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Showing posts with label ebooks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ebooks. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Speaking of "Being Green"...
Monday, March 9, 2009
Monday, March 2, 2009
Go Green! Read an eBook!
March is being celebrated at All Romance eBooks (ARe) as "Save a tree. Preserve the planet. Go Green and read an ebook." month.
Won't you do your part? :D
Sunday, February 8, 2009
This? Or This?
This?
Or this?
Lately I've noticed a lot of authors posting their flats. (A flat is the full cover a print book, which includes the spine and back.) In the ebook business, ebooks don't get flats because there's no need for a spine or back cover.
Personally, although I like to see what the whole book will look like, most of the time I prefer to show just my cover. It takes up less room, for one thing. And the front appears much more dramatic without the rest of it.
But curiosity prompts me to ask people if a flat makes any difference when they peruse a cover. Comments?
Or this?
Lately I've noticed a lot of authors posting their flats. (A flat is the full cover a print book, which includes the spine and back.) In the ebook business, ebooks don't get flats because there's no need for a spine or back cover.
Personally, although I like to see what the whole book will look like, most of the time I prefer to show just my cover. It takes up less room, for one thing. And the front appears much more dramatic without the rest of it.
But curiosity prompts me to ask people if a flat makes any difference when they peruse a cover. Comments?
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
For the Love of Books - Formats and Fonts
I buy my ebooks in PDF because I can boost the font. Period.I once had a friend comment that it was very hard for her to read the tiny font of one of my books. The 8 pt. font made her eyes water, as well as gave her a headache.
"Why don't you boost the font so it's easier to read?" I suggested.
"You can do that?"
Yes, you can if you're using Adobe (or any 0ther PDF reader, I would imagine.) Another neat trick I learned -- when it's time to scroll down, DON'T use the mouse. Put your cursor on the empty space ABOVE the bottom arrow, in that little "gutter" your scroll bar runs down. Then click once to advance the page down. The last line you finished will automatically become the first line at the top of the next page. :D
Ain't technology wonderful?
Monday, January 5, 2009
Runner's Moon MEGABOOK is Now Available!
If you have been putting off reading my RUNNER'S MOON series, now is your chance to get the first three books -- Jebaral, Tiron, and Simolif -- in one complete e-book edition!
Click here for details!
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
10 Reasons NOT to Buy an E-book
10. I have lots of room to store my print books.
9. I don't care for all the variety. It's too confusing.
8. It'll put used book stores out of business.
7. I paid good money for these reading glasses.
6. What would the authors sign if I went to their book signings?
5. Who wants to sit in front of a computer all day?
4. E-reader? Good grief! MORE technology?
3. I don't need it right now. I can wait for it to come in the mail.
2. What would I do with all my neat little bookmarks?
And the Number One reason NOT to buy an e-book?
1. Bargain? Feh!
9. I don't care for all the variety. It's too confusing.
8. It'll put used book stores out of business.
7. I paid good money for these reading glasses.
6. What would the authors sign if I went to their book signings?
5. Who wants to sit in front of a computer all day?
4. E-reader? Good grief! MORE technology?
3. I don't need it right now. I can wait for it to come in the mail.
2. What would I do with all my neat little bookmarks?
And the Number One reason NOT to buy an e-book?
1. Bargain? Feh!
Monday, November 3, 2008
Coming in the Back Door - My Take on E-Readers
Has anyone else noticed the phenomenon regarding e-readers? I mean, seriously, I'm not talking about the availability or types of e-readers. It's the fact that the READERS are having to comply with with the BOOK FORMATS already out there!
Think about it, folks! This is different!
For those of you who are old coots like me, NONcompatibility issues have been around since MAC programs and formatted disks couldn't be run on PC computers, and vice versa. Remember when VHS and Beta were fighting for the video recording market? A Beta tape wouldn't fit, much less run in a VHS machine. More recently there's been the battle of HiDef DVDs vs BluRay. If you bought one machine, you could use only their kind of product to use with/on that machine.
So why are there ebook formats like Mobi and HTML, you ask? It's due to the fact that ebooks can now be read on Blackberries and Palm Pilots, and the like. Those mini-computers/phones aren't specifically e-readers. They CAN allow you to read ebooks, but initially that's not their primary function.
So the next time you hear about a new kind of e-reader being introduced, take a good look at what it can do, and be happy you can download all your PDFs onto it without any trouble.
Ain't it great? :D
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