I can finally report that after a dozen or so attempts, I have finally managed to get the E-book working...(on Adobe Digital Editions) at least. It has only taken me a few weeks, but has cost me years in additional wrinkles.
Whether I can replicate the process remains to be seen, especially as I had to trawl though hundreds of forums, reading thread after thread of high end techno babble that I really wished I was clever enough to understand.
Eventually after following every piece of advice I finally found a way of obtaining clear images and presenting it like a real e book. I even test ran a few pages on my mobile and they seemed to work fine, unfortunately when I loaded up the whole book I still kept getting error messages. This may be due to the images in The HPM pumping the size of the book up too much.
So now it's on to the next step of getting the book registered and uploaded for sale. Surely this bit can't be hard?.....
Doh!!
The ebook rabbit hole gets deeper and deeper - Somewhere along the was VAT has been applied to ebooks and anybody who wishes to sell them through the appropriate channels has to be registered for VAT. This isn't a major problem, but it is still another delay. In addition to this there are several other hoops we have to jump through to register the e-book with Nielsen Book Data. Again this is going to take time but on the plus side - every book that gets sold will get counted giving our humble publishing company more credibility.
With the HPM out of the way, I can start the ebook process for the subsequent translations and Be Careful Ethel.
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