eBooks @iBookstore (Updated)
Here are some updated iBookstore links (currently available or soon to be):
Legends of Ghost Island, Book One
Creative Quotations, Stillness in the Midst of Chaos
25 Secrets of the Muse: A Book of Creative Strategies
These links will have a permanent home in the sidebar.
It was a sometimes frustrating process as there is no direct route to creating an epub — the format used by many eBook vendors — in a form that can be validated and formatted satisfactorily. The epub format is really HTML1 — the most basic web, going back years; it is then wrapped in a compressed zip format. I started by using Adobe CS5 Indesign, part of a recently released suite. Although this application was 19 months in development it could not produce an epub that could be validated. Extraordinary.
Well, it was worth it as the final results look beautiful. The books have also been edited, so they are at present, the most current revision. I should note that the books currently on display at the iBookstore were the first version. Apple has yet to display the current revision, which I assume will be available to all who purchase the currently displayed eBooks when parsed in the next few weeks by Apple.
The other issue, which the iBookstore wrote me that they will be improving: some of the ebooks are not sampled so you can get a full idea of the contents. This, as I say, will soon be remedied as well.
