Matt, ive got a regular "ghetto" nook, remember? Lol

Just get an iPad Matt, seriously a much better investment

Apple snob ;)

Boo apple! Android all the way!

Apple snob and proud of it !

I'd love to. Unfortunately, it's not about what I want, it;s about making sure people who own other devices could buy LTS as an e-book, so I need to check how it's formatted. So far, the earliest results have been disappointing, because the book is pure graphics and very little plain text. E-readers don't accommodate that very well.

I'm also an Apple snob.

Do you need me to preview it or did you find one already?

For what it's worth, I am reading a book on my Nook now that has a simple symbol the author wanted to portray and it came across just fine. It's NOTHING like the graphics in LTS, but it did come through.

Let me know if you need me to take a look or something.

Someone took a look for me. It didn't look good. Formatting for the Kindle has been a NIGHTMARE, and that's with a preview app I can check every few minutes! I can't imagine how I'd format for a reader I can't even see. If B&N won't release a previewer app to help its developers, they can't expect to compete with Kindle for much longer because nobody will put up with the hassle of trying to format a whole file that they can't even see until it's uploaded to their physical device.

LTS for Kindle is tough because Kindle won't let text sit on top of graphics. So all those pages where letter text is on a decorated background--gone. Unfurling's entire letter is text on top of graphics, so her letter loses all the art and just becomes plain text on a screen. And there are FOUR different Kindle devices (Kindle, Kindle DX, Kindle for Ipad, Kindle for iPhone), ALL of which format a page differently, which means the pages will look different on every device, PLUS readers can change text size which FURTHER mucks up the formatting. So I expect I'll put untold hours of work for weeks into formatting it just right, and still get complaints that "it doesn't look right! It's formatted badly!" Text ends mid-page because the next graphic is so large it has to have a screen all to itself (and Kindle isn't smart enough to continue the next text section until a screen is full and THEN stick up the graphic). A tiny graphic like a logo or icon, is fine--as Devin points out above. But a graphic design plethora like LTS is impossible to format faithfully. Remember, too, that Kindle only has its basic font, so all text is identical.

Then when you view it on Kindle for iPad, it's in glorious color--but the iPad screen is so much larger than a Kindle's that the formatting is messed up again. And graphics are automatically flush left, so it's like pictures are just kinda stuck into the screen. Oh, and this is all being done with a paid professional programmer following my instructions, so it's not like I'm just amateurishly whacking it all together.

So a lot of the graphics simply have to be eliminated...LTS for Kindle will not even be CLOSE to the paper book experience.

Boy, do I know how to market my product, or what?

"This thing is a piece of crap and looks terrible and doesn't work right! Coming soon!"

hahahahaha, please send me one RIGHT AWAY!!! If it could have 0 guarantee and bad reviews, that would be great, also!

I say you have 2 options. Ask this professional programmer if it's possible to get it "right" given all the different devices and such. If the answer is yes... Good luck. Go for it.

If the answers no, why don't you just keep it in book format? I think an awful lot would be lost if it's not formatted right and that would be a shame for someone to think the book sub-par because they don't realize how well the original really is done. Of course... I tend to be a perfectionist when it's comes to things that are my "projects," but sometimes it hasn't served me so well, so.... Maybe it's not the best advice, lol. I know how bad you want to make it "right" though...

I totally agree with Devin. If the new devices out there completely destroy the beauty of the original product, then, I would pull back from it, until the device "catches up" to the technology needed to see the book as it is supposed to be.

I know I am old school. I tend to have problems reading things that have too many editorial blips. I see the blips, and get lost in them. I don't see the words anymore. I read a book from Oprah's book club once. It had so many simple errors that I ended up "editing" the book instead of reading it. I think the story was probably wonderful, but could not begin to tell you. I would rather you leave LTS as it is, in book form, than to try to get it all over the market, but have it poorly represented in those other arenas.

How about an editing for e-devices that cannot support the graphics, that plainly tells the e-device reader what they are missing (in effect), without trying to force the device to accommodate the impossible....or, find a way to "offer" the book edition of LTS somewhere in the uploaded e-book edition...so the reader could eventually get to see the way it is supposed to look. Just a thought.

I don't own any readers, but if I did, and I was told the "book is better than the e-device version", then I might eventually let go of the e-device and go back to the "old way" of doing it. You know, books. In some ways, old is best. Don't try to force the device to take the format if it won't support it...hold out, until technology catches up.

I worked in the book publishing industry for years. So long ago in fact we would have put a book together like yours by paste up, since it was before computers.....Then along came computers and books became even harder to put together because files didn't transfer easily between computers. To send one font we had to package up the screen font, computer font, and the printer font. To send a book like yours to the printers would have taken hours and consisted of hundreds of files. Thankfully PDF's came along.

The problem you having is much like used to happen in the "olden days" with incompatible file formats. I take it you can't just convert your book to a PDF then convert to the ebook format. If the pictures won't display properly, what about separating the text from the images, then convert the images to a PDF and have the text lay over top? I am out of my league here as I have never worked with ebooks, but usually the work around solution lies in separating the images from the text, saving them in a single format rather than as separate pictures, and then combining them with the text again.

Maybe I could bypass the retailers and sell a complete .pdf version from my website for half the price of the book. People could see the entire book as it SHOULD be, at less cost to them and zero cost to me. An e-book reader couldn't read it, but they could have it on their computers.

Excellent idea!! Seriously.

I think if the book is accessible, in the form, as originally intended...so what if it isn't nookable.

I would hate to imagine it out there, all fragmented and disjointed, just hoping someone could get the gist of the words...because, face it...the artwork adds so much to the words -- it just does.

I love the .pdf idea. Less costly is a selling point, AND a production point...and, the end result, the words are out there...the beauty of the book intact, and the hard work isn't lost to technology-yet-to-be.

I love that idea. Besides, who has an ebook but no computer?

Since you only get a small portion of what a book retails for, selling it yourself may be more profitable. I'd go for a bit more than half price :) As well you have such good contacts with the people who would read this book that your potential to market it yourself is phenomenal.

I'm pretty sure you will be fighting technology all the way as, from what I know of ebooks, they are text based. There's always the possbility to do it in the future when the conversion will be easier.

Be sure to post the link to the PDF of the book on fb so we can all promote it as well.