Hello from Scotland

muckledug · 12-03-2010, 08:26 AM

Hi there,
My name is Davie Park and I'm in the process of setting up a small publishing business.
I have some experience of 'traditional' publishing but little knowledge of the digital side of things but it will certainly be an important part of my business.
I'm here to learn and, hopefully, you good people can help.

Davie.

ImogenRose · 12-03-2010, 09:15 AM

Hello and welcome to MR!

Imogen

desertgrandma · 12-03-2010, 09:18 AM

Welcome to MobileRead, Davie.

Valmore Daniels · 12-03-2010, 09:24 AM

welcome

good luck with your startup!

Williamlk · 12-03-2010, 09:52 AM

Welcome to MR!

happy_terd · 12-03-2010, 11:17 AM

Hello and welcome to MR!!!

desertblues · 12-03-2010, 03:40 PM

Davie, welcom to MR from the Netherlands

williemeikle · 12-03-2010, 05:35 PM

Welcome Dave. I'm another Scot, in exile in Newfoundland at the moment.

But as a Scottish writer, I'm always happy to see home-grown publishing initiatives. I'll be looking out for you.

Willie

MickeyC · 12-03-2010, 06:02 PM

Hi Davie and welcome to MobileRead

Sandra Edwards · 12-03-2010, 06:58 PM

Welcome to MR! Best of luck with your new publishing endeavor :-)

Sandy

neilmarr · 12-04-2010, 05:37 AM

Good to have your company, Davie. Would be interested to hear more about your publishing plans. I've headed up the editorial side of our own indie house for the past ten years (link below) and, although we've always covered paperback titles with ebook editions, we've really beefed up the digital side of things over the past eighteen months. It can be a muckle technical challenge at times. Best of luck and Slainte for Hogmanay. Neil

GeoffC · 12-05-2010, 05:57 AM

Welcome to mobileread ....

Check out the Wiki, too, for information ...

Slainte (for everyday, not just Hogmanay)

muckledug · 12-07-2010, 06:06 AM

Thanks for the welcome folks - I hope your goodwill remains when I start annoying you with silly questions!

muckledug · 12-07-2010, 07:45 AM

Cheers, Neil. I checked out the bewrite website - very impressive I must say. It certainly shows what can be done. My plans are relatively modest at the moment. I have my sights set on a potentially profitable non-fiction niche which I believe is best exploited digitally. I'm a one man band and my experience of publishing, other than a stint as a proof reader just after leaving university, has been in a strictly amateur context.
I have always worked with PDF files created from Word documents. My printer prefers them and the results are predictable. Rather than duplicating work, it would be wonderful if I could simply convert to the various ebook formats from either the doc file or the PDF but I have had very erratic results with the converters I have tried so far. Image handling in particular has been a real problem. I have no knowledge of html and, to be honest, have no real desire to get into that. However, conversion will have to be done 'in house' - and that means me!
I did find a really good online converter which produced a flawless html ebook from a PDF. I believe that auto-conversion from html to epub and mobipocket is quite accurate as long as the code is 'clean' (whatever that means).
The structure of the html ebook that was produced is similar to a website, i.e. seperated into pages including an index page and with navigation between pages. How one then converts this collection of files lord only knows. I've tried using Calibre to do this but, for some reason, each file is recognised as a zip file and each page within the ebook folder is treated seperately. I had a fond idea that it might be as simple as just clicking convert and hey presto - job done. You're no doubt sniggering at my niaivety!
You can see I've a lot to learn but that's why I'm here.

Aw the best,
Davie.

12-03-2010, 08:26 AM	#1
muckledug Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2010 Device: none	Hello from Scotland Hi there, My name is Davie Park and I'm in the process of setting up a small publishing business. I have some experience of 'traditional' publishing but little knowledge of the digital side of things but it will certainly be an important part of my business. I'm here to learn and, hopefully, you good people can help. Davie.

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neilmarr neilmarr Posts: 7,216 Karma: 6000059 Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Monaco-Menton, France Device: sony	Good to have your company, Davie. Would be interested to hear more about your publishing plans. I've headed up the editorial side of our own indie house for the past ten years (link below) and, although we've always covered paperback titles with ebook editions, we've really beefed up the digital side of things over the past eighteen months. It can be a muckle technical challenge at times. Best of luck and Slainte for Hogmanay. Neil

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muckledug Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2010 Device: none	Thanks for the welcome folks - I hope your goodwill remains when I start annoying you with silly questions!

12-07-2010, 07:45 AM	#14
muckledug Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2010 Device: none	Cheers, Neil. I checked out the bewrite website - very impressive I must say. It certainly shows what can be done. My plans are relatively modest at the moment. I have my sights set on a potentially profitable non-fiction niche which I believe is best exploited digitally. I'm a one man band and my experience of publishing, other than a stint as a proof reader just after leaving university, has been in a strictly amateur context. I have always worked with PDF files created from Word documents. My printer prefers them and the results are predictable. Rather than duplicating work, it would be wonderful if I could simply convert to the various ebook formats from either the doc file or the PDF but I have had very erratic results with the converters I have tried so far. Image handling in particular has been a real problem. I have no knowledge of html and, to be honest, have no real desire to get into that. However, conversion will have to be done 'in house' - and that means me! I did find a really good online converter which produced a flawless html ebook from a PDF. I believe that auto-conversion from html to epub and mobipocket is quite accurate as long as the code is 'clean' (whatever that means). The structure of the html ebook that was produced is similar to a website, i.e. seperated into pages including an index page and with navigation between pages. How one then converts this collection of files lord only knows. I've tried using Calibre to do this but, for some reason, each file is recognised as a zip file and each page within the ebook folder is treated seperately. I had a fond idea that it might be as simple as just clicking convert and hey presto - job done. You're no doubt sniggering at my niaivety! You can see I've a lot to learn but that's why I'm here. Aw the best, Davie.