Caffeine in book form[at].POSTED JAN 12, 2010

Three months after Caffeine's original release , in "Printer Friendly" and "Text Only" versions, it is now available as a proper e-book. For now I'm calling it the "Novel Format." If anyone has a better name, please pass it on.

I originally delayed this version because I didn't know what to do for graphics. I was about to leave on vacation and was unwilling to wait three weeks to get it out on the internet, so since the Printer and Text formats would be simpler to create, I just went ahead with those. By the end of vacation, Caffeine had been entered into Marcher Lord Select's 2009 Premise Contest , so it was delayed again, just to keep complications to a minimum in the event that I won (the preparations for version 28 of this website gleefully snatched up the recovered free time).

Last week, I decided that the simpler Printer-Friendly graphics worked well and ended up adapting them to the Novel Format, for which I selected "B Format" paperback size (5.12" x 7.8"). What ideas I did have for fancy graphics would fall apart, anyway, when I realized that none of the chapter openings, which were each supposed to fit on one page, did.

So, there you go. Caffine's three main formats are posted under the same Creative Commons license , and I will be working on getting them posted wherever free e-books are found. I will also try to port the text-only version to various e-book formats (probably not as many as Cory Doctorow, though ). Please note that, being on a CC license, Caffeine can be ported to anything by anybody, so if I don't post it somewhere you think people would find it, be my guest. (and Thank You)

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