{"id":184007,"date":"2009-03-26T11:57:37","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T11:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.rm.gfolkdev.net\/?p=184007"},"modified":"2022-10-03T14:08:27","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T14:08:27","slug":"our-ebook-strategy-feedback-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/our-ebook-strategy-feedback-please\/","title":{"rendered":"Our ebook strategy:  feedback, please!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been muddling over how exactly to support the burgeoning demand for ebooks.  As a publisher, it&#8217;s a hugely confusing mix of readers (like Stanza), devices (like Kindle, Sony Reader, and the iPhone) and formats (like PDF and Epub).  Our ebook strategy is a work in progress: we&#8217;d love your input on our current plan:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"list-ul\">\n<li><strong>So far:<\/strong>  we&#8217;ve been providing our books as DRM-free PDFs that have been optimized for on-screen use (yes, we&#8217;ve actually tested the design with real-live users).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Definite plan:<\/strong>  We&#8217;ll soon start providing another variety of PDF (also DRM-free).  It&#8217;s a printer-optimized version (toner-hungry elements deleted) that we hope will satisfy those who want to make their laser printers earn their keep.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Does this make sense?<\/strong>  Three ideas:\n<ul class=\"list-ul\"\/>\n<ol class=\"list-ol\">\n<li><em>Embed high-resolution images in our screen-optimized PDFs.<\/em>  We&#8217;re trying this now and it actually works pretty well when you use Acrobat Reader. The resolution is better than what you&#8217;d get from our Flickr feed, and you don&#8217;t have to go online.<\/li>\n<li><em>Support Epub,<\/em> which works on the iPhone and Sony Reader. It looks like Epub files can be generated from InDesign, which is what we use to lay out our books.  <\/li>\n<li><em>Wait on the Kindle:<\/em> it doesn&#8217;t seem good at support books with lots of images and lots of color. Yet.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Does this sound like a reasonable plan for a small publisher to take in Q1 2009?  You&#8217;re the customer; please let us know!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been muddling over how exactly to support the burgeoning demand for ebooks. As a publisher, it&#8217;s a hugely confusing mix of readers (like Stanza), devices (like Kindle, Sony Reader, and the iPhone) and formats (like PDF and Epub). Our ebook strategy is a work in progress: we&#8217;d love your input on our current plan: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/our-ebook-strategy-feedback-please\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184007"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184007"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186391,"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184007\/revisions\/186391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}