Re: 14.8 million ipads sold (in 9 months) during 2010
jim said:
style should be primarily up to the publishing house
my view on fonts is that the end-user picks the font. you are the end-user for our little experiment here, so pick your font. i will not be bothered otherwise...
Leave it out and use some extra vertical whitespace
i will not just "leave out" the asterisks, because they signal a scene-break in the original book, which is a very important piece of information that should be retained for anyone who wants to copy out this text. but i can turn them white, so they become invisible, similar to what i did with the rules you wanted deleted.
It means that when I read this on my Kindle or in my web browser it is so small and leaves so little visual impact compared to the surrounding text that it looks like a mistake.
whatever. i will make them invisible, in keeping with your suggestion to use some extra vertical whitespace. the new version is up, albeit with old-style asterisks... tell me if there's anything else, before i change it again. -bowerbird
On Sat, 29 Jan 2011, Bowerbird@aol.com wrote:
jim said:
style should be primarily up to the publishing house
my view on fonts is that the end-user picks the font. you are the end-user for our little experiment here, so pick your font. i will not be bothered otherwise...
The day of the publishing houses telling everyone, readers and authors alike, how everything should look. . .is over. No matter how much THEY try to protect STYLE/"LOOK & FEEL" or whatever, in the end hackers will break down the "Three Little Pigs" houses of straw, wood, and bricks, to free up the books to look and feel the way THE READER WANTS. "The King is dead! Long live the King!" Michael
Leave it out and use some extra vertical whitespace
i will not just "leave out" the asterisks, because they signal a scene-break in the original book, which is a very important piece of information that should be retained for anyone who wants to copy out this text.
but i can turn them white, so they become invisible, similar to what i did with the rules you wanted deleted.
It means that when I read this on my Kindle or in my web browser it is so small and leaves so little visual impact compared to the surrounding text that it looks like a mistake.
whatever. i will make them invisible, in keeping with your suggestion to use some extra vertical whitespace.
the new version is up, albeit with old-style asterisks...
tell me if there's anything else, before i change it again.
-bowerbird
jim said:
style should be primarily up to the publishing house
Michael said:
The day of the publishing houses telling everyone, readers and authors alike, how everything should look. . .is over.
I shrug my shoulders. There are things where PG (as a "publishing house") *does* tell everyone how to do it, and there are other areas where the end user has considerable control over how things appear -- if we are talking about HTML, EPUB, or MOBI the end user has considerable control, but not complete control, other than by rewriting the contents of the file. In the case of PDF the end user has very very little control over how things look. HTML, EPUB, and MOBI end users typically have great control over: Portrait vs. landscape. Fonts Font Size Margins How compressed or expanded char spacing is. How compressed or expanded interline spacing is. The end users do not typically have control over: Paragraph formatting, indent, outdent, interparagraph leading etc. Poetry formatting How compressed images are to make them small for downloading and storage, vs. how large they are to preserve original quality and detail -- other than from PG choosing to download a version without images at all. Spacing around mdashes, curly quotes vs. square, etc. -- other minutae of PG "house rules." Etc.
On Sat, 29 Jan 2011, James Adcock wrote:
jim said:
style should be primarily up to the publishing house
Michael said:
The day of the publishing houses telling everyone, readers and authors alike, how everything should look. . .is over.
I shrug my shoulders. There are things where PG (as a "publishing house") *does* tell everyone how to do it, and there are other areas where the end user has considerable control over how things appear -- if we are talking about HTML, EPUB, or MOBI the end user has considerable control, but not complete control, other than by rewriting the contents of the file. In the case of PDF the end user has very very little control over how things look.
Shrug away all you want, but the more control PG tries to exert on readers the more they slip away to get our files from other sites. . . . Which _I_ don't mind at all, never did, never wanted PG to be a monopoly. mh
HTML, EPUB, and MOBI end users typically have great control over:
Portrait vs. landscape.
Fonts
Font Size
Margins
How compressed or expanded char spacing is.
How compressed or expanded interline spacing is.
The end users do not typically have control over:
Paragraph formatting, indent, outdent, interparagraph leading etc.
Poetry formatting
How compressed images are to make them small for downloading and storage, vs. how large they are to preserve original quality and detail -- other than from PG choosing to download a version without images at all.
Spacing around mdashes, curly quotes vs. square, etc. -- other minutae of PG "house rules."
Etc.
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Am 30.01.2011 um 01:16 schrieb James Adcock:
jim said:
style should be primarily up to the publishing house
Michael said:
The day of the publishing houses telling everyone, readers and authors alike, how everything should look. . .is over.
I shrug my shoulders. There are things where PG (as a "publishing house") *does* tell everyone how to do it, and there are other areas where the end user has considerable control over how things appear -- if we are talking about HTML, EPUB, or MOBI the end user has considerable control, but not complete control, other than by rewriting the contents of the file. In the case of PDF the end user has very very little control over how things look. Since when! It depends on the tools you use!
The same goes for the other formats, below.
HTML, EPUB, and MOBI end users typically have great control over:
Portrait vs. landscape.
Fonts
Font Size
Margins
How compressed or expanded char spacing is.
How compressed or expanded interline spacing is.
The end users do not typically have control over:
Paragraph formatting, indent, outdent, interparagraph leading etc.
Poetry formatting
How compressed images are to make them small for downloading and storage, vs. how large they are to preserve original quality and detail -- other than from PG choosing to download a version without images at all.
Spacing around mdashes, curly quotes vs. square, etc. -- other minutae of PG "house rules."
Etc.
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