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The Studies reveal that personal choice is defined by each person and varies considerably. 72 characters is the old schools typewriter format. According to Wikipedia this is often maintained out o...
Statista (The Statistics Portal) looks like it has some relevant ebooks revenue information (though not exactly what you are looking for). Unfortunately, you are forced to sign up for a premium acc...
That is not possible in any of kindle eBook formats. Amazon is stripping all html which is not supported as they stated it in Kindle Publishing Guidelines. Also you don't have access to any of devi...
You can definitely create your own eBook library by combining Calibre with other solutions to ensure your books, highlights and comments are reliably accessible online which would require a lot of ...
I don't believe there is any way that anyone outside of Amazon could truly answer this. The best anyone could hope for would be to guess or speculate, and that's not what this site is about. As fo...
Yes, it is possible and rather easy to do so. You start it with the connect/share button on the main toolbar, then selecting start content server; it can be configured from preferences > sharin...
There's a pretty lengthy write-up on HuffPo. Short version: For one week each year, Rita Toews, 61, a soft-spoken mother of two and grandmother of one, sits at the center of the ebook univers...
We gabbed about this today in writers' club. One problem with the exercise is you can fit many suppositions, any manner of supposition, to a piece of expression (a novel). (Rose colored glasses and...
ASCIIDoc is a nice compromise between bare bones (like markdown) and full featured (like tex). There are lots of examples online, but the basic idea is this: you write in plain text, using as-ob...
I think you should take a look at Sigil, a program for creating/editing epub-format ebooks. On the download page, there is an installer for Windows and an image for Mac. Sigil is open source and ...
If you are just interested in basic formatting, markdown is by far the simplest choice. You may write your text on any platform, and then converting it.
Oh soap, why must you be so slippery? You're great to clean the body or the hands, but this utility is much reduced if you, whenever used, just slip away. I'm not a native speaker of English,...
Not sure if this is what haikus are meant to sound like, but here goes: Blue and green planet Huge, yet so tiny in space A view from the moon
CW: animal abuse, animal death "Come on, Rosie!" It's those familiar words that mean it's time for my favorite activity: WALKIES. It's the same phrase that he's used almost every day for the past t...
If I'm reading correctly, the crux of your issue is this: Eris is a girl, she forms a romantic attachment to a boy, the reader assumes she's straight. Later, when she forms a romantic attachm...
Maybe. Or it could make it even worse. As writers we need to focus on the point and goal of the writing. - Why are we writing a piece, what is that piece's purpose, and how do the elements of tha...
Do Songs and Paintings have the same rules and protections as Books and Film for copying (into written form). Songs and paintings are protected under copyright laws, but it might be helpful ...
I thought one of the best discussions in film on a topic like this occurred in Jurassic Park, the "Sexism in Survival Situations" scene. In this scene, John Hammond and Ellie Saddler (forgive spel...
Go to a local university and speak with a writer in residence or a professor who is well-respected. Take creative writing courses and listen to the feedback. Join a writers group - but remember, b...
There are many places to get good feedback for your work. You said you wanted a professional to look over your work and in that case, if you plan on publishing, I would suggest hiring an editor. B...
Super Sentai (better known as Power Rangers in the West, though not the same show) recently had a season which started with 9 core members of the team, and ballooned to 12 by show's end (Rangers mi...
The problem with a lot of characters is a result of something we call in mathematics "combinatorial explosion". Eventually, if they are MAIN characters, the reader expects they will all get togeth...
In general, I would go with the minimum number of main characters you need. As a reader, it's difficult and distancing for me to keep track of many characters, and hard for me to care. I'm willin...
I am not a lawyer, but you really should not do this. Orson Scott Card (OSC) and any partners he has (publisher, movie studios) own "Ender", and you cannot profit from it in any way whatsoever. OSC...
No, absolutely not. Copyright owners have the exclusive right to produce derivative works based on their properties. Thus, using Ender himself as a character in your story without permission from ...
