Liza says that thinking about reading engines can really simplify
issues around eBook design.
Not exact matches
Which you should be doing of course, and if you have some brilliant strategies for turning your book into a STORY by connecting it with some current events or burning media
issue, and if you have some events planned
around the launch, then you should probably have both the
ebook and print version ready (getting the files right takes a LOT longer than you think, always give yourself a few months of extra space before you launch).
You can't do anything fancy like make text flow
around images, but in text - heavy
ebooks this isn't considered an
issue.
Updating an
ebook cover to a print cover (adding a spine and back cover) is usually
around $ 75, so if we did our own formatting, the cover would be the main expense (other than ordering and shipping of a proof copy to double check — definitely use the online proofing tools at CreateSpace to eliminate
issues before the physical proof expense).
LaGuire seems to have come away from our conversation concerned that a good examination of the
issues around enhanced
ebooks requires a firm determination of whose problems you're interested in addressing with innovation.
Authors, at least as represented
around our coverage this week of the
issue, are saying they don't need ISBNs and don't mind if they're not counted in efforts to quantify publishing in genera and its
ebooks in particular.
The
issue of Digital Rights Management (DRM) has been
around for as long as
ebooks have been
around — and not only
ebooks, but digital content in general, including online journals, movies, TV shows, games, and software.