Skadi here, Sue's assistant. I'm in despair over Smashwords. Sue, while making sympathetic noises, is more excited that my current dilemma will make a great blog entry. So here is my premium confusion post.
Four eBooks have been published on Amazon and Smashwords. One of the attractions of publishing your eBook also on Smashwords is getting listed in their Premium Catalogue. If (!) you are listed, Smashwords will automatically distribute your eBook to major online retailers such as Apple, Barnes & Noble, Borders Australia and Angus & Robertson Australia (both powered by Kobo).
Being listed is thus very attractive and desirable.
However (!) to get Premium, you have to abide to the Smashwords style guide ensuring your document is compatible on a variety of readers and computers in a range of formats. Makes sense.
What doesn't make sense is that three out of four of eBooks got immediate premium listing, but one is being continuously rejected.
My desperation with Premium
The fabulous World Yoga Festivals Guide 2011 is the one that got rejected. Again. Three times. (Yes, I do take this more to heart than I probably should). I have dutifully revised and updated as per the reviewer's suggestions, but it appears we are now stuck on the review of 20 March. And so today we decided to email Mark of Smashwords directly to ask for his advice ...
Dear Mark,
It's great having my eBooks published on Smashwords. Three are premium listed (yey!) - but one is continuously rejected.
World Yoga Festivals Guide - http://www.smashwords.com/
All suggestions have been addressed - yet the same rejection of 03/20/11 is given for a resubmission of 03/29/11. I am confused.
Attached what was submitted on 03/29/2011 and (again) rejected with the 03/20/11 review. My comments on the review in italics:
I'd greatly appreciate your feedback and advice as to what next.
Thank you.
Kind regards,
Sue White
A little background
Four eBooks have been published on Amazon and Smashwords. One of the attractions of publishing your eBook also on Smashwords is getting listed in their Premium Catalogue. If (!) you are listed, Smashwords will automatically distribute your eBook to major online retailers such as Apple, Barnes & Noble, Borders Australia and Angus & Robertson Australia (both powered by Kobo).
Being listed is thus very attractive and desirable.
However (!) to get Premium, you have to abide to the Smashwords style guide ensuring your document is compatible on a variety of readers and computers in a range of formats. Makes sense.
What doesn't make sense is that three out of four of eBooks got immediate premium listing, but one is being continuously rejected.
My desperation with Premium
The fabulous World Yoga Festivals Guide 2011 is the one that got rejected. Again. Three times. (Yes, I do take this more to heart than I probably should). I have dutifully revised and updated as per the reviewer's suggestions, but it appears we are now stuck on the review of 20 March. And so today we decided to email Mark of Smashwords directly to ask for his advice ...
From: Sue White
To: Smashwords
Dear Mark,
It's great having my eBooks published on Smashwords. Three are premium listed (yey!) - but one is continuously rejected.
World Yoga Festivals Guide - http://www.smashwords.com/
All suggestions have been addressed - yet the same rejection of 03/20/11 is given for a resubmission of 03/29/11. I am confused.
Attached what was submitted on 03/29/2011 and (again) rejected with the 03/20/11 review. My comments on the review in italics:
If you view your book in EPUB you can see that your text is converting into a red font color.
When I view it in EPUB font is black.
Also, your book contains multiple font styles, and these styles are sending conflicting and inconsistent instructions to our converters. To see how the problem manifests, view your book through EPUB. Please fix the consistency of your font styles.
It has only one font style - Times New Roman.
#2 Please activate "show/hide" many of your paragraphs terminate with a manual line feed (the backward arrow), when they should instead be a hard paragraph return (what you create when you hit ENTER key). Please strip out all manual line feeds and replace with paragraph returns. This will ensure more consistent formatting of your ebook.
All manual returns have been removed and replaced with paragraph returns.
In addition, not all e-reading devices can handle color well. Please don't use colored fonts. When you're finished correcting your book, go to Dashboard: "upload new version" to upload the new version. Thanks.
It only has black colour font.
When I view it in EPUB font is black.
Also, your book contains multiple font styles, and these styles are sending conflicting and inconsistent instructions to our converters. To see how the problem manifests, view your book through EPUB. Please fix the consistency of your font styles.
It has only one font style - Times New Roman.
#2 Please activate "show/hide" many of your paragraphs terminate with a manual line feed (the backward arrow), when they should instead be a hard paragraph return (what you create when you hit ENTER key). Please strip out all manual line feeds and replace with paragraph returns. This will ensure more consistent formatting of your ebook.
All manual returns have been removed and replaced with paragraph returns.
In addition, not all e-reading devices can handle color well. Please don't use colored fonts. When you're finished correcting your book, go to Dashboard: "upload new version" to upload the new version. Thanks.
It only has black colour font.
I'd greatly appreciate your feedback and advice as to what next.
Thank you.
Kind regards,
Sue White
Stay tuned for Mark's response.
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