I've noticed that there has been a desire for digital formats other than PDF to be supported by Pathfinder (which I feel they will be supporting soon).
My question is how do consumers feel about 3PP doing so as well?
If you are interested, would it sway your decision in favor of purchasing a book?
What's the main interest in EPUB formats? Low file size for maximum "bookage", and if so, how much art would you want/expect to be excised from the books? (Would you want an EPUB monster book without the art to save on file size, for instance.)
Would you expect the EPUB to come as a freebie if you order the hard copy (like Paizo and other companies are currently doing with PDFs)?
Please let us know what you think! Any other 3PP publishers please list your own questions.
Charles A. Wright
Frog God Games
I tried to do this with the Traveller SRD two years ago. Emphasis on the word "tried." Tables made it near impossible to do it. Sure its just html formatting, but when you're talking screen sizes ranging from 2" to 10", its near impossible to do them and maintain any kind of presentation in it. If the supplement is mostly text, it wouldn't be so hard, but a table heavy book can really turn a project into a nightmare.
We put ours on Amazon, but I think the formating is off. All kind of new to us, but the pdf went infor a review from them and it was approved, but I am not sure of how it looks on the Kindle.
@ Dale
Yeah, I spotted that as being a problem issue right away and have been puzzling over alternate solutions to using tables for these formats.
I really don't think that there's any one good solution and would be reformatting on a case by case basis.... The format itself just isn't table-friendly. :/
@ Dale
Yeah, I spotted that as being a problem issue right away and have been puzzling over alternate solutions to using tables for these formats.
I really don't think that there's any one good solution and would be reformatting on a case by case basis.... The format itself just isn't table-friendly. :/
Pretty much.
Then there's the problem of image sizes. Cell phone size screens can handle an image of widely varying resolutions. So something that looks good on an iphone will look pixelated and unclear on some ... windows mobile phone (just to pick one out of the air). Then throw the ipad into the mix and you have microscopic images. Basically, you'll have to create 4-5 different files depending on which screen size/resolution the file is in.
And don't forget how an image might look good in landscape, but when the device is held upright, the image may be larger than the screen.
Short answer, PDFs are the way to stay in our industry.