Another day, another blog entry. Had some fun today starting to convert documents for Kindle self-publication. First to convert, a PDF; and then an Adobe Pagemaker document. Mainly it's a question of extracting the text, eliminating some of the formatting, and then inserting or deleting the necessary line breaks—simple, quick work requiring a modicum of concentration, but enjoyable enough if you like the material you're working on.
The PDF isn't my work; but the Pagemaker document is, a book i finished in 2001, my first one. Not really publishable, but useful to me as therapy. It'll give me a laugh to be able to offer it on Amazon (and probably also on Barnes & Noble as an epub) and get to label it with all sorts of relevant tags. More therapeutic payoff. No real money in it, but it'll give me a laugh. Mary Evans will begin to have a presence in e-publishing; quite a step from the books i used to print up for free on the Arizona State University laser printers and then bind & press on homemade equipment.
And hopefully it will motivate me to write more—and have an easy mode of distribution, and even a limited revenue stream. Heh, me as a writer. Finally. Who'd'a' thunk it? :-)
The PDF isn't my work; but the Pagemaker document is, a book i finished in 2001, my first one. Not really publishable, but useful to me as therapy. It'll give me a laugh to be able to offer it on Amazon (and probably also on Barnes & Noble as an epub) and get to label it with all sorts of relevant tags. More therapeutic payoff. No real money in it, but it'll give me a laugh. Mary Evans will begin to have a presence in e-publishing; quite a step from the books i used to print up for free on the Arizona State University laser printers and then bind & press on homemade equipment.
And hopefully it will motivate me to write more—and have an easy mode of distribution, and even a limited revenue stream. Heh, me as a writer. Finally. Who'd'a' thunk it? :-)
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