But a new concept has emerged, which is that of the boxed set or anthology
collections of ebook files.
Not exact matches
Essentially, the entire EPUB format is a
collection of XHTML and XML
files (plus images) that defines the content, reading order, and metadata
of an
eBook.
Project Gutenberg PrePrints was launched in January 2006 to collect items submitted to Project Gutenberg which were interesting enough to be available online, but not ready yet to be added to the main Project Gutenberg
collection, because
of missing data, low - quality
files, formats which were not handy, etc. 379
ebooks were available in December 2006, and 2,020
ebooks in February 2009.
This won't matter too much for those who have their own
ebook collections,
of course, plug the Kobo Glo into a computer using the microUSB port on the bottom edge and you can easily drag and drop
files onto the internal memory.
Convenient
collections of thousands
of acclaimed
eBooks in a range
of core subjects — from the award - winning Facts On
File, Chelsea House, Ferguson's, and Bloom's imprints — at a fraction
of the cost
of purchase.
Your
ebook collection can consist
of various types
of ebook files, and you can manage all
of your
ebooks in one place.
A self - published author can make a boxed set
of three books, ten books, or even ninety - nine
eBooks, so long as the
file size
of the final
collection falls within each vendor's limits (more on that later).
You set the price, you can offer all your books at half price once a year, or you can put all the
ebook files in one giant
collection yourself and sell the «Works
of Hugh Howey», you don't need Amazon to do it for you.
He has written or co-authored six books that have been published by established companies and just issued his first self - published
ebook, a
collection of two years
of his blog posts called «The Shatzkin
Files, Volume 1.»
What we're going to look this time is the structure
of the
ebook — the
collection of files that an ePub - ready ereader like Apple's iBooks or Barnes & Noble's Nook or Readium or Calibre or any
of thousands
of other apps can open.
The uploaded
file should not be a partial sample, a sample chapter, or a
collection of sample chapters, and all content submitted to
eBook Architects must be in its final form.
Calibre popular application for
file conversion (epub «'' mobi) and management
of ebook collections