Your friend probably wants to use a format that default PalmOS devices can read! I assume there are some commercial preparation services designed for people in this friend's situation, who help professionally prepare the document for sale. Of course if this is a low-budget/shoestring operation, and number of free tools will surely suffice -- although I would suggest doing as much testing as possible, on different readers, devices, using various internationalizations, etc... a lot of technical users will notice the sort of polish that fully composed and produced media should have. One great money-maker (although painfully litigious) would be to produce it and get it lots of marketing, then start suing all the people who share it on p2p networks = ) Ha, ha... cheers,
ben b P.S. business plan: 1) make ebook 2) ?? 3) make money ---is *that* how it goes? On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 12:38, Rob Hudson wrote: > I'm asking for a friend, and so far I don't know too much about eBooks. > I thought thew were like PDFs and Adobe had something to do with them? > What's the Open Ebook and all the other 'ebook' formats mentioned (zTXT, > Rich Reader, TealDoc, Plucker, etc)? > > What's an ebook? Are they just for PDAs? Or more general than that? > If my friend wants to sell an ebook and wants a wide audience, which > format should he be shooting towards? > > Thanks, > Rob _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
