You'd think that once you know how to make the ebooks it would get easier but I know with fan fiction depending on where I download the story from it could be a breeze to convert or a nightmare! Then there is the issue of embedding fonts, epub I believe supports it but not mobi or LRF, so if the story has any Polish in it the diacritics don't convert properly without the correct font embedded.
I imagine working with physical copies has it's own set of challenges as you aptly described here!
Then there is the business aspect. I keep running into my own not so great communication skills. I can't sell water to a man dying of thirst in a desert. Though, if I were to get fired, I'd give this option more consideration.
A lot of it does seem to be going out and drumming up some business. However, after reading many blogs and talking to other authors not many people have the necessary skills needed to create a well crafted ebook. Sure there are programs that can help but if you don't know how to read CSS I don't know how a person would get fine control over the illustrations in the document.
I've also found that depending on what platform you're reading the ebook on the formatting elements don't always carry over. It's incredibly frustrating. That and all the different formats have their own quirks. I code everything for epub because mobi and lrf are more forgiving in terms of what codes you use to center images and etc...
I think I now know why so many author's just use the tools at Smashwords and Kindle to upload their ebook. It seems much easier than learning how to create the ebook from scratch.
But I've read that those tools don't always produce the nicest looking ebooks. I can see that there is probably a need for help with these types of services but my strong suit seems to be more technical than managerial. (having said that managers do tend to make the most money)
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I imagine working with physical copies has it's own set of challenges as you aptly described here!
Then there is the business aspect. I keep running into my own not so great communication skills. I can't sell water to a man dying of thirst in a desert. Though, if I were to get fired, I'd give this option more consideration.
A lot of it does seem to be going out and drumming up some business. However, after reading many blogs and talking to other authors not many people have the necessary skills needed to create a well crafted ebook. Sure there are programs that can help but if you don't know how to read CSS I don't know how a person would get fine control over the illustrations in the document.
I've also found that depending on what platform you're reading the ebook on the formatting elements don't always carry over. It's incredibly frustrating. That and all the different formats have their own quirks. I code everything for epub because mobi and lrf are more forgiving in terms of what codes you use to center images and etc...
I think I now know why so many author's just use the tools at Smashwords and Kindle to upload their ebook. It seems much easier than learning how to create the ebook from scratch.
But I've read that those tools don't always produce the nicest looking ebooks. I can see that there is probably a need for help with these types of services but my strong suit seems to be more technical than managerial. (having said that managers do tend to make the most money)