[meteorite-list] Re : Book "Les Meteorites de France" - your advice ?

[Pelé Pierre-Marie]

PDF should be fine if it can be read by ipad, kindle and also all computers.

What is hard to do now is to sell it and limiting the risks of copies.   Also,  copy/paste from the PDF file should be disabled but not printing.

Pierre




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De : tracy latimer <daistiho at hotmail.com>
À : pierremariepele at yahoo.fr; meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com 
Envoyé le : Mercredi 23 Novembre 2011 18h00
Objet : RE: [meteorite-list] Book "Les Meteorites de France" - your advice ?


You should be able to convert it over to an e-book for other platforms as easily as for iPad.  Most e-readers can handle a PDF file, so you could either deliver it as a CD-ROM or a download.  Check into what formats are required for some of the more common readers, like Kindle or Nook; we'll lose something in not being able to see the color pictures (and in my case, will have to run it through Babelfish or another translator, because my French is nonexistent!) but there should be some interest in the meteorite community.

Best!
Tracy Latimer

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> Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:15:14 +0000
> From: pierremariepele at yahoo.fr
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Book "Les Meteorites de France" - your advice ?
>
> Hello,
>
> in 2005, I wrote a book called "Les Meteorites de France" which was a
> success in term of sales and was considered as one of the most
> documented about french historical falls.
>
> No this book is not sold any more and my former editor doesn't want to publish a second edition.
>
> I have to find a solution.  Either sell it through an online service such as Lulu.com  but a 500 pages book with many color pictures would be at a really high price (about $80), either sell it as a PDF file on a CDROM
> with a really low cost.    I also thought about selling it as an epub
> book for ipad but it's really complicated and many people don't own an
> ipad.
>
>
> Do you have any other solutions ?   Would you buy this kind of book even written in french ?
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Pierre-Marie Pele
> meteor-center.com
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