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I've been speaking with the author for the last year as he worked on the book and have reviewed it. Lot's of good material and a great read for anyone interest
by bherms 14y ago
I've been speaking with the author for the last year as he worked on the book and have reviewed it. Lot's of good material and a great read for anyone interested in building revenue generating side projects. I've got a few of my own side projects up my sleeve and this book helped inspire me to get going again. I'd recommend it, especially once the epub/mobi versions come out.
- joshstrange 14y agoI will pay for it as soon as the epub/mobi version come out so I can read it on my kindle, I despise pdf's for reading books.
- sideprojectbook 14y agomobi/epub will be released next week, everyone will receive an update
- stfu 14y agoJust to make the contrarian point: I absolutely hate any format that is not a pdf file. It puts way too much limitation on the content. Just as an example: I use three "systems" most of the time, one windows, one ubuntu, one android tablet. Pdf works with each one out of the box, I can hight text or copy/past it, edit them, heck even open them in some graphic editing software and extract illustrations as vectors, save it in different formats. In contrast to that, for epub/mobi I don't even know what their native editing tool is so I can convert them into pdfs.
- davidw 14y agoThe problem with PDFs is that they make a lot of assumptions about layout and formatting, whereas mobi and epub are HTML based, and therefore work on a much larger array of devices - from mobile phones to Kindle for PC, including, critically, eInk based readers which are way better for sitting down to read than anything LCD based.
- nathanbarry 14y agoThough if you are writing a book about design you often want the level of formatting and design ability that a PDF gives you. It's hard to give that up with an ePub.
- davidw 14y agoIf you need something to be pixel-precise, you'd probably just include a .png file. eBooks aren't perfect for everything, though. I think a design book, for instance, is something I'd rather read as a paper book.
- whatusername 14y agoIf you haven't checked out Calibre for conversions then you should. As others have said - the issue with PDF's is that they assume A4/Letter size. When you're reading on a smaller screen (especially a basic e-ink one) the content is much more important.
- kroger 14y agoBut a PDF doesn't have to be A4/Letter. I published a book recently (ebook in PDF, ePub and mobi and paperback) and decided to use 6.69 x 9.61 inches for the PDF. I found that this size looks good on paper and on screen.
- davidw 14y agoHe just signed up with my own bootstrapped business, http://www.LiberWriter.com http://www.LiberWriter.com so we'll be producing one for him ASAP:-)