The actual launch of Closed Circle is getting close enough I’m going to spend time this evening actually assembling several e-books, notably Faery in Shadow and The Writing Life: A Writer’s Journal vol 1-3. Those will be the first out. Rusalka is ready, but Jane is not ready to do the cover yet. She’s prepping her own books and doing her own covers. I’ll let her tell you about those.
What I have to do is: 1. assemble the book in mobi format. 2. assemble the book in its entirity except the cover and get it into Calibre (ePub). 3…and here’s where inventiveness fails me: you guys that want rtf, how do I get the cover and internal artwork, maps, whatever, into that format? I don’t see it.
Then 4) I have to copyright all of them, a little adventure with the US Copyright office involving fees and applications and the transfer of files.
Hmmn. Maybe instead of trying to do this in the evening when I’m already tired, Jane and I need to go through this process while I have a brain, in the daytime.
At any rate, we are getting that close. There’s a whole lot left to do: I have to compose the text on the site. I have to upload all the downloads and be sure they work with the payment mechanism. So does Jane. So does Lynn. Lynn’s got more than we do that she has to do, because she’s running the technical end, plus she’s doing a new feature of her own, on which she will raise the curtain at the appropriate time. I left all my files in pieces, because I still have to insert the copyright info and other things and knit everything together. Mobi wants it in pieces, Calibre wants it in two pieces only, and who knows what I’ll need to do with the rtf. Ideas are welcome. We hope to have it glitch-free by the time we fling the doors open.
I really want to be able to read the books on Kindle. I’m hoping that in the end I will be able to import it in.
THat’ll be no problem, as I understand it. You download a mobi file to your laptop, then move it to the Kindle.
I have a feeling when we open the doors we’re going to have a lot of posting back and forth about how to do these various things. But the Kindle files are mobi drm; the only thing drm does is prevent you copying it. We’re mobi without drm, so it should be really easy.
WritingMom: Mobi and PRC without DRM are fine on the Kindle. I do it all the time. Just plug it into a USB port and copy into the documents folder on the Kindle Drive. If, like me, you have the K1 you can also copy to the SD card which shows up as a separate drive.