Hi, Joseph— First of all, you should remove the period in the class attribute (it's needed only in the style sheet): class="hidden". Second, the id name...
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josephHarris
joe9438
Apr 17, 2013 9:55 pm
Sandra, Thank you for your two replies. "Remove period" - shows how long it is since I did any html! Thanks. I've gone a different way for now, but it will be...
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Ernest G. Allen
ernest_g_allen
Apr 17, 2013 9:56 pm
... [...snip...] Change ".hidden" to "hidden"....
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josephHarris
joe9438
Apr 18, 2013 12:07 am
... Thanks Ernest; I promise I am kicking myself! Joseph [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Bonnie Britt
express.editing
Apr 18, 2013 4:01 am
Joseph Harris wrote: I have been trying to make up for a problem of css font on page; no "h1", h2" among other things. This is to make the normal and automatic...
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josephHarris
joe9438
Apr 18, 2013 1:00 pm
... Hi Bonnie, Yes, I've heard Jutoh mentioned as a great program. At a glance it is good for straight text with minimal illustration. But this is loaded with...
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josephHarris
joe9438
Apr 18, 2013 1:00 pm
I recall about ten or a dozen years ago someone on this list claimed to have the first to suggest and use the term "ebook" [it may have been as "e-book",...
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Juliet Sutherland
julietsuth
Apr 18, 2013 5:54 pm
I believe the late Michael Hart of Project Gutenberg often claimed to have invented the term, although he was known to turn small truths into larger ones. ...
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Christopher R. Maden
crismxml
Apr 18, 2013 5:55 pm
... The Wikipedia article[*] notes that the FRESS project at Brown U. in the 1960s used the term “electronic book,” probably due to Prof. Andy van Dam....
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Christopher R. Maden
crismxml
Apr 19, 2013 12:08 am
... I misread the Wikipedia article; that reference was to the term “electronic book.” ... Their earliest citation seems to be the same as the OED: ...
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Richard Seltzer
rwseltzer2000
Apr 19, 2013 1:53 am
When I think of "ebook" I think of "The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams, which was a radio series back in 1978, before it became a printed...
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Kathy.
rappaho
Apr 19, 2013 3:39 am
Hi all, When I think of ebook, I think of Star Trek. Captain Kirk had a few real paper books, but most was done on what looked like an iPad or Kindle. Kathy. ...
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Robotech_Master
robotech_mas...
Apr 19, 2013 9:20 pm
Richard, Kathy: Yes, but the discussion isn't of the origin of the thing that an e-book is, it's the first use of the *word* "e-book". Who first coined that...
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josephHarris
joe9438
Apr 19, 2013 9:20 pm
Juliet, Chris, Richard and Kathy, thank you all for great input on this. So it looks as though "electronic book" was a term and concept-in-action, when...
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Roy Mize
roy@...
Apr 19, 2013 9:21 pm
... John Hollar, CEO of the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. The museum is the premier information technology and computer history museum...
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Robotech_Master
robotech_mas...
Apr 19, 2013 10:32 pm
It seems likely that the term "email" would have had to be in common use before someone thought of the similar term "ebook". The late 1980s sounds about right,...
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thegreedyfish
Apr 22, 2013 2:09 pm
Hi all, I am currently creating my first childrens picture book, expecting to be ready in August. As its so difficult to get a traditional publishing deal I am...
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Kathy.
rappaho
Apr 22, 2013 8:27 pm
... From: thegreedyfish <denthomp2008@...> Does anyone know of where I can pay to get someone to professionally prepare the 20 images as multi format...
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Bonnie Britt
express.editing
Apr 23, 2013 10:23 pm
From: thegreedyfish <denthomp2008@...> Whats the best dimensions to produce each jpeg image/page so that it fits the screen as comfortable as possible...
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thegreedyfish
Apr 24, 2013 11:49 am
Thank you Bonnie - only thing is I would need to know what percentages to use?! Have you worked with picture ebooks yourself? Any advice appreciated as I want...
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Kathy.
rappaho
Apr 24, 2013 6:37 pm
Dennis, If you are not going to have a professional do your picture book, then go to bookbaby.com Picture books of any genera are the hardest to do. Getting...
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Sandra Williams
wmswriting
Apr 25, 2013 12:22 am
Bonnie, do you mean that Dennis should use percentages in the software program in which the ebook is created? Photoshop is a bitmap image editing program....
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Bonnie Britt
express.editing
Apr 26, 2013 9:22 pm
A detailed discussion of adding graphics to ebooks is at this link. While the discussion is by the author of the Jutoh program, the principles are perhaps...
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josephHarris
joe9438
Apr 29, 2013 12:08 am
I recently - elsewhere - posed a question about a clause in the KDP contract; unfortunately someone who claimed to be a lawyer poo-poohed it, discouraging...
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Richard Seltzer
rwseltzer2000
Apr 29, 2013 2:12 am
Interesting question. Keep in mind that Amazon uses automated systems to determine if a book is for sale elsewhere -- faulty software. In my case, they...
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josephHarris
joe9438
Apr 29, 2013 4:59 pm
Richard, Thanks for that. I don't know how many cases there are, but yours is at least the 5th I have come across; here is another ...
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Christopher R. Maden
crismxml
Apr 29, 2013 5:00 pm
... It’s not unilateral if both parties agreed to the practice by contract. If one doesn’t want Amazon to have this power over pricing, one shouldn’t...
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Andrew Darlow
adarlow
May 2, 2013 11:27 pm
Hi folks: I've learned a lot from this group, as well as the Yahoo Print On Demand (POD) group and I thought I'd mention my recent experience with offering a...
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auwg
May 5, 2013 10:58 pm
NOOK Press... any comments? Any crits? Pros/cons, etc... Ed...
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auwg
May 9, 2013 11:11 pm
Ha. Vindication. I caught a little flak after letting gators chomp on a fleeing suspect in a 3WP book. She said it didn't sound realistic enough. I told her to...
