Hi Doug, I guess you never bought the ebook for Casais das Flores e do Corvo ( http://www.amazon.com/Casais-Flores-Corvo-Portuguese-Edition-ebook/dp/B00AQAOOF6). It's now a kindle ebook.. It's not impossible to crack, but your target audience for the book is usually not tech-savvy enough to make a dent in your sales. Quite by the contrary, they'll probably prefer the print book. That's why I suggested a print-on-demand service. But if you're still 10+ years away, I guess the question is moot. By then all books will be digital, with a small deluxe edition being in dead-tree-format.
Truth be told, the author did choose to use a service ( http://www.xinxii.com/en/casais-das-flores-do-corvo-p-339506.html?currency=USD) that also provides a DRM-free PDF (I bought that one). That way, I'm not yet forced to keep a kindle around to read that book. Regards, João Ventura http://tombo.pt On Friday, December 20, 2013 4:42:03 PM UTC+1, Doug da Rocha Holmes wrote: > > Hi Joao, > > Yea, I am sure that it must be in two formats. I like books printed, but > that surely adds up and is more costly. > There are too many books I have in storage, because we simply don't have > room in the house and my ready to grab books on the shelf are limited to > four linear feet set aside by my wife (grudgingly...). So I can imagine an > eBook being more practical in many ways. > > So far, my only experience in digital books is from a couple of chapters > saved as PDF files from the Terceira volumes that they never sent me, > thanks to someone in Brasil. I like the copy/paste feature for making > notes. And I suppose it has the search feature, but didn't try it. > > What I hate to imagine is selling fewer because they are so easily shared > in digital form. > > There are probably some strategies to overcome that. Maybe using the hard > bound vs soft bound release model, where the hard bound is first. > > But all this can change before I am ready to publish. I don't think I > would start sooner than maybe 20 years from now. I would be about 75 by > then (54 now). Then I would hope over the following decade to complete this > lifetime goal of mine. > > In the meantime, I continue to offer my services as a professional > genealogist. > > Doug da Rocha Holmes > Sacramento, California > Pico & Terceira Genealogist > 916-550-1618 > www.dholmes.com > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Putting our research on Ancestry > From: João_Ventura <[email protected] <javascript:>> > Date: Fri, December 20, 2013 1:30 am > To: [email protected] <javascript:> > > Doug, > > Please make sure that you create an ebook variant of those books.. The > 'Casais das Flores e Corvo' is so much more useful in ebook format, that I > actually stopped using the paper version. There are print-on-demand > publishers that will list your book in Amazon, iTunes and Google Play store > as an ebook, and also print and post a paper book to those who feel better > with a dead tree in their hands. > > I draw a line between reference books (technical or genealogy trees) and > story books (fiction, science or biography). The former are way better when > I can Ctrl+F and search what I need. The latter usually deserve the tree > sacrifice. > > João C. Ventura > http://tombo.pt > > On Friday, December 20, 2013 1:14:31 AM UTC+1, Doug da Rocha Holmes wrote: >> >> Thanks for your thoughts on this, Joao. >> >> It will be something I must deal with in the future as I plan to start >> publishing. >> I was just thinking how massive a task it would be to get in writing the >> permission for each and every living person to be included. There are many >> people who write me to make sure their families are included in my future >> Pico and Terceira books. >> >> Doug da Rocha Holmes >> Sacramento, California >> Pico & Terceira Genealogist >> 916-550-1618 >> www.dholmes.com >> >> >> -------- Original Message -------- >> Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Putting our research on Ancestry >> From: João_Ventura <[email protected]> >> Date: Thu, December 19, 2013 4:30 pm >> To: [email protected] >> >> Hi Doug, >> >> Oh yes, the 10-book Genealogias da Ilha Terceira. I don't have that book, >> as my wife's ancestors don't come from Terceira. I do have the 4-book >> Genealogias das Quatro Ilhas where indeed a lot of living people are >> listed. Some were still being breast fed when it was published. >> >> I do think that the science clause,applies, but it's slightly different. >> In Portugal (and in the rest of the world), they're still struggling on the >> difference between paper and digital. The former is free speech, and you >> can't censor that without good reason. The tables turn in the case of data >> and databases. On the data front, there's this privacy comission I >> mentioned (CNPD) that regulates the distribution of any private data. In >> the end it's all the same, but the line can easily grow thin in the case of >> ebooks (which is what the 10vol GdIT and 4vol Gd4I should have been, >> instead of being so massive and expensive). >> >> As an aside, I do firmly believe that these books have heavy >> contributions by people, which simply contribute their whole GEDCOM without >> realizing their young cousins will make it onto a printed book. >> Unfortunately, it also leads to some simple errors which shouldn't be >> committed by genealogists of such renown. I've got a case of a woman >> (ancestor to my wife and my kids) being a mother at 76yrs back in the 1700s. >> >> João C. 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