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Originally Posted by JSWolf
If you start with a good HTML version, you can then use Calibre to convert to ePub, MS Reader, Mobipocket, and LRF. That will take care of most of your audience. And it's fairly simple as well. Then all you need do is have people specify what version they want and you can send them what they want. Oh and for the LRF, don't do headers as they don't have any use and just take up page space and for the base font, use 10 point.
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Thanks - I did download a freeware app of some kind to investigate generating other formats, but once my publisher reported the issues with Gmail and attachments I wasn't too keen to invest a lot of time and effort into something which possibly could not be sent out to customers.
Re the download link for a file, that requires infrastructure and programming, which doesn't fit with the intention to offer the books for under US$3.50 each. I offered to code up a php delivery system but the publisher prefers to use their own people, and didn't want to put me to the trouble. Getting their people to do it means big dollars, and the ebooks would have to sell thousands of copies before they'd consider it.
On top of everything else I'm behind schedule with Hal Spacejock book 5, and they'd rather I acted more like an author than tech support ;-)