20
Apr
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the ebook generation
Obviously, I am interested in the facts and figures concerning ebooks. I learned for example that only 0,3% of the total booksales in the Netherlands consists out of ebooks. Doesn’t sound to impressive. I like the numbers Amazon gave better: the sales of ebooks was larger than the sales of hardcover books in the first quarter of 2010. Note: hardcover books are clearly a small subset of the total print sales, so it sounded better than it was.
At the beginning of 2011, however: Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: ebook, facts and figures, pdf
20
Apr
Posted in Being a start-up, Making a book, publishing | No Comments »
That’s the question. The first paragraph looked like good news; as long as it was an adapted (MyMaps) map, I could use Google Maps. I think. That is, as long as I assume that pdf’s and e-books count as print. Hm… not exactly that. But not exactly software either. An app is software allright. But digital documents are kind of undefined in the middle.
Anyways, after re-reading the Google Maps rules and regulations, it seems like I am still destined to make my own maps.
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Tags: copyright, digital documents, google maps
15
Apr
Posted in Being a start-up, Making a book | 2 Comments »
Quick tip.
Indesign CS5 is great to make the first draft of a epub document. A great new feature is that chapter headings can serve as page breaks, delivering a neatly organized epub file.
Slight (understatement) problem though: when exporting your indesign file to epub, all the separate chapters become exactly that: separate xhtml documents, one for each chapter. And now you run into the internal links pitfall. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: anchor, anchor tags, broken links, bug, epub, indesign
