Perhaps I was not clear enough that it doesn't interest me to make the "Rock City" book a fantasy so I should also be clear that visualizing an 1849 Gold Rush from selling it is about as realistic as anticipating another Nobel Peace Prize for an American President.
The book will go the iBookstore and five bucks seems a peach of a number for selling since it seems to be at least that much before anyone even thinks the money is even real.
Note to Euros: Americans hardly ever touch cash money as almost everything is done with debit or credit cards. They know they can't trust banks but they do it anyway (shrug).
There's no intention to put the book on Amazon just as I did not with previous books. The formatting for the book is specific to iBooks and reformatting it to remove the iBooks goodies is essentially like writing it once and unwriting it for another release. No thanks.
The basic EPUB format for eBooks is simple and affords few of the niceties of an actual book beyond the text of it. The EPUB format is the one supported by Amazon. Apple ignored that informal standard in classic Microsoftian manner but that's ok with me since it's a richer format which allows for much greater flexibility.
For example, I can easily embed one of my own videos into an iBook but, puzzlingly, it's difficult without the use of some of Apple's Developer code (i.e. Dashcode) to embed a YouTube video. I don't have an Apple Developer account so no Dashcode for me. However, "Rock City" links to some YouTube videos and a standard ebook can't even do that.
In case you're interested, "Lunagrams" is a book of my poetry and "Abandoning Paradise" is my book about riding a motor scooter from Greece to Scotland. I started out in Paradise but I sure as hell didn't end up in one. Where there was light and love on one end, there was heroin and depravity on the other.
Note: "Abandoning Paradise" is not a revisitation of "Trainspotting" as the heroin and depravity aspect is a tiny part of the story but, regrettably, it made one hell of a mess of things at the end. Much more important were some major musical highlights in France and also in England. I'm not sure even now that people ever got it just how bad things were in Edinburgh. That was a bad end but the ride was a completely insane gas.
Both are available in Apple's iBookstore and will only work with iBooks software. That also means it will only tablet which will work with it is an iPad. Google keeps prattling about the androgynous capabilities of Android but we don't care since it can't deliver an iBook.
(Ed: why 'androgynous?')
One size fits all.
The reason for writing the book goes mostly back to Cadillac Man when he said the Ithaka articles about the Rock City were complicated. That triggered the thought, well, that needs to get uncomplicated, doesn't it. Presto, the book started rolling.
Take a bow, CM (larfs).
Don't read that as negative as I suspected the problem anyway so CM helped me by putting it into words. All of it makes perfect sense to me but that doesn't tell me whether it makes sense to anyone else. The book makes the story contiguous and easier to follow although there was a bit of a thought to it being cool as a serial since Mark Twain did ok with serials, highly OK, in fact.
"Rock City" isn't something with a serial nature since we can unravel a story and keep you hooked into what happens next through the entire time but a subterranean construction project is not likely to have the same joie de vivre.
The book will go the iBookstore and five bucks seems a peach of a number for selling since it seems to be at least that much before anyone even thinks the money is even real.
Note to Euros: Americans hardly ever touch cash money as almost everything is done with debit or credit cards. They know they can't trust banks but they do it anyway (shrug).
There's no intention to put the book on Amazon just as I did not with previous books. The formatting for the book is specific to iBooks and reformatting it to remove the iBooks goodies is essentially like writing it once and unwriting it for another release. No thanks.
The basic EPUB format for eBooks is simple and affords few of the niceties of an actual book beyond the text of it. The EPUB format is the one supported by Amazon. Apple ignored that informal standard in classic Microsoftian manner but that's ok with me since it's a richer format which allows for much greater flexibility.
For example, I can easily embed one of my own videos into an iBook but, puzzlingly, it's difficult without the use of some of Apple's Developer code (i.e. Dashcode) to embed a YouTube video. I don't have an Apple Developer account so no Dashcode for me. However, "Rock City" links to some YouTube videos and a standard ebook can't even do that.
In case you're interested, "Lunagrams" is a book of my poetry and "Abandoning Paradise" is my book about riding a motor scooter from Greece to Scotland. I started out in Paradise but I sure as hell didn't end up in one. Where there was light and love on one end, there was heroin and depravity on the other.
Note: "Abandoning Paradise" is not a revisitation of "Trainspotting" as the heroin and depravity aspect is a tiny part of the story but, regrettably, it made one hell of a mess of things at the end. Much more important were some major musical highlights in France and also in England. I'm not sure even now that people ever got it just how bad things were in Edinburgh. That was a bad end but the ride was a completely insane gas.
Both are available in Apple's iBookstore and will only work with iBooks software. That also means it will only tablet which will work with it is an iPad. Google keeps prattling about the androgynous capabilities of Android but we don't care since it can't deliver an iBook.
(Ed: why 'androgynous?')
One size fits all.
The reason for writing the book goes mostly back to Cadillac Man when he said the Ithaka articles about the Rock City were complicated. That triggered the thought, well, that needs to get uncomplicated, doesn't it. Presto, the book started rolling.
Take a bow, CM (larfs).
Don't read that as negative as I suspected the problem anyway so CM helped me by putting it into words. All of it makes perfect sense to me but that doesn't tell me whether it makes sense to anyone else. The book makes the story contiguous and easier to follow although there was a bit of a thought to it being cool as a serial since Mark Twain did ok with serials, highly OK, in fact.
"Rock City" isn't something with a serial nature since we can unravel a story and keep you hooked into what happens next through the entire time but a subterranean construction project is not likely to have the same joie de vivre.
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