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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
In all seriousness, have you considered checking to see if there is any e-book building talent in your fan base? Would they do some work for acknowledgement.
Remember, backlist piracy is done by fans of the works....
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It would certainly make sense, yes? But by the time we realized the marvelous help available, we were already deep into the puzzle and it's hard to wrest a writer free from a puzzle.
Besides, much of what we want to offer is the books we wanted to write, not the ones NY turned them into, so we're doing little bits and pieces of editing as we go along. That's not something readers can do. The physical conversion processes can be done at night while we veg in front of the TV.
Our readers are great. They offer suggestions after we put the books out. We make changes to the files and offer the new files for free to all who have already purchased. Time consuming, yes, but it means that ultimately we'll understand what we're doing and have a process that turns out the books as we want them viewed.
(We won't even get into the question of covers! But in case you're interested, I've got slide shows of my covers in progress on my
blog While learning about epublishing, I also had to renew my acquaintance with art and learn about computer art! Wheee....been a busy year!
Most of our readers have felt they're some of the best looking books they've seen yet. As I think I said, we're working on the ToC's and embedded fonts problems now, (on suggestions made by readers along with hints how to do them) so they'll only get better.
I really shouldn't even be up here...we're trying to keep a low profile until we're really ready to go with more of the backlist (and new books) on the "shelves." But...there ya go!