Author Topic: EP Soundproof 1: November 2010  (Read 5573 times)

eytanz

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on: November 09, 2010, 10:32:30 AM
This is the first of our monthly magazines that will bring you the previous month’s Escape Pod stories and the best of the blog. We have been pushing to expand what Escape Pod does, adding an SF blog and distributing our stories via magazine format. We’re also becoming a pro market, and hope to keep paying our authors pro rates well into 2011 if the donations make it possible.

The rights are the same as in the audio — you are free to print, distribute, etc, these stories, as long as you don’t a) sell them, b) change them, or c) put your name on them. Otherwise, the more people that check out our stories, the better.

This month we bring to you two stories (as we’re on the cusp of stories that we own the epub rights to, and a handful of ones we do not): “Fuel” by Matthew S. Rotundo and “St. Darwin’s Spirituals” by D.K. Thompson.

We hope you enjoy this issue. We know that there are people out there who love to read but yet don’t like audio, and there are people out there who are hearing impaired. So Escape Pod is now in a Soundproof version, catering to more SF fans than ever. And please remember that we are completely donation driven, and if we want to keep paying authors the pro rates they deserve, we need your support. Please give, if you can.

Contents:
  • EP263: Fuel, By Matthew S. Rotundo
  • Comic Review: Superior, Written by Mark Millar By Alasdair Stuart
  • EP264: St. Darwin’s Spirituals, By D.K. Thompson
  • Book Review: I Shall Wear Midnight, By Terry Pratchett By Josh Roseman

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« Last Edit: December 02, 2010, 08:39:06 AM by eytanz »



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Reply #1 on: November 09, 2010, 06:21:31 PM
Oh man this is COOL!

If I wasn't already donating monthly, I'd donate monthly!

I'd like to hear my options, so I could weigh them, what do you say?
Five pounds?  Six pounds? Seven pounds?


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Reply #2 on: November 10, 2010, 02:01:26 AM
It is pretty cool...



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Reply #3 on: November 10, 2010, 05:41:21 PM
Very cool!
I use Stanza on the iPhone to read ePubs and it's telling me it can't download this due to DRM -- should that be happening?

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Reply #4 on: November 10, 2010, 09:50:03 PM
Very cool!
I use Stanza on the iPhone to read ePubs and it's telling me it can't download this due to DRM -- should that be happening?

It really should not. Let me download Stanza onto mine and test things tonight, there shouldn't be any DRM on it.

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Reply #5 on: November 11, 2010, 01:14:35 AM
Very cool!
I use Stanza on the iPhone to read ePubs and it's telling me it can't download this due to DRM -- should that be happening?

Can you tell me if it will open for you in iBooks?

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Reply #6 on: November 12, 2010, 04:48:48 PM
No, I don't have iBooks installed.

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Reply #7 on: November 12, 2010, 08:15:43 PM
It appears to be an issue with the fonts included in the ePub, and not the ePub itself, a fixed version should go up tonight or early tomorrow.

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