{"id":2291,"date":"2009-07-07T18:15:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-07T23:15:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-03-27T21:22:22","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T02:22:22","slug":"time-travel-stories-kindle-book-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2009\/07\/07\/time-travel-stories-kindle-book-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Time Travel Stories: Kindle Book &#8220;Time Quadrants&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_F_I2jb9dIrA\/SlODOIibL1I\/AAAAAAAAAik\/B4Nx9o3Rqmk\/s1600-h\/BigGrid.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 179px;\" src=\"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/BigGrid.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5355768660706930514\" \/><\/a>I had been toying with the idea of seeking a bigger audience for those four time travel stories that I&#8217;ve blogged about over the past month.  So deciding to act rather than dither, I packed them up into a tidy little anthology called <b>Time Quadrants<\/b>.  <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The first step was laying them out in InDesign just as if I were going to publish a bound book.  It made a tidy little package, with about a 100 pages or so of actual text.  However, sending it to the printer was never my goal here.  I wanted to hit the ebook markets with a dirt cheap price and see if I could reach people who never saw the tweets or the blogs.  <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I exported the book from InDesign to the Dreamweaver format, with was just HTML.  I cleaned that up and added the kindle-specific features like page breaks between stories, etc.  I trimmed the graphics down to bare bones grayscale versions and put together a simple cover in Illustrator.  This was an exercise in getting a product out with a minimum of expense.  I didn&#8217;t want a large setup cost that I&#8217;d have to consider when setting the price.  <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>After uploading and testing the book in Kindle&#8217;s DTP site, I gave it a 99-cent price tag and turned it loose.  I&#8217;ll do the same as a mobi-format book to the independent distributors as soon as I work out a technical glitch (FTP isn&#8217;t working on my network).  If I get an indication of demand for it, I&#8217;ll add other formats.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I suppose if it is well received, I might produce a paper copy, but that has to wait for now.  I can&#8217;t match the low-end pricing once I start that route.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>So, if you have kindle-toting buddies, or if the idea of a convenient package appeals to you, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B002G9UFXU\">click here<\/a> and head over to the Amazon site.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had been toying with the idea of seeking a bigger audience for those four time travel stories that I&#8217;ve blogged about over the past month. So deciding to act rather than dither, I packed them up into a tidy little anthology called Time Quadrants. The first step was laying them out in InDesign just&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2009\/07\/07\/time-travel-stories-kindle-book-time\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Time Travel Stories: Kindle Book &#8220;Time Quadrants&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2292,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[115,24,8,13],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/BigGrid.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4t90x-AX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2293,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291\/revisions\/2293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}