Comments on: Whither the PDA (or iPhone) D&D? http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/whither-the-pda-or-iphone-dd/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:30:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Prest0 http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/whither-the-pda-or-iphone-dd/comment-page-1/#comment-1009786 Prest0 Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:18:52 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/01/28/whither-the-pda-or-iphone-dd/#comment-1009786 The biggest barrier to converting from PDF to other formats is still clunky options available for things like tabular data (of which many RPGs are stuffed), sidebars, and illustrations. ePub sounds like a fine format for novels, but it still leaves a lot to be desired for more complex presentation. We at 12 to Midnight have been publishing RPGs in PDF for 5 years. It's not the best e-book format, but it's the format that the RPG industry--and its customers--seem to have adopted as a standard. On the other hand, last year we released a title in PDF and offered a second "deluxe edition" with HTML files. That edition was quite popular, and so far our customers have respected our plea not to post the content online. That has been a positive experience for us, and I would love to offer our RPG titles in other formats. (After all, more choice means more potential customers!) However, in return I'd like to see ePub or other formats handle complex presentation more gracefully. The biggest barrier to converting from PDF to other formats is still clunky options available for things like tabular data (of which many RPGs are stuffed), sidebars, and illustrations. ePub sounds like a fine format for novels, but it still leaves a lot to be desired for more complex presentation.

We at 12 to Midnight have been publishing RPGs in PDF for 5 years. It’s not the best e-book format, but it’s the format that the RPG industry–and its customers–seem to have adopted as a standard. On the other hand, last year we released a title in PDF and offered a second “deluxe edition” with HTML files. That edition was quite popular, and so far our customers have respected our plea not to post the content online.

That has been a positive experience for us, and I would love to offer our RPG titles in other formats. (After all, more choice means more potential customers!) However, in return I’d like to see ePub or other formats handle complex presentation more gracefully.

]]> By: Chris Meadows http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/whither-the-pda-or-iphone-dd/comment-page-1/#comment-1007996 Chris Meadows Thu, 29 Jan 2009 02:05:51 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/01/28/whither-the-pda-or-iphone-dd/#comment-1007996 Mason: Does DriveThru have something other than the unsuitable-for-small-screen-reading ghost-of-a-print-book PDFs I mentioned in the article? If so, what is it? Which books, what formats? Mason: Does DriveThru have something other than the unsuitable-for-small-screen-reading ghost-of-a-print-book PDFs I mentioned in the article?

If so, what is it? Which books, what formats?

]]> By: Mason http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/whither-the-pda-or-iphone-dd/comment-page-1/#comment-1007962 Mason Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:41:45 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/01/28/whither-the-pda-or-iphone-dd/#comment-1007962 Perhaps you're just not looking in the right place. http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/ Perhaps you’re just not looking in the right place.

http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/

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