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1 hour ago, afreakofnature said:

PDF might work as an ebook.  Just don’t know how you could protect it from being “shared”

You're right. I'm writing a book right now and a pdf is difficult to protect.


1 hour ago, afreakofnature said:

PDF might work as an ebook.  Just don’t know how you could protect it from being “shared”

Yes, don’t think you could. 
 

5 hours ago, Reno Chris said:

 

I was actually asked that previously in this thread - this is my response from Oct. 2019 and really nothing has changed:

 

I thought I’d asked that before - sorry  ?

 

You have to get a PDF in order to send the book to the printer. That is what they use to get the printing adjustments from. Chris is right with the ebook not being viable. It is easy to pirate, it will hamstring your paperback book sales, it doesn't work well will books like Chris's and mine. Like Chris, my book has 170 full color photos and it screws up the whole flow of the book because of the dementions of devices being viewed on. My next book, "Strategic Gold Detecting - The Art & Science Of Gold Nugget Exploration and Recovery" will have around 350 full color photos. As an ebook that would make the length of the book enormous. The issue of the book being pirated is a huge discission for Chris and myself we have put an enormous amount of time into writing these books, taking the photos which can take years to acquire, then after it is written it still has to be layed out in a format that is appealing and flowing as you read it. The bigger the book the bigger the challenge. Then you have someone in China or someplace else stealing the book, printing off pages, triming things off of it and making a new PDF and reprinting it and distributing it around the world. A week after I received my book from the printer, someone from China got ahold of my book, and when I looked this guy up on the internet I found that he takes images and recreate them. My book got pirated a week after it was released. This will really tick you off. Chris is right to not want to do ebook versions. I have dealers in several States plus I have my website. I looked into distributors but they will severely destroy your profit margin, and that is something I myself am not willing to do. Print on demand is a money making venture for the company printing the book, not the author, plus the books are made by high end copiers, not by web press. You will always have a higher quality product by going the route of a web press.The print on demand was going to cost me four times more to print than getting printed on a web press. At those costs you can't create a book and make a profit.

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Books in PDF format though would be so handy. It allows you to quickly search as well as keep everything in the right order like the authors are saying. Plus I can store thousands of references on my iPad so when I go in the field, or on a trip, I can quickly look stuff up if I need to. I hope they try to figure that out because it really is the way to go if they can get security somehow. Having a paper book, although it’s nice to have in the house and on the shelf, is not something that is really feasible for quick research anymore.  It’s really nice that most of the scientific publications are in PDF format now.

BTW Fists of Gold is a fantastic book!

I'll keep looking into it Brian. I got one quote for reconfiguring the layout of my book for ebook and it was aroun $800-$1000 just to do that. I am still waiting for my publisher to get an answer back from the bigger publisher that can put it in ebook format. Also as far as carrying it in the field in a pack, that is why I made my book 6x9. I will keep looking though. There has to be a good company out there with decent prices.

Brian, what is the dementions of your iPad? And have you ever had one of those things break or crack a screen in a backpack?

You don’t have to make them on my accord.  I’m just saying that I like them better.

I don’t take my iPad with me when I am actually detecting.  If i need a certain map or reference I put it on my phone.  Back at camp I use my iPad.  I do field map every day 6 months out of the year with my iPad mini.  Been using that for over 7 years now and never broke a screen, keep in a side pouch and only use a Zagg screen protector.  

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