eBook Formats / Services?

[Scott H. Andrews]

I do want to release Beneath Ceaseless Skies in some way through eBook formats, so I'm interested in any opinions on peoples' preferred formats or eBook sites/services.

Several other SF/F magazines use Fictionwise.com (https://www.fictionwise.com/), which provides about a dozen different unencrypted formats, and those magazines charge $3-4 for 6-9 stories. I would bundle at least two issues (4 stories) or maybe four (8 stories) into each eBook and charge as little as possible, say $2 or $4.

Or I could release eBooks through the magazine's website here, but I would have to learn about perparing eBook formatting, which would be a distant third priority behind doing all the web fiction and audio podcasting.

Do any eBook readers out there have any opinions? On anything, including formats or eBook web services?

Thanks for any input; I appreciate it.

[Sarah Avery]

When I first started checking out the free e-books Baen gives away, I tried out several formats on my Palm and found that I far preferred Mobipocket over the alternatives. That's probably how I'd read BCS, if you made it available in that format, but I'm not picky about that kind of thing. Really, the aesthetic you're looking for is so much my cup of tea, I'd probably try to read BCS even if you released it on clay tablets in Cuneiform.

[Scott H. Andrews]

Really, the aesthetic you're looking for is so much my cup of tea, I'd probably try to read BCS even if you released it on clay tablets in Cuneiform.
Hahahahaha! I guarantee that I don't want to be writing it out that way, one little triangular depression at a time! :)

Mobipocket is one of the dozen or so formats that Fictionwise offers--they seem to cover a lot of bases, which is a main reason they look like a good option to me.

Thanks.

[Sarah Avery]

So I suppose sending my next submission in Cuneiform is right out?