5. Success Story
Source: http://goo.gl/4oGHd
Self publishing author Colleen
Hoover with copies of her
books. Hoover's novels have
made the New York Times
bestseller list!
www.colleenhoover.com
6. Fill these three roles
and the potential
benefits are greater
than with traditional
publishing!
8. E-formats
• We have an alphabet soup of formats:
– AZW, PDF, EPUB, MOBI, TXT, DJVU, LIT, etc.
• For a thorough explanation/comparison, see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_e-book_formats
• The big ones (right now) are EPUB, PDF and AZW/KF8 (Kindle).
• “Everyone” else uses EPUB and PDF.
Official ePub logo,
International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF)
9. Dueling Formats
The cassette/CD format difference is easy for
people to see and understand. But .EPUB vs
.AZW/KF8… ? Not so easy.
14. “You might be tempted to look for some
way to remove DRM from e-books in
order to facilitate conversion. A word of
warning about doing this: In the USA
there is a law known as the Digital
Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). This
law makes it illegal to circumvent a copy
protection system (DRM is such a copy
protection system). It also makes it illegal
to produce tools, distribute tools, and aid
in circumvention. Not everyone lives in
the USA, but many countries have similar
laws. Check your local laws and realize
that even though you may only want to
read an EPUB book that you’ve legally
purchased on your Kindle, it may not be
legal to do so. If you don’t like this
silliness—and I don’t—then speak up to
whoever in your country makes the
relevant laws.”
15. So, what’s this DRM thing?
• Digital Rights Management.
• A software “lock” that controls access to a file
(e-book, e-music, e-movie). You must have the
correct software “key” to unlock it.
18. • Like speed limits and banking regulations,
DRM schemes can be a good thing and can
protect an author’s livelihood.
• Like speed traps and unreasonable lending
practices, DRM schemes can infuriate and
frustrate our readers.
19. Same Format, Dueling DRMs
EPUB w/ Adobe’s ADEPT DRM EPUB w/ Apple’s FairPlay DRM
25. Upload local content to
“Community Reserve.”
createspace.com
kdp.amazon.com
calibre-ebook.com
vook.com/
mobipocket.com
26. What is calibre?
calibre is a “free and open source e-book
library management application developed
by users of e-books for users of e-books.”
http://calibre-ebook.com/
27. What can calibre do?
• Find an e-book and transfer it to a device.
• Manages your e-book collection.
• Convert a DRM-free e-book to another format.
• Over-the-air (OTA) e-book transfer to a Kindle Fire and others.
• Syncs to a variety of e-readers.
• Downloads RSS feeds & converts to an e-book.
• Comprehensive e-book viewer.
• Content server for online access to your collection.
Harder to see why Amazon e-book won’t ‘fit’ into Nook. Or, more likely, vice versa.Even if you saw the two side by side as files on a PC, most of our users won’t say, “Whoa! That’s an AZW file extension! No wonder it won’t work on a device configured for an EPUB file!”
Both of these read EPUB format, but Sony uses the Adobe DRM and the iPad uses the Fair Play DRM
