Saturday, May 26, 2012

The Saga of Beowulf eBook Updates

The Land of Death & Shadow
The Land of Ice & Fire
The Complete Edition
New updated files for the three editions of The Saga of Beowulf have been uploaded to Amazon and Barnes & Noble, so if you've purchased any of these in the past you can now download the new versions. Each text has been revised to include correctly functioning Tables of Contents, including chapter title links back to the TOC for ease of reference, higher resolution images for interior illustrations, and embedded Norse Rune fonts for chapter headers and the Chapter 2 Rune bones sequence (be sure to turn on Publisher Defaults on the Nook to display the fonts correctly). In addition, the "Complete Edition" ebook now includes the Norse Rune Decoder and Author's Afterword originally included only at the end of Part Two. The text itself has received only minor editorial corrections.

Sony Reader, Kobo, and iBooks editions have not yet been updated, as these were uploaded via Smashwords, which only accepts Word docs and strips out all but the essential formatting. Supposedly they plan to start accepting ePubs and other formats as direct uploads without putting them through Meatgrinder (from which you get hamburger), but have yet to do so. I will eventually establish direct uploads to these retailers and forgo Smashwords altogether, and when I do I'll post the info here as soon as it's available.

UPDATED 5-31-2012 to include Nook font embedding.