So as some of you may know by some of my posts of late, I recently decided to dust of an old novel and actually get it published. Blood, sweat and LibreOffice tears later, I've formatted it to spec... So my bestie, who has just also dusted off an old book of his published it (we "twin think") suggested I use Kindle Create for my final submission. I won't expand on why it's the best option, sufficed to say it is a massive advantage over DIY'ing it in ePub or doc(x) format.
So I find Kindle Create download page. "For PC or Mac" ("PC" vs "Mac"? Really, people still talk like that?). No Linux. WTF? They had a Linux eBook converter last I looked into doing this. Quick web search revealed they dropped -- yes dropped -- Linux support. So I tried WINE despite the app DB saying it would not work, and, well, it did not work.
Now if you know much about the underlying technology involved -- and most people today do, except "Generation Smartphone" -- you'll know this could have been developed cross-platform (or they could've just open sourced it, let other OS users port it). I would say supporting Linux is as important now as supporting Mac (and Mac users once faced this issue, too). ~5% of the desktop market in most countries with 15% in some (like India).
So... er why? It's like a deliberate kick in the face? It's worse than getting kicked out of games over anti-cheat BS because there is literally no sane, rational reason for Amazon to have made this move. They're literally telling authors, f*** you (ironically, Linux users are way less likely to publish AI-written books than Windows users -- because we're better, duh
-- which only makes it more insane).
So I find Kindle Create download page. "For PC or Mac" ("PC" vs "Mac"? Really, people still talk like that?). No Linux. WTF? They had a Linux eBook converter last I looked into doing this. Quick web search revealed they dropped -- yes dropped -- Linux support. So I tried WINE despite the app DB saying it would not work, and, well, it did not work.
Now if you know much about the underlying technology involved -- and most people today do, except "Generation Smartphone" -- you'll know this could have been developed cross-platform (or they could've just open sourced it, let other OS users port it). I would say supporting Linux is as important now as supporting Mac (and Mac users once faced this issue, too). ~5% of the desktop market in most countries with 15% in some (like India).
So... er why? It's like a deliberate kick in the face? It's worse than getting kicked out of games over anti-cheat BS because there is literally no sane, rational reason for Amazon to have made this move. They're literally telling authors, f*** you (ironically, Linux users are way less likely to publish AI-written books than Windows users -- because we're better, duh
