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Post by BlueAndGold on Jul 29, 2020 12:00:23 GMT
Please refresh my memory: Are our book previews gone forever from Lulu's bookstore or will they come back? If they are gone forever, are there realistic and/or timely plans to allow us to re-create them?
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Post by And Kevin 2024 on Jul 30, 2020 1:17:09 GMT
The old ones were Flash, and very lo-res. But very useful all the same. Flash is now said to be unsafe (my W10 pro PC always asks fer permission to run it) and many places have dropped it in favour of some form of HTML. Lulu do not actually seem to employ software writers, just site tinkerers, so unless they can buy a Preview tool from somewhere I doubt it will return. Lulu's owner, Bob Young, seems to specialise in buying software and sites, not creating it. Thankfully many other sites, such as Amazon, generate Previews, even of Lulu books that end up there. See >> www.amazon.co.uk/Keep-That-Noise-Down-WEECC-ebook/dp/B013RGSFLY/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=Kevin+lomas&qid=1596071578&sr=8-2(Hrmm, were did that Age Level come from? It's not exactly right. The book is 16 to infinity I would have said, it's not YA.) |
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Post by BlueAndGold on Jul 30, 2020 1:55:52 GMT
It was nice to customize the previews. Can't seem to do that with Amazon.
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Post by And Kevin 2024 on Jul 31, 2020 3:28:59 GMT
"It was nice to customize the previews. Can't seem to do that with Amazon."
That's true. But at least it's not 40% of the pages as per that Google option in our Project lists. Gosh did I stop clicking yes to that when I realised!
I suppose on Lulu there's still the option of uploading a preview of pages that people can download, like the option some use with ePubs there. A short docx.
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Post by benziger on Aug 1, 2020 14:53:34 GMT
Lulu Support Case 02526788 from July, 30th:
"What happened to the preview? I can't find it in my projects or in the bookstore. In the Help section, however, it is still described as it was in the old days: in the Bookstore FAQ and in the Publishing Tool Overview.
Does the preview still exist?
If so, where can I find it in the projects? Where in the Bookstore?
If not, when will it come back?"
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Post by And Kevin 2024 on Aug 2, 2020 1:55:18 GMT
There should be a link to your Storefront to the right of your list of projects. Do be careful though because right next to it is Delete Storefront option.
Hrrm, just looking at the new format there, not logged in, but after a search for my name, there's no longer a link to ePub version from printed, and vice versa. It also calls them ebooks, and not ePubs.
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