[FM Discuss] epub covers & issue dates

[adam at flossmanuals.net]

> 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 :-)
>



Hehe....how about better than what cs has? We will be better soon enough

:)

Adam


>> It would make more sense to focus on creating a nice EPUB
>> withhehe 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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