Someone has bought "The College of Sci Fi Knowledge Quiz Book!"

Just one person so far, so while it has made me happy...I'd be happier if more people bought it.

The book has been available for about 3 days, the description info just showed up today. I find that so annoying. The same thing happens with blogs, and it just makes no sense. Once it's avaiable for sale, why isn't the description there automatically. What is it about the submission system that makes half of the info show up 2 days later than the first half of the info?

Anyway, more on its publication.

This is actually the second version of The College of Sci Fi Knowledge that I had published. When I uploaded the first version, I went entirely by what the book looked like on my computer screen, and it was fine. When I uploaded it and checked the preview, it was all hosed up. But I didn't believe my eyes. I thought that the preview version was hosed up. So I published it.

Then, a couple of days later, when it became avaiable for sale, I bought it and looked at it and the problems were there. There were blank pages, and questions showed up after photos, when I'd put page breaks between photos and questions just so that wouldn't happen.

So I went back to the master in word. It looked fine. So I figured, well, maybe if I convert it using MobiPocket, that will take care of the problem.

So I spent a couple of hours working with MobiPocket, with no luck. MobiPocket converts your document into HTML, and you're supposed to be able to have photos in there as well, but for the life of me I could not get those photos to show up.

So I went back to my master in Word and started pressing the "delete" key before and after various photos and questions where, in the book, it showed blank pages or no page breaks. And sure enough, the delete key got rid of the extra spaces (I could tell this because even though I hit delete, the page text didnt' go up to the previous page. So after I putzed around, I got out all the extra spaces that weren't visible but were there!, and then re-uploaded the text.

MobiPocket is therefore no good for using photos - as far as I can see, but when it comes to text, it does make the text look better. So when I do books that are strictly text, I'll be using it.

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