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Old 04-15-2009, 05:14 PM   #63
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Originally Posted by vickivanv View Post
Hi, y'all! *waves* I help Laurie King with her online outreach, and we had several emails pointing to this thread. I hope y'all don't mind my peeping in. This is a terrific community! I've joined up and look forward to being a part of it, since I read a lot on my iPhone (just finished Little Brother--good stuff!) and hope very much to be reading via Kindle as soon as I can afford one.

I'm so sorry that the download format was unworkable for many of your devices (I feel your pain, btw--I can't get it to download to my iphone). I've sort of been the one pushing for this giveaway since last fall because the Mary Russell series is my very favorite series of all-time, and The Beekeeper's Apprentice is one of my most beloved books. It's long been a dream of mine and many others in the Russell fan community to bring the series to a wider audience via the internet, in addition to merely pushing our extra paperbacks on RL friends and relations.

Ultimately, the publisher handles the giveaway and sets up the process, and although we don't have control over that process, we do pass along feedback we hear about it. And I think the feedback will be well-received--the people at Picador really do seem to be a good bunch and they got behind the giveaway right away when some publishers would have just nixed it outright.

I've made notes of all the comments and concerns here and those that have come through email. One thing I want to make sure I have straight are the formatting issues. My email feedback suggests that straight html and mobi formats are currently the friendliest formats for the most devices. Would y'all agree? Is one better than the other, if you had to pick? I'm hearing that PDFs are very unworkable for many of your devices--and that preprint PDFs cause additional difficulties for some because of the printers' marks on the pages. Is that right? Y'all let me know if I'm missing anything.

Thanks for all the comments here and for the emails sending the link. Oh, and a special hi to Dixie Gal, I'm from the <3 o' Dixie, too!
LRF and ePub would also be a big help. The Sony Readers can handle LRF and the 505 and 700 can handle ePub as well. Some other devices can ePub as well like the BeBook. If you start with a well made HTML, you can use Calibre to convert to ePub, LRF, Mobipocket, and MS Reader. If you'd like some help, feel free to ask. I'll be happy to help.
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