I like Feedbooks from the reader’s point of view – I am constantly downloading out-of-copyright classics off them to my iPhone to pass the time on trains, etc. The Stanza reader works really well, and the books are almost always nicely formatted.
Well, I’d like an ePub version of my work, and the Feedbook conversion actually seems to do the job quite well. I experimented with a version of a short story, and the result was pretty good, it must be said. Even the drop caps that are such a nice feature of the Feedbook titles come out really well.
But there’s a catch…
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To put the book up on the Feedbook site, you must make it public domain. Why? I ask. Why should I be asked to give away the fruits of my labors? Books take time to write, time to edit, time to format. Actually, I wouldn’t mind paying to use the Feedbook conversion service, as long as it let me do what I wanted with the book in the end.
Yes, I can download the file as ePub or mobi or whatever, and put it up on this site, but it comes up with Feedbook’s logos all over it (as one might reasonably expect). However, if anyone is aware of such a conversion program that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg and can produce Kindle and Stanza-compatible books (I am not really willing to shell out $99 on a product which may work excellently, but is an unknown quantity), let me know, please. In the meantime, Lulu will sell you a PDF of the book at $3 (see link at left), but I fear this is a rather unsatisfactory solution for those of you with Kindles, nooks, and iPhones.
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