Temporary Newton Library http://www.stillnewt.org/library Submission Guideline April 7th 2005 All submissions to the Temporary Newton Library are welcome -- and even more so, if they comply with the following recommendations: 1. eBooks-Styling -- someone invested great effort in writing the text you are turning into an eBook. When you do this, pay respect to this effort by making your edition oof this work look as good as possible. Well-made editions honor the author and please the reader (and the reader's eyes!). Below some valuable pointers -- 1.1 Format your whole text in 12 pt font (preferably Geneva) for good readability. NEVER use less than 12 pt! 1.2 Create a nice-looking title-page in your eBook which contains the title, name of the author, the date the book was originally published, if available who created the eText, the creator of this Newton eBook edition (= you, lucky child!), and the country and year your eBook edition was created. Font sized at least 14 pt, font style bold. 1.3 Fit your book out with (a) pagebreaks at the end of chapters, (b) bold and centered chapter headings, (c) create a Newton-table of contents from these headings. 1.4 Give your eBook a telling title. 1.5 There are 8 formats than you can produce with Apple's Newton Press; it is good policy to create at least MP2k Portrait, Classic, Universal and eMate Landscape -- these are the formats that are most used in Newtonia for reading eBooks. It is even more polite if you also produce the other 4 formats (MP2k Landscape, MP 2k UP, eMate Portrait, eMate 2 UP) to make comfortable reading of your title possible to those who prefer these formats. 1.6 Give the Newton-packages you create from your book project telling names that reveal the format they're in: YourBookTitleHere_Universal.pkg YourBookTitleHere_Classic.pkg YourBookTitleHere_MP2kPortrait.pkg YourBookTitleHere_MP2kLandscape.pkg YourBookTitleHere_MP2k2UP.pkg YourBookTitleHere_eMatePortrait.pkg YourBookTitleHere_eMateLandscape.pkg YourBookTitleHere_eMate2UP.pkg 2. Put these Newton packages in a directory with this naming syntax: "Author'slastname, Firstname - Your Book Title Here (OriginalPublicationDate)" and add these files -- 2.1 The original and unaltered text source (where available), e.g. Project Gutenberg-ZIP archive of etext. 2.2 An About.txt document shortly describing book and author (bibliographic information, author bio, why should anyone read this title -- what is it about). Good Practice: Check http://www.wikipedia.org for info on book and author and add it to About.txt and your Newton ebook (as Addendum after the actual ebook). 3. Send all submissions bundled in one .zip-Archive per title (zipped directory) to DJ_Vollkasko@gmx.net . 4. When the title is uploaded to the Temporary Newton Library, you will receive a link (URL) of where your submission has been filed by The Librarion. Please announce the newly released title with this link at NTLK (http://www.newtontalk.net) and amongst your Newtonian friends. *** Note: Compliance with these guidelines will speed up release of your submission considerably and will also improve the quality of the Temporary Newton Library's offering. ***