The S∂ eBookery
The Mission
The S∂ eBookery is devoted to creating eBooks digestible by the Kindle, which usually means Mobipocket books. Fortunately, these are also digestible by many other e-reader devices and software, so the eBookery is not a purely Kindle resource (though I pay the most attention to the Kindle).
Quality
Quality in the eBookery means
- reading text for semantic clues and formatting appropriately
- providing a table of contents for every book divided into chapters, for the comfort of your readers as paging through eBooks is not practical in any e-reader device or software
- ensuring that copyright/copyleft/other rights documentation is present and legally applied
- no DRM of any kind
- quality support for super-linked works: those that rely heavily on linking between pages
The last quality above means I support turning websites of small size into eBooks with plenty of hyperlinking. “Small size” here means anywhere from one file to 50 files, counting images. A good example is the Shadow Unit eBook.
Technical Support
Technical support is provided with every eBookery eBook; so if you discover that something’s wrong, I’ll do my best to fix it in a timely matter (where timely can be flexible from a day to a week and a half; I do have a taxing full-time day job with many cases for overtime work).
One thing I will not do is add DRM to any eBookery eBook.
Requests
I do take requests, but I may turn down requests on a whim—after all, due to a stringent non-compete, I’m able to engage in this little hobby but I can not receive payment for it.
Requests can be for the following, as long as they are quite legal in the U.S.:
- public domain, non-derivative works that both you and I like
- Creative Commons works where the author gives permission to create an eBook
- Copyrighted works when the author or editor is the direct requester
I don’t care whether you want the eBook to be available for free distribution anywhere, or if you want complete control (although any DRM you’d have to apply yourself) after I hand the eBook off to you. I don’t care what license you want the eBook released under (as long as I can legally create the eBook in the first place). In most cases I ask only that attribution to the eBookery is provided along with the eBook, however it is distributed; but in some cases I will waive that.
