[FM Discuss] epub covers & issue dates

[James Simmons]

Tuukka,

URL for cover image isn't exactly friendly.  It would be better to have a
drop-down list of images in the selected book to choose from.  Or one of
those upload fields with a Browse button.

The Lulu fields seem dubious to me too.  I've never published to Lulu, but
I have done to CreateSpace and I like that CS walks you through the process
of publishing your book, instead of asking for every possible piece of info
up front before you really know what you're doing.  I assume that Lulu does
much the same thing, and I cannot imagine why you would not want to do it
that way.  I have four books on CS and I'll do the walk-you-through on the
fifth if there is one.

James Simmons


On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Tuukka Hastrup <Tuukka.Hastrup at iki.fi>wrote:

>
> Hey guys,
>
> Since a while ago, Objavi can include a cover image in the generated epub
> if you fill in the "URL for cover image" form field at
> http://objavi.booki.cc.
>
>
> Regards,
> Tuukka
>
> 2012-03-06 18:40, James Simmons kirjoitti:
>
>> You can easily add a cover image to your generated epub by editing it
>> with Sigil.  That is what I do with all my epubs.  You can upload the
>> cover image into Booki but don't use it on any page in the book.  The
>> image will be included in the generated epub.  Edit that epub with
>> Sigil, mark the cover image to indicate that it is the cover image, add
>> needed metadata and save.
>>
>> Booki should have a way to specify a cover image for epubs, but until it
>> does this is a very simple workaround.
>>
>> James Simmons
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 7:41 PM, Ian Williams <ian-w at operamail.com
>> <mailto:ian-w at operamail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>    Noticed that epubs unlike pdfs do not have title cover or the issue
>> date
>>    usually on the pdf first page.  Nor do they state distribution license.
>>    On Sony Reader a cover looks better than displaying the first page.
>>    --
>>      Ian Williams
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