Mlp7029 wrote:Hotrod wrote:Prysus wrote:Hotrod wrote:Mlp7029 wrote:Does the release plan include a real ePub for it?
The current plan is to publish it on DriveThruRPG as a PDF. It's up to Kevin whether or not to publish it in other forms. I'd certainly be happy to see it in an E-reader format. I'm not familiar with how to format for Kindle or other ebook readers, but Wayne might be.
Greetings and Salutations. If you'd like to know how to format and/or convert to the more popular formats, I found this link:
https://kimgarst.com/format-ebook-for-publishing/There's links included for formatting guides. While I've never done so myself, looks like you should be able to figure it out from the information provided there. If you need any help, I'd be willing to give it a shot (though I admit I don't have any experience, just a willingness to try and help and figure it out). Hope that helps. Farewell and safe journeys.
P.S. Oh! And congratulations.
Thanks a lot for the link and suggestion! I'll see what I can do to make this happen.
That would be awesome. Since the pdfs are locked we the customers cannot do this. I am very disappointed to date in the pdfs I have purchased because they are just scans without even an index or even OCR dome on them in many cases. I volunteered to do that for Palladium but they did not even respond to my offer.
So I discussed it with Palladium. Unfortunately, since Kevin has an exclusive deal with DriveThruRPG, that will be the only place you will be able to buy a digital copy of the novel. That said, from what I've seen, the more recent PDFs Palladium has produced are proper PDFs, not just scans of books, and I believe Palladium will format Duty's Edge that way as well.
While I would certainly like to see my story distributed on as many book-selling platforms as possible, DriveThruRPG is where Palladium sells all its digital products, and it makes sense for them to keep those products in the same digital place. That encourages customers who are interested in one of their products to consider other Palladium products.
I love reading on my Kindle, and I understand folks who prefer to read their fiction on such devices or books rather than backlit screens. If PDFs are a hard no, then your best bet is to hope that enough people buy the PDF for Kevin to invest in a paperback edition. Alternately, if you can print for cheap/free, you could buy the PDF, print it, and bind it at an office supply store. That's what I did with the physical copy of Duty's Edge that I handed to Kevin.