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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans
Hmmm, all I know of Web Annotation off the top of my head is:
I last wrote about them in:
I have no idea what they've been doing recently though or how well their current tech works.
From a quick skimming of their website, it looks like annotating PDFs are handled.
(They were the ones way back in 2014–2017ish pushing EPUB in the browser, and last I heard they had HTML annotations working too. Also, they were one of the big pushes behind the W3C Web Annotation standards.) |
Yes, I do remember their push for the Web annotation, etc. I'd forgotten about them--I'll dig into it. I need something that I can convince Teamwork to integrate into the web system for the PM environment. Sigh.
Thanks, Tex!
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Originally Posted by Quoth
Yes, no fun. I got fed up with it (selling on ebay or doing repairs). The packing, cost, getting broken in transit...
"It's smashed!"
-- "Couldn't be."
"Oh, your double packed box was fantastic, but the guy threw it off the back of the truck. I'm suing them!"
The customer/client would have to buy the Kobo direct. Or Kobo ship direct. Anything else can be a nightmare.
Baffles me actually people wanting to publish ebooks and only relying on a desktop viewer (and having it full screen instead of an ebook sized window). I think the minimum is one Kobo, one real Kindle (not a Fire or App) and an Android phone with as small a screen as possible, with 3rd party epub app, Kindle app, Kobo App and Google Playbooks app as minimum. Add iPhone, tablets (android & iPad) and other ereaders as desired or budget / sales allow.
Still a lot of new laptops or desktop monitors that are about 1366 x 768 and thus rubbish to preview PDFs for POD.
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I would say that the
vast majority of my customers either a) don't have devices or b) don't sideload our files onto those devices. Don't know how. they use KP3 and they're pretty happy with that, or some combo of KP3, along with ADE or Books Reader for Mac/iPad or the like.
You gotta remember, if you've forgotten, oh-out-of-the-direct-to-author-business-One, that most self-published authors do not think of themselves as PUBLISHERS. And don't see the need to behave as a publisher would. You and I think about these things differently than do they.
Hitch