On Feb 8, 2009, at 7:42 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote:
Horace Heffner wrote:
It might be worthwhile to produce a Stanza readable format too,
although a Mobipocket reading version of Stanza (a free iPhone app
with 1,000,000 distribution currently) . . .
If you and Stephen Lawrence would advise me on how to go about
doing that, I will. I doubt that the formatting will be a
challenge, now that I have the book in Kindle's HTML.
AFAIK "Mobipocket" is Kindle's format.
I do not which of these formats you two describe is which, having
no experience with these electronic gadgets.
If you would contact me via private e-mail with the page to upload
the file, the formatting information and so on, I would appreciate
it. After I upload the book, you should download a copy and let me
know if there are any formatting problems.
Well, after a brief exposure to Stanza Desktop on the Mac I have to
say my recommendation of it was way premature. I downloaded the Mac
version and found it left a lot to be desired - like the fact it can
format documents but it deletes tables and graphics.
I visited a major source of Stanza book downloads (eBook download
servers are called bookshelves):
http://stanza.fictionwise.com/
and found nothing about how to upload. Then at the main Fictionwise
site:
http://www.fictionwise.com/
I found:
http://www.fictionwise.com/authorinfo.htm
which is an author unfriendly policy.
Info on Stanza is at:
http://www.lexcycle.com/stanza
Maybe you will have a better experience if you try the PC version of
it, but I doubt it. I expect there might be a hold-up on improved
software due to the wait for Amazon approval of a Mobipocket
version. I hear the iPod and iPhone versions are good but I don't
own one of those.
Best regards,
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
