Re: Looking for software to create ebook

Hi Mike from Illinois,

You're quite right--doing color in paper books is a cost nightmare.

I think you'll find that many eBook creation programs are designed 
with gray-scale in mind because most dedicated readers (Sony, Kindle, 
eBookwise) support only gray-scale. You might want to consider what 
your target reading device is.

If your target reading device is the computer, what about using HTML? 
HTML supports color and links (for your thousand or so notes).

I am not familiar with the software you mention but there are 
many 'Make Millions in eBooks with our software' programs out there. 
It's possible that your book would be right for them but most eBook 
customers prefer to read using their already-available environments 
rather than having a special application per book (which many of 
these programs create).

Best of luck to you--I certainly agree that your book sounds like one 
more suitable to electronic than paper publication. Then again, I 
believe that virtually all books are better in electronic than paper 
publication.

Rob Preece
Publisher, www.BooksForABuck.com



--- In [email protected], "ankh_mm" <ankh_mm@...> wrote:
>
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> My literary product is non-fiction and geared toward a
> specialized-interest reader/researcher.  So far it comprises some 
600
> pages with over a thousand end notes.  It is unique in that the 
format
> is totally documented by end notes.  The notes will be color-
indexed:
> 
> Black for general material
> 
> Green for primary source material
> 
> Brown for secondary source material
> 
> Red for a specific topic
> 
> Imagine the cost in producing a paper book with the different 
colors! 
> My guess is this and much more is possible with ebooks.
> 
> After spending time examining various POD sites, I've decided to
> consider the ebook format.  Since I'm totally new to ebooks, I
> checked out some ebook programs.  Only one responded to my 
questions--
> ebookstarter.com.  Is anyone familiar with this software?  The
> advertisement states that  it helps create, publish and market ones
> ebook.  There are so many different advertisers of such software 
that it
> becomes bewildering as to which one to try.  Any suggestions would 
be
> most appreciative.
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mike from Illinois
> 
> 
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>



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