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    <pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:10:56 +0000</pubDate>


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        <title>Re: Converting .pdf files to html code</title>
        <link>http://forums.digitaltextplatform.com/dtpforums/thread.jspa?messageID=33183&amp;tstart=0#33183</link>

        

        

            <description><![CDATA[The main thing an index does in a Kindle book is annoy the reader, who is reading blithely along about (according to the progress bar) halfway through the book when it suddenly ends and turns into many, many screens of "index" that would only be useful if you had the paper edition. Even worse, I just read a book that had an index where each "page number" was hyperlinked, but none of them to the actual reference, so I can only guess this was something that happened during conversion when some process turned the page numbers into something the Kindle converter interpreted as a link. 

My own ideal for a Kindle book's index?

INDEX
Click on "Search" and enter your word or phrase.]]></description>

        

        <pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:29:09 +0000</pubDate>

        

        <jf:creationDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:29:09 +0000</jf:creationDate>
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        <jf:date>Sep 1, 2010</jf:date>
        <jf:author>cebpubs</jf:author>
        <jf:replyCount>0</jf:replyCount>
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        <title>Re: When will AmazonDTP officially support Chinese/Japanese/Korean?</title>
        <link>http://forums.digitaltextplatform.com/dtpforums/thread.jspa?messageID=32604&amp;tstart=0#32604</link>

        

        

            <description><![CDATA[And if they do start to allow Asian languages, I'd suspect they'll most likely begin with Vietnamese and other SE Asian languages that are written with Latin characters, followed by Korean, which only requires the ability to reproduce 24 characters for most ordinary writing, as opposed to roughly 2,000 characters (including official Kanji, the two Kana alphabets, and the extra Kanji allowed for personal names) in Japanese, and double or more that number in Chinese. And, as notjohn said, having someone in the approval queue who can read the languages is most likely also a requirement.]]></description>

        

        <pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 23:11:55 +0000</pubDate>

        

        <jf:creationDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 23:11:55 +0000</jf:creationDate>
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        <jf:date>Aug 27, 2010</jf:date>
        <jf:author>cebpubs</jf:author>
        <jf:replyCount>0</jf:replyCount>
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        <title>Re: Why doesn't Amazon publish books on kindle in paperback for more royales</title>
        <link>http://forums.digitaltextplatform.com/dtpforums/thread.jspa?messageID=32527&amp;tstart=0#32527</link>

        

        

            <description><![CDATA[I doubt that paper is going away anytime soon. Print is still the only type of book you can be sure will still be readable 100 years from now or, (if ebook history to date is any indicator), even five years from now. Besides the simplicity of ink on paper, print also offers a degree of redundancy that digital has a hard time matching. If you print 10,000 copies of a book (and best sellers may print several million) you have that many chances of at least one copy surviving. With digital, there may only be a half dozen archive copies around, and who can say when some penny-pinching genius is going to pull a original-series [i]Doctor Who[/i] and erase the tapes (files)?

Digital photography took a long time to overtake film not out of any lack of acceptance, but because it took a number of years for the quality to even start to approach film, and even more before the average person could afford that quality. It hasn't been that long ago that a 5 mp camera would set you back over $1,000. My cell phone has a better camera than a mid-range digital camera in 2004. And I still dig out the 35mm SLR for shooting sports, never having become that adept at guessing the exact moment to press the shutter to catch the right moment a second or two later.  And, of course, with the film job you don't need an 1894 photographer's hood to be able to see the viewfinder in bright sunlight.

And, of course, it doesn't hurt to mention that a very high percentage of digital photos end up being printed, a stack of pictures still being a lot more convenient to pass around.]]></description>

        

        <pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 21:04:24 +0000</pubDate>

        

        <jf:creationDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 21:03:30 +0000</jf:creationDate>
        <jf:modificationDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 21:04:24 +0000</jf:modificationDate>
        <jf:date>Aug 26, 2010</jf:date>
        <jf:author>cebpubs</jf:author>
        <jf:replyCount>1</jf:replyCount>
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        <title>Re: Does opting for DRM cost anything in terms of cash or royalty rate?</title>
        <link>http://forums.digitaltextplatform.com/dtpforums/thread.jspa?messageID=32218&amp;tstart=0#32218</link>

        

        

            <description><![CDATA[DRM is just like putting a padlock on the barn door. It keeps out the honest people (who probably wouldn't try to get in anyway), but isn't going to stop a determined criminal. It may, however, stop a [i]less[/i] determined criminal, or, at least, make him decide to go rob someone else.

And this, by the way, is what "I'd like to make a copy to let my brother read this" really means. You're not the publisher, so you're not allowed to make copies. Period. Ever. You can loan a physical book, since you're not republishing the thing (unless it's a mass market paperback with the front cover missing, in which case it's almost certainly stolen, and you shouldn't have it to begin with), but only the publisher can make copies.

But, no, adding DRM imposes no cost whatsover on the author or publisher. It does, however, impose at least a minor cost of time and inconvenience on the thief.]]></description>

        

        <pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 21:36:28 +0000</pubDate>

        

        <jf:creationDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 21:36:28 +0000</jf:creationDate>
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        <jf:date>Aug 23, 2010</jf:date>
        <jf:author>cebpubs</jf:author>
        <jf:replyCount>0</jf:replyCount>
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        <title>Re: Confused about royalties...</title>
        <link>http://forums.digitaltextplatform.com/dtpforums/thread.jspa?messageID=32044&amp;tstart=0#32044</link>

        

        

            <description><![CDATA[Yes, non-U.S. residents can purchase from Amazon.com. Amazon.co.uk is just the first of the "foreign" Amazons to set up its own Kindle store. It would be those foreign purchases from the American site that are getting the 35% royalty.]]></description>

        

        <pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 20:24:42 +0000</pubDate>

        

        <jf:creationDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 20:24:42 +0000</jf:creationDate>
        <jf:modificationDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 20:24:42 +0000</jf:modificationDate>
        <jf:date>Aug 22, 2010</jf:date>
        <jf:author>cebpubs</jf:author>
        <jf:replyCount>0</jf:replyCount>
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        <title>Re: info re: creating a cover</title>
        <link>http://forums.digitaltextplatform.com/dtpforums/thread.jspa?messageID=32041&amp;tstart=0#32041</link>

        

        

            <description><![CDATA[A quick summary.

There are public domain images that can be used for covers, but it is up to the user to, 1) determine that the image [i]is[/i] public domain, and, 2) be able to prove it should this be questioned.

Photographs of paintings are subject to copyright, even if the painting itself is several hundred years old. To use the photograph you would need to obtain clearance from the copyright holder (most likely the museum that owns the painting). 

Images fall under the same copyright category as written works. That is, if it was copyrighted and published before 1923, it is in the public domain in the United States. If it was copyrighted and published between 1923 and 1963, it would have intially been protected for 28 years, and, if the copyright was renewed, would have been protected for an additional 28 (extended to 48 years in 1976 and 67 years in 1998), for a total, under the present law, of 95 years. 

Feist has no application to book covers, beyond asserting that the "sweat of brow" copyright not only does not exist, but never did, despite some incorrect rulings by lower courts. The essence of Feist is that no copyright can exist in a list of names and phone numbers published in alphabetical order in a phone book, and that phone book copyrights are limited to [i]original[/i] content, but not the actual white pages listings (Yellow pages are a different matter, as they consist mostly of advertising, which [i]is[/i] original). 

Taking a copyrighted image and adding text over it does not constitute a copyrightable change, nor would any court consider it covered by "fair use," as the image constitutes the entire work. In essence, doing this would be no different than trying to publish a book consisting of a five page essay on Michener and an index, then putting [i]Centennial[/i] in between them and arguing that this was fair use of the "quoted" material. This is the same reason that using even a single line from a poem or song lyric requires clearance; the shorter the work, the smaller the portion of it that can be quoted as fair use, and some works are so short that fair use simply doesn't exist.

Cropping an image so that less than 75% of the original remains might pass muster in Holland (though it's also possible that loophole has been closed by now), but not in the United States.

And, a minor point, now that Kindle has gone international: if you're publishing a Kindle version of the King James Bible, don't check world rights. It remains under copyright in the UK, and it's the [i]government[/i] that holds the copyright, so you would lose if they called you on it.]]></description>

        

        <pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 20:15:51 +0000</pubDate>

        

        <jf:creationDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 20:15:51 +0000</jf:creationDate>
        <jf:modificationDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 20:15:51 +0000</jf:modificationDate>
        <jf:date>Aug 22, 2010</jf:date>
        <jf:author>cebpubs</jf:author>
        <jf:replyCount>1</jf:replyCount>
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        <title>Re: Image Background</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Or you could just save the image as a merged image, in which case there is no practical way to separate the layers because the background is gone wherever another layer was applied over it.

A lot of my covers have a one or two pixel black border, as a number of them have a white background which would otherwise blend into the page (your first link, to the Stephen King book, is a good example of what happens [i]without[/i] the border). Even where the background is colored, the border doesn't hurt, as it seems to make the image stand out a bit better.]]></description>

        

        <pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2010 01:35:37 +0000</pubDate>

        

        <jf:creationDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2010 01:35:37 +0000</jf:creationDate>
        <jf:modificationDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2010 01:35:37 +0000</jf:modificationDate>
        <jf:date>Aug 20, 2010</jf:date>
        <jf:author>cebpubs</jf:author>
        <jf:replyCount>1</jf:replyCount>
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        <title>Re: Aspect ration for cover image - &amp;#38; for cover image WITHIN the book</title>
        <link>http://forums.digitaltextplatform.com/dtpforums/thread.jspa?messageID=31898&amp;tstart=0#31898</link>

        

        

            <description><![CDATA[Personally, I usually go with 1350x900 (the equivalent of a standard 9x6 inch printed cover at 150 dpi). If Amazon adds some white at the sides, I don't think it matters, as you can't actually tell it's there other than by the fact that the selector cursor stays on a bit to each side. My main objection to a square cover, though, is that it doesn't look like a book (unless you're doing a children's picture book, that is), and people tend to react most favorably to the familiar. For books, that's a rectangular cover. That the cover image will look square (and distorted) when added to DTP is irrelevant, of course, because that's a glitch in DTP and the image will look normal on the actual product page.]]></description>

        

        <pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2010 01:24:19 +0000</pubDate>

        

        <jf:creationDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2010 01:24:19 +0000</jf:creationDate>
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        <jf:date>Aug 20, 2010</jf:date>
        <jf:author>cebpubs</jf:author>
        <jf:replyCount>4</jf:replyCount>
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        <title>Re: Page Breaks ???</title>
        <link>http://forums.digitaltextplatform.com/dtpforums/thread.jspa?messageID=31870&amp;tstart=0#31870</link>

        

        

            <description><![CDATA[Don't forget that on the Kindle (or a Kindle app) the result will be something that [i]looks[/i] just like a printed page, and "turns"  by replacing the current "page" with the next "page." There's no scrolling, though if created in html that will be the impression if using a web browser to preview the file.

For browser previews, I'd suggest pulling the two sides in fairly close, limiting the width of the line to something that seems "book-like" when viewed. You're less likely to get lost, or miss something, which is far too easy to do with a full-screen-width browser window. Depending upon how patient you are, I'd also recommend the old editor's trick of reading the entire book backwards. While it sounds odd, going backwards removes context and makes spelling errors jump out much more clearly. (Though this will not, obviously, be any more useful than a computer's spell checker if you don't know the difference between to, two, and too, or their, there, and they're.)]]></description>

        

        <pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 22:26:20 +0000</pubDate>

        

        <jf:creationDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 22:26:20 +0000</jf:creationDate>
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        <jf:date>Aug 20, 2010</jf:date>
        <jf:author>cebpubs</jf:author>
        <jf:replyCount>0</jf:replyCount>
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        <title>Re: Anybody know any good kindle forums...where kindle authors discuss boots et</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[U-boots?]]></description>

        

        <pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 22:15:04 +0000</pubDate>

        

        <jf:creationDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 22:15:04 +0000</jf:creationDate>
        <jf:modificationDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 22:15:04 +0000</jf:modificationDate>
        <jf:date>Aug 20, 2010</jf:date>
        <jf:author>cebpubs</jf:author>
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