[FM Discuss] epub covers & issue dates

[Tuukka Hastrup]

2012-03-07 00:21, James Simmons kirjoitti:
> The nice thing about the CreateSpace walkthroughs is that they tell you
> what they don't like about your submission as you make it.  For example,
> if the interior PDF doesn't have enough gutter, or if an image isn't at
> least 300 DPI, or if it has layers that need flattening.  You can choose
> to ignore the complaints if you wish to.  They let you preview the
> interior pages so you can see *which* images it doesn't like or what the
> right amount of gutter would look like.  They let you design your book
> cover interactively and see a preview of what it will look like.  They
> tell you the minimum price for your book and how much royalty you can
> expect if you sell it on Amazon and how much if directly from CreateSpace.

Sounds great indeed.

> There is no way whatever you come up with for OBJAVI will be as good as
> what CS has.

Never underestimate the ability of the free software community :-)

> It would make more sense to focus on creating a nice EPUB
> with a Table of Contents page and an easy way to get the cover image in
> there.  Let me put in some nice metadata too, so I don't have to load
> the EPUB into Sigil and fix it.

Sounds like reasonable feature requests.

> As I mention in my blog post, CS gives you a free ISBN and distribution
> on Amazon.com, as well as your own Store page which you can customize
> with your own banner, etc.  It just seems like an all-around better deal
> than Lulu.

Lulu.com is not the only service that Objavi integrates with even though 
it's one of the first.

>         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.
>
>
>     Fortunately, Booktype seems to be developing similar walk-throughs
>     as we speak. :-) This should make the combined power of these
>     services more apparent and seamless.
>
>
>
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