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I'm thinking about putting out some comics for the Kindle. I'm looking for a group of beta readers to verify I'm on the right track and coming up with something that at least looks presentable on an actual Kindle. Not having one, but having a good idea of the technology underlying it, I could use some help. Feel free to PM/email if you've got a Kindle, a USB cable and a free twenty minutes.
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I'm going to use variations of my name separated by different tones. For surreal, funny things I'm going with Joey Peters. Right now I'm in the process of editing a bunch of old manuscripts. Anyway, I'm working through my old stories and prepping them as ebooks. Here's my first two.  Perdition Lost A dead guy and his demon best friend break out of Hell after the devil quits his job. They want to just lay low but it doesn't take long for them to get recruited into bringing the devil back home. Along the way they encounter angels, alchemists, and eldritch abominations. This, way back in the day, was the very first novel I wrote. I've spent the last couple months gutting it. I've probably cut a quarter out of the last draft and then rewrote another 30%.  Starship Victory: The Last Boy on Earth It's Season 1, Episode 1 of a series of intertwining short stories that will build together into a serial novel. The Starship Victory was supposed to check up on the technological process of a civilization, but instead finds a smoking cinder in it's place. The Victory's crew of humans, cyborgs, turtles and space gods must untangle this most mysterious knot before the dangerous hyper-entity on the surface destroys them.
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Nov 26, 2011 05:57
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I could see it being some kind of worthwhile deal if Amazon provided some actual backup but I agree that they'll probably just let you drop the price to zero for a little bit or something. I mean you can do that on Smashwords easily (and it'll migrate to Amazon via that, or sometimes Amazon will just decide your book's free anyway).
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Dec 9, 2011 05:31
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There's a couple people in the porn thread in Business/Finance who are making a healthy living and a few others (myself included) who are making a significant proportion of the money they make at their normal job.
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Jun 1, 2012 13:13
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Last I checked Calibre didn't support them. For now you'll have to make them by hand. Amazon has a page about KF8. There's some examples on the right sidebar that you can pick apart. As for fixed format epubs, I'm not even sure any ereaders properly parse them. I haven't encountered any in the wild and I know Barnes and Nobel has their own format like Amazon.
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Jan 6, 2013 06:18
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Pen names are a marketing tool, more than anything. I have like five pen names... One for erotica, one for gross erotica that would horrify vanilla people, one for YA stuff, then for the stuff write for me, if it's serious in posture or artistically complicated in any way it gets Joseph, and if it's goofy or fun it gets Joey. So long as your stuff is clearly delineated, it's obvious what is serious and what is funny, I think you can make out fine.
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Jul 28, 2013 01:18
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I wouldn't get too worked up just yet. Kobo has a history of dumb poo poo. (And they're like .5% of market anyway) I'm more worried about the maxi-purge going on at Amazon. Between that and their fuckery with their search engine/page rankings last month I'm selling more at Barnes and Noble and iTunes (separately).
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Oct 14, 2013 12:39
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Createspace probably only spits out standard format kindle files which are essentially HTML pages with limited markup. You could probably hand make a kindle format 8 file, which was explicitly created by Amazon so their fancier kindles can display complicated graphics content. I know Amazon has released a tool to make kf8 comics. I guess they might have a tool for children's books too.
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Oct 31, 2013 17:48
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That piddling new feature really doesn't sound worth giving up iTunes and Barnes and Noble for it. But such is the nature of KDP Select.
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Nov 2, 2013 17:29
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ArchangeI posted:Lets just say the thread went the same way and got axed. Don't kid yourself. That thread started off that way, the only change it underwent was a hard turn for the hug box. It only took one troll from FYAD to completely derail it with dozens of goons who write creepy incest porn trying to justify it to themselves.
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Dec 5, 2013 05:35
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Greetings. I'm Joey Peters. I post from time to time in this thread from time to time. I've been slaving away in the Erotica Mines for a while. Unlike many others, I actually do enjoy it, but my heart and soul still lies elsewhere. My plan for this year largely hinges on trying to make some money on the stuff that I really, genuinely love writing. First up is my new novel, Moonlit Massacres:  Max knows he has a monster deep inside himself. He can control it most of the time—fight the depraved and nightmarish hungers—but on the night of the full moon he can't help but give in to his dark desires and he is consumed by his lycanthropic nature. After assaulting the home of a drug lord Max discovers that he's not the only monster out there. Soon, Max is pulled into a gang war between a vampire and a mysterious sorcerer. They try to use his best friend Rose as leverage—but she has a secret of her own. Can Max and Rose calm the discordant devils inside themselves? Can they quiet the conflict between Iron Vlad and Doctor Limba before it boils over? Or will they be consumed by their bestial desires and live a life of moonlit massacres? Kindle Nook, and it'll be up on iTunes probably soon. And next up is Perdition Lost:  When the Devil abdicates the throne of Hell the netherworld is thrown into disarray. It's not surprising that many of the damned try to use the chaos to try and escape the smoldering cauldrons of damnation, but Pete's best friend is a demon, so he succeeds where many others fail. Once back on Earth he wants nothing more than go track down his old friends, family and lovers and resume his old life. Unfortunately for him, the conflict below is boiling over and it's only a matter of time before Pete and his best friend Dante get pulled back into the infernal war. The Devil's chosen successor isn't popular with the legions of Hell. The Angel of Death has gone mad. Baba Yaga is planning something, though nobody is completely certain what she's planning. On their quest to restore order to the discord of hell they meet a variety of angels, demons, alchemists, eldritch abominations and a variety of figures from European mythology. Can Dante and Pete calm the looming conflict? Or will all Hell break loose? Kindle Nook iTunes I've taken enough of your time. Back to the porn mines for me.
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Jan 17, 2014 19:21
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I do almost all my writing these days in Google Docs on a chrome book. It'll start to choke on files longer than ten thousand words or so, but it's super portable (and most things can be split into multiple files). After that I'll copy paste it into Open Office as plain text and format it by hand from there. It's easy enough to find/replace two spaces with one or a space at the end of a line with nothing. Read up in the help files about "regular expressions".
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Feb 20, 2014 02:01
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I use of those cheapo Acer Chrome Books. I've got one of the smallest, lightest and cheapest computers available. It weighs a fairy's fart more than my wife's iPad. It cost me like $140. It fits my purposes just fine. Google Docs is undoubtedly the best app for writing on a Chrome Book. There are a few other office apps but they suck. The web version of Open Office is slow as hell. There's a few straight text editors. They're web apps. It's kind of the best you could hope for. Like i said above, Google Docs can be slow while editing big files. I'm pretty sure my performance issues with Google Docs are universal. It's slightly less laggy opening novel length files on my main computer but it's still way too slow. It's not problematic if you split up your text files every 10k words or so. Typing into it felt a little weird at first. For the last like decade I've used Open Office. I'm used to it now. But other than that Google Docs kills the competition. It's as fast as I can imagine a web app being. It automatically saves every change to the cloud if you have a network connection and you can set it up to run offline. I usually tether it off my cell phone because I can't imagine it uses much data. And if you're a Unix smartey wizard man you can install a Linux desktop over top of the Chrome window system. I've experimented with that a bit, but it can be kinda wobbly. It sucks up lots of battery, but Open Office runs okay. Chrome OS doesn't like you tinkering with it too much though. It's prone to weird errors and freak outs. I still use my main computer for covers and editing, but honestly a Chrome Book isn't good for much other than writing.
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My favorite hold over from the erotica thread is now every time I write anything I try to work in a transgender character, not because I want to be more inclusive or anything, but because gender swap fetishists will buy ANYTHING with gender transformation themes.
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