Meanwhile, a word about EBooks…

While I wait for the “Writers’ and Artists’ Yearbook 2010″ to arrive, I had a quick play with Ebooks.

All my ‘free-to-air’ stories (the Oolite series) are available for download from this site in PDF format. This is a common format for many different types of computers, but it was brought to my attention that it’s not necessarily the best for some portable devices, particularly the small ones like the Kindle and the iPod / iPhone.

After a bit of research, I found that the ‘epub’ format, an open standard, which is supported by the most popular portable readers, seems to be the best bet.

I’ve therefore made an ‘epub’ version of ‘Status Quo’ available alongside the PDF version. If anyone out there would test it out for me I’d appreciate it – I don’t have a portable reader and I’m proud to say my phone does little other than ..er.. make calls!

Category: Computing
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