FREE BOOK: JA Konrath

[JA Konrath]

Originally Posted by Slite

That being said I downloaded Origin, converted it to an fb2 and a couple of chapters into it absolutely LOVE the book and am totally flabbergasted at the fact that he couldn't find a publisher for it.

You and me both.

[MickeyC]

Originally Posted by arvsinha

He is one of the early proponents of giving away free ebooks.
He knows that most of his audience is through sale of paper books.
He is trying to open new avenues by giving away free ebooks.
I think that Joe is a pretty approachable guy - you can try to contact him with your problem - I think he would seriously try to give you a html version.

I, for one, did manage to convert it to prc without any problem.
Cheers

I just downloaded Whiskey Sour and converted it to ePub and loaded it on my Sony and it reads fine.

Thanks JA.

[gwynevans]

Originally Posted by cassidym

I just downloaded Whiskey Sour and converted it to ePub and loaded it on my Sony and it reads fine.

Thanks JA.

Which route did you use, out of interest? I ran the PDF through MobiCreator and while it seems to have picked up all the text, it missed a dozen or so chapter headers and didn't deal well with the multi-line italic sections.

[gwynevans]

Originally Posted by JA Konrath

Pdf to Kindle format is a HUGE pain to convert, so let me know if there are formatting issues and I'll try to fix them.

PDF to anything is a huge pain! :-) Pretty much the next step to anywhere is to get to clean HTML, then running it through Calibre should provide a reasonable spread of formats.

You might want to take a read through Jeffrey Carver's experiences in the thread here if/when you have time!

[MickeyC]

Originally Posted by gwynevans

PDF to anything is a huge pain! :-) Pretty much the next step to anywhere is to get to clean HTML, then running it through Calibre should provide a reasonable spread of formats.

You might want to take a read through Jeffrey Carver's experiences in the thread here if/when you have time!

Found it uneventful using Calibre to convert the PDF to ePub.

[gwynevans]

It's OK, but it misses out the picture of the note on page 2, and all the chapter headings are just text, so no table of contents - it does get the multi-page italics (e.g. in Chapter 4) correct though.