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Post by Ken on Dec 10, 2020 17:17:34 GMT
If you do then for what type of content?
I remember when Lulu first introduced eBooks they were only interested in the most simple formats suitable mostly for novels, simple stories or text content. Thus their instance on supporting DocX as the way to do it. In fact they were most reluctant to consider more professional means and downplayed anyone’s real understanding of eBook specs and methodologies.
Nothing seems to have have changed with the recent revision of their web structure.
Does anyone here do more with their eBooks please?
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Dec 10, 2020 20:21:14 GMT
I have created them for Speculative Fiction, though I used .doc compatible with Word 97.
I'll reserve comment regarding my opinion of Lulu Press' IT expertise.
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Post by Ken on Dec 11, 2020 17:21:52 GMT
Can you explain Speculative Fiction please?
Not a term I recognize.
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Dec 11, 2020 17:45:49 GMT
Speculative Fiction is the family of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror, along with Super Hero and Science Fantasy among other types. Basically it's fiction that isn't set in the real world, or is not quite in the real world. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculative_fictionThe last novel I submitted to a publisher involved a character who grew up in one reality only to get "kicked" in another, ostensibly via a detonation [nuclear or subatomic, whatever]. It's speculative in that certain historical events from our reality are mixed in with events which didn't happen.
The Science in Science Fiction means things do have to function according to the laws of nature as we currently understand them. The Speculation is based in the things we don't understand yet.
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Post by Ken on Dec 11, 2020 19:10:39 GMT
Thank you for that. Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror, along with Super Hero and Science Fantasy are areas that have never tweaked my interest but then each to their own.
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Dec 11, 2020 20:13:12 GMT
Thank you for that. Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror, along with Super Hero and Science Fantasy are areas that have never tweaked my interest but then each to their own. Ken,
I believe Larika really wasn't into Sci-Fi until she read one of my books. Despite lacking a PhD like my brothers earned, I try to do my research.
The thing to remember is regardless of the particular sub-heading of Speculative Fiction, many of the best tales relate to the human condition all of us share to some extent.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2020 5:18:03 GMT
Thank you for that. Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror, along with Super Hero and Science Fantasy are areas that have never tweaked my interest but then each to their own. Ken,
I believe Larika really wasn't into Sci-Fi until she read one of my books. Despite lacking a PhD like my brothers earned, I try to do my research.
The thing to remember is regardless of the particular sub-heading of Speculative Fiction, many of the best tales relate to the human condition all of us share to some extent.
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Post by BlueAndGold on Dec 12, 2020 14:07:46 GMT
Yes.
Good Sci-Fi stories are about the people and their interaction with the world they live in, not necessarily the Sci (or lack thereof) or the Fi.
An excerpt from the Foreword of SPACE: An Odyssey in Rhyme:
With the rapid acceleration of technological advances in the past half century, the world of this story is no longer a far reach and the possibilities are legion. It is not hard to imagine environment suits made of nano-sized heat pumps, atomics-powered rockets, cold fusion reactors, laser weaponry, artificial intelligence, and any number of other emerging technologies. However, in this story I have refrained from describing much in the way of new technologies and I have used much of the current and familiar. Rather than the hardware they possess, this is a story about people, coping in a future that is patiently waiting for those who would dare to make it.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2020 14:40:49 GMT
An excerpt from the Foreword of SPACE: An Odyssey in Rhyme:I'm co sorry BlueAndGold but it's a little too expensive for my pension. I have to buy necessary things like electric blankets and massage shoulder and back wraps etc. However I opened the "look inside" on Amazon. What I read was excellent. I hope you do well with your book.
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Post by BlueAndGold on Dec 12, 2020 14:51:19 GMT
Thank you, Larika, but I suspect there are very few readers of verse-novels in the world. I'm busy writing the next one now. 
(I obviously didn't enter into this addiction to get rich.)
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2020 15:09:57 GMT
Thank you, Larika, but I suspect there are very few readers of verse-novels in the world. I'm busy writing the next one now.
(I obviously didn't enter into this addiction to get rich.)
I understand why you don't make eBooks of your poetry. I remember, years ago when I bought my first T.S. Elliot. The joy of holding the book of one of my favourite poets in my hand. Then opening it and reading the poems. Wonderful. I've just had the good fortune of buying a TS Elliot eBook for 74p. It's not the same as being able to have the physical book but it's so much easier to read. www.amazon.co.uk/Collected-Works-T-S-Eliot-ebook/dp/B084146YFX/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=T.s.+Elliot+ebook&qid=1607785882&sr=8-4 |
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