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The official blog of CinnamonTeal Design and Publishing, and of The Dogears Bookshop.

Far From the Madding Crowd

The official blog of CinnamonTeal Design and Publishing, and of The Dogears Bookshop.

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Tutorial-Converting Ebook from ePub to mobi using KindleGen (Linux)

Posted on February 7, 2018June 28, 2018

Now This is a tutorial for all those who want to convert their ebook (eg. from .epub format to .mobi  format ). I will be using the KindleGen software for the conversion This conversion is necessary if the ebooks are to be used on the Kindle devices. Lets get started…

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Choosing an e-reader

Posted on December 29, 2014

Okay, so you have purchased an e-book, paid for it and see it land in your inbox. What do you do next and how does one proceed to get the best out of this new beast? Ebooks are read using one of two methods: a) using a dedicated e-reader and…

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A Whole Different Beast

Posted on May 14, 2013May 14, 2013

-Percy Parry ‘The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book’. –Northrop Frye Considering that this statement was made with printed books in mind, will it still remain uncontested with the dawn of eBooks in the recent years? Comparing a book with an eBook is like…

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eBooks in plain HTML

Posted on May 1, 2013May 1, 2013

Over the years, there has been much debate on the appropriate format that eBooks should have. The eBook format a buyer of eBooks chooses will often depend on the reading device that buyer has, on whether he/she wishes to have the purchase synced to more than one device and the buyer’s…

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Losing sleep over ebook pricing

Posted on December 13, 2012

We had discussed e-book pricing earlier and it seems like months later, there isn’t much clarity on how to price e-books, or having priced them, whether to offer a discount. I recently came across this infographic which reflected one experiment in ebook pricing. So while it isn’t a snapshot of the industry it…

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E-books in Hindi!

Posted on October 20, 2012October 22, 2012

The development of e-books in Indian languages is a road fraught with challenges. These challenges include the usage of appropriate fonts and the ability of the reading device to accurately render the text legible. After working at it for some months now, we were able to develop an e-book in…

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dogearsetc.com will soon sell e-books

Posted on July 3, 2012July 3, 2012

In a couple of months from now, we will be launching our own e-book development and distribution service via dogearsetc.com and cinnamonteal.in. While the technical aspects of this service are ready, a few loose ends to be tied and we will be ready to go. Although e-book development and sales…

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At What Price?

Posted on April 8, 2012April 8, 2012

As Indian publishers gradually take to eBooks, they will have to contend with the question of how these eBooks should be priced. In the mature markets of the West, there is still no consensus on this issue. Amazon prices its books starting at $1.99 and going up to $9.99 but…

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More eBook Hype

Posted on March 7, 2012March 8, 2012

We’ve just got back from the World Book Fair in Delhi. This time around we were more perceptive to the environment and learnt a few things during the 9 days we spent there. But more on that later. However, if there was one aspect of the fair that could not…

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eBooks: Digital Immigrants vs Digital Natives and the Impermanence Debate

Posted on February 9, 2012March 20, 2012

by K. Venkatesh How much have you shifted online? Do you pay your bills online? Has it got to do anything with eBooks? Probably yes and probably no. In 2001, Marc Prensky proposed the terms “digital natives” and “digital immigrants.” Those born after the introduction of digital technology are digital…

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Far From the Madding Crowd is the blog of CinnamonTeal Print and Publishing, and of The Dogears Bookshop, the first a self-publishing service, the second a physical bookshop, located in Goa (India). Our blogs cover topics mostly related to books, their production and sale, as also to the joyous topic of reading. wehave been in the book business since 2006, and we hope to share our observations of the Indian publishing industry with you.

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