Good Cop,Dead Cop proof here!

After a lot of back and forth, I’ve received a proof from CreateSpace. So GC,DC is now a 5x8 paperback, 304 pages long.

It looks incredibly good but I’m going to make a few changes including lightening the top half of the Union Station picture on the cover (just a little PhotoShop magic) and probably switching to a cream-colored paper. The very bright white just makes it look a little too self published, and yes I know that’s what it is.

Amazon Kindle check list

The .mobi format the Amazon Kindle uses is very, very simple, and it’s important to remember what you must and cannot do. First up are the don’ts:

• No tables
• No frames

Next are the musts:

• Use Latin-1 encoding. (What’s really nice about the Latin-1 encoding is that if you have smart quotes in Word, they will automatically be turned into the named entities (“ and ” and ’) when pasted into a Dreamweaver document whose page properties specify the Latin-1 encoding. Unfortunately, you’re better off using the UTF-8 encoding if you’re creating an .epub.

Amazon Kindle encoding

Interesting, it seems Amazon Kindle would prefer files uploaded with the Latin-1 encoding, rather than the UTF-8 encoding I just switched all my files to. This is not a huge problem, because it's a simple matter to switch them back and I prefer the Latin-1 encoding.