Anyone out there have an iPhone?

[WRJames]

I've been bugging Terrie, the lovely publisher at Club Lighthouse Publishing, with the idea that we might boost sales if we offered an "iPhone friendly" format. Apparently iPhones run pdf files, so I thought if we could format for a really small page size -- that might work.

But -- it would be nice to be able test this out. Only problem -- no iPhone. Anyone out there want to be our alpha test?

 

[Lauren Hynde]

You can try this: iPhoney

 

[Liar]

I've seen E-books formatted for handhelds. I can't remember the specifics, but i think they were in PDF format. Could be a good idea to not limit it to just iPhones though. They are not THAT common yet, and it would be neat to see it be readable on other systems too, like Blackberry or Windows Mobile devices, that alspo have e-book and pdf readers.

Here are some common models:

iPhone screen size:
320 x 480

Palm screen sizes:
320 x 320
320 x 480

Different Win Mobile screen sizes:
480 x 640 (rare, but oh so nice to look at)
320 x 240 (so same width as iphone but shorter)
240 x 320
240 x 240


I suggest going to making it readable at 240 pixles' width, so that as mant as possible can read em. In the other direction, you can always scroll.


Read up on ebooks for handhelds here:
http://aalbc.com/writers/ebooks/Allaboutebooks.htm

 

[WRJames]

I've seen E-books formatted for handhelds. I can't remember the specifics, but i think they were in PDF format. Could be a good idea to not limit it to just iPhones though. They are not THAT common yet, and it would be neat to see it be readable on other systems too, like Blackberry or Windows Mobile devices, that alspo have e-book and pdf readers.

Here are some common models:

iPhone screen size:
320 x 480

Palm screen sizes:
320 x 320
320 x 480

Different Win Mobile screen sizes:
480 x 640 (rare, but oh so nice to look at)
320 x 240 (so same width as iphone but shorter)
240 x 320
240 x 240


I suggest going to making it readable at 240 pixles' width, so that as mant as possible can read em. In the other direction, you can always scroll.


Read up on ebooks for handhelds here:
http://aalbc.com/writers/ebooks/Allaboutebooks.htm

There is a Mobipocket solution for the other handhelds. So far (although it could happen any moment) Mobipocket does not seem to have an iPhone solution. Actually. though, even though the resolution on an iPhone screen may be 320 by 480 -- those must be tiny little pixels, because the screen itself is only 3 inches by 2 inches. So what I'm thinking about is formatting for a paper size of a little less than those dimensions, so that a 12 point font can be viewed "real size" on the iPhone.