to Apple, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Tolino, Scribd etc. Via reflowable epub, or poorer quality from MS Doc.
Amazon KDP works best with reflowable epub upload.
Google Playstore Books works best with reflowable epub.

I do feel I should note that SW and some of the other distributors do NOT have DRM, if you are wanting DRM for your ebook file. 'Nuff said, don't want to get into some DRM discussion, but it's worth knowing if you're the publisher.

With 3 uploads using reflowable epub2 you access phones, Fire, Tablets, apps, eInk; almost 100% of the Market and probably every eink based ereader in the last 12 years (some older that that are still going and most of those can work with epub or Mobi via epub2 uploaded to Amazon KDP).

Yes, but again--it's not what s/he wants. They want a book that will appear in spreads. They don't really seem to care about the percentage of the market--that over 50%--that won't download it, or see it, or be able to see it that way. NOR, for that matter, those that like me, don't care to read in landscape, which I do not. {shrug}. That's their choice. Every publishing decision is a choice. Every branching on that path routes the book differently, changes this or that, this marketplace, etc. It is, to be fair, their choice to make.

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