Al, This sounds reasonable. I'm not asking for a retroactive posting; I just regret that I didn't know what was possible when I made my submissions. Two out of three of my cover images would have passed your guidelines because they make use of illustrations from the books. The Vidyapati cover is questionable because while the illustration is an Indian miniature that is in the public domain I got it from a Google image search, not from photographing the actual painting. I would prefer a book's original cover too, but for pre-1923 books they can be hard to come by. For PG Canada that won't always be possible. For example, Robert C. Benchley died over 50 years ago, but his illustrator Gluyas Williams did not. I don't know what the original cover of The Big Sleep looked like but I'm sure it would be risky to use it. Original covers might be the only safe way to go for PG Canada. James Simmons On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Al Haines <ajhaines@shaw.ca> wrote:
Custom epub covers were discussed among the WWers and Greg Newby several weeks ago. (The question was raised by DP-Canada.)
With Greg to confirm/deny/clarify as needed, the general guidelines decided on were:
- the book's original cover is preferred, even if has only the title and author. (Obviously, not all covers have any graphical content, with some having a completely blank cover. I've even seen one with a full-cover illustration, with no title or author on it, those being only on the spine.)
- they must be a reasonable size--50K-150K, 300dpi is plenty, most likely in jpg or png format. A 1M, 600dpi image, for example, if not rejected outright, will probably elicit a request for something reasonable, which if not forthcoming, the original would probably be reduced considerably by the WWers (and perhaps not used at all).
- a custom cover should be provided only when a submission is first uploaded. They will not, repeat, NOT, be applied retroactively, i.e. to already-posted submissions. The WWers haven't time for a bunch of vanity reposts.
- there must be a mention in the Notes to WWers field, and in a Transcriber's Note in the HTML file, that the image was produced by the submitter, and is being placed into the public domain. Obviously, PG wants no hassle because a submitter helped themselves, from some other website, to something *not* in the public domain.
Al
-----Original Message----- From: gutvol-d-bounces@lists.pglaf.org [mailto:gutvol-d-bounces@lists.pglaf.org] On Behalf Of James Simmons Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 10:10 AM To: Project Gutenberg Volunteer Discussion Subject: Re: [gutvol-d] Producing epub ready HTML
Strangely enough, I made some nice cover images for my three PG submissions so I could put somewhat better formatted versions in the Kindle Store. I would have been happy to include these with my PG submissions if I had known it was possible!
https://plus.google.com/photos/114689250113657220289/albums/5681329822 764797041?authkey=COCMmsfqwNDOqgE
https://plus.google.com/photos/114689250113657220289/albums/5676125941 560802081?authkey=CPDP0daf1ee9aw
http://www.amazon.com/Ancient-Manners-Illustrated-ebook/dp/B0055OMGN0/ ref=sr_1_6?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1326996235&sr=1-6
It would be good if this was better known. Maybe the White Washers could ask if someone wanted to include a cover image with his submission. They are not hard to make. A few minutes with The GIMP is all it takes.
James Simmons
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Jim Adcock <jimad@msn.com> wrote:
Jana>There are several ways of specifying a cover in your HTML version that
epubmaker will use for the epub (and Kindle?) version(s) of your book. See Marcello's advice here: http://www.pgdp.net/wiki/The_Proofreader%27s_Guide_to_EPUB#Cover_Page
OK thanks -- it didn't occur to me to look in DP for advice on how to target a PG tool.
Hopefully people who are providing an alt image for the "Blue PDA" realize that this image needs to include Title and Author. Which it will if people say just provide a jpg of the title page. But if they use the "first pretty picture" in the book, such as a frontal plate, then they need to use some kind of picture editing software to place title and author over that image.
Thanks again.
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