For the past years; I’ve been working with my sites as I write content like a book. I believe some people may experience some difficulties when reading posts that are written like chapters of a book. If you have posts that are long as 4000 words, and you were trying to segment your long stories into chapters; you may encounter some problems when some of your visitors have trouble navigating on your site,–reading from one post to the another.
Blind Draft2Digital Users & the Attack of the Visual Interface… & Accessibility Issues
Recently; I experimented with a screen-reader, Chromevox on my Chromebook. I updated to the latest version of Chrome OS. If you were recently using a keyboard navigation… it used to work, now broken! That leads you to these following questions:
What’s Wrong With YouTube’s Content ID & Why You Should Boycott It?
This is a post what YouTube don’t want you to read! Well, an effort to boycott DMCA isn’t just enough, it also contains information about an issue when you are uploading videos on this site, and why you should be very careful when you are creating something new.
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Don’t spoof your viewers who are about to reuse your E-book!
Some people didn’t even understand! If you published your book, and licensed it under Creative Commons license; it’s irrevocable when published in paperback. But some publishers are trying to claim their book is CC-licensed, but what they are doing is spoofing viewers, and readers,–causing licenses to be invalid.
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Choosing Draft2Digital over Amazon KDP
I’ve been recently publishing my E-books for a couple of months with Draft2Digital. However, I’ve started to avoid signing up for Amazon KDP because, their guidelines are strict, and they always use DRM for all of their E-books; they’re been also criticized because, they’ve condoned production of foie gras,–documented by Mercy For Animals. There’s lots of controversies on amazon.com (according to Wikipedia).
When you first sign up for Draft2Digital self-publishing service, the interface isn’t cluttered at all. I tried it out with my Chromebook,–while my screen-reader is running. Your account is active right away!
You start off with an empty list of books. All you have to do just add a book what you’ve just written. When you first hit the button to add a book, the wizard begins. You start off with uploading your book file. I’ve first tried a Google Document, but it’s not supported. Then I tried a regular DOC file instead, and it works. I’ve also writing a title and description for my E-book. I’ve started off with small E-books, then I started larger versions later on.
I’ve chosen categories for my E-book. The ISBN is automatically generated as I go to the next page of the wizard.