He just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwich

[rolanni]

Proof ordered.

To the folks who asked if I had thought about CreateSpace/Lightning Source, the answer is — yes.  But, Amazon is slowing down delivery of Lightning Source books (discussion here), because, um, they can.  And CreateSpace is owned by Amazon and I’d really rather not put all of my eggs in Amazon’s basket (plus, I want to list on BN, too).  So, Lulu looked like a good compromise position.  I note and will look at Booklocker — thank roseaponi for the link — but not this evening.

In other news, the Cat Eating Machine (aka the vacuum cleaner) and I have concluded our bidness.  I note that Scrabble headed for the high ground, as is her habit, but Mozart — Mozart has apparently read Hex’s paper, published in the Journal of Proper Feline Behavior, in which he argues that a Supreme Disregard for the antics of the Cat Eating Machine ultimately nets more points of Cool, and has taken up this new philosophy.  He remained in his cat hammock — asleep — even though I vacuumed right under him.

Pretty dern Cool, I say.

Tomorrow, I have an appointment in town with a person who I hope can (and will) answer my Very Simple Question, then to the gym, and home again.

Who’s got something exciting planned for Monday?

Progress on the Book Presently known as George
53,427 of 100,000 OR 53% complete

“That,” he said in a fierce whisper, “is mine.”

 

Originally published at Sharon Lee, Writer. You can comment here or there.

Comments

Re: Self Publish?

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

Nope. If I didn't unpack it enough for you to understand, I'm not doing well.

Let's see. First, think of the formats as like fonts -- there's a whole bunch of ways that people store things. A couple of popular ones are ePub and RTF. Lots of readers can handle these. Kind of like a generic format. These are good, because they are likely to be available in the future.

DRM -- Digital Rights Management -- is what several publishers have tried to use to not allow you to copy files. However, if they use this, it usually won't let you move to another system (BAD!). Baen and many small presses have said "No way" so you can move their files easily to another system. This is good. Again, it doesn't tie you to a specific reader. So you want non-DRM ebooks (we need a positive name for that, but I don't know of one. Unchained files?)

Last, but not least -- let's say you're interested in the Kindle reader. If you go to Amazon, they have a program called "Kindle for PC" (I think), which is a program that runs on your PC but acts like a Kindle reader. You can download it (copy it to your system) and try it out, using some of the free ebooks. So you can see what the Kindle is like without buying one!

Is that a little clearer?

Re: Self Publish?

[claire774.livejournal.com]

Thanks M for spelling out more info.
My friend is very happy with her Kindle so I think I'll get one of those.
C.