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 Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 4:21 pm Post subject: What makes a Great eBook? The author! |
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| spada3000 wrote: | | Anyone have an opinion on what makes a great ebook? Any suggestions as to which ones I should look at? |
Great eBooks are authored to take advantage of the authoring features present in the authoring software.
I have a couple of eBooks from Everyman Chess. They have almost all of their paper-book products available in this format now, featuring instant download. These use a ChessBase family product as the "Reader Software" and are an excellent model of the answer to "what makes a great ebook?"
http://www.everymanchess.com/
Currently available eBooks for Bookup do not take even elementary advantage of the authoring feature set available to authors.
For example, one of Bookup's most heavily promoted features is the ability to indicate Transpositions (with a T), i.e. positions within the eBook that can be arrived at by a different move order. However (and I have purchased all available Bookup eBooks) no commercially available Bookup eBook will display a transposition as published. This is because author's have imported games to create their eBooks without understanding that they must use Bookup Professional's Commands|Recalculate UNCandidates... routine to enable this viewing of positions of transposition when lines have not been manually input. Those customers using Bookup Express as their "Reader Software" cannot corrrect for this oversight, as only Bookup Professional customers have this routine built in to their product.
Currently, there are no eBooks available that use any of the new authoring tools available in Chess Openings Wizard. This is sad.
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