How can I help?

[amberle-chan.livejournal.com]

Hi,

I've only found out about this community today, and there are a couple of things I'm curious about.

I've owned a Kindle for more two-and-half years. I originally bought one so I wouldn't waste any more paper on printing fanfics. In all that time, I've converted tons of fics for "The Sentinel", "NCIS," and "Starsky & Hutch" fandoms using Mobipocket.

When I was reading through the list of fics available, I was a bit disappointed by the lack of ebooks in these fandoms. I was just wondering if you advertise in those communities at all to let the authors know that they can have their fics converted to ebooks so people can read them on their readers?

I was also wondering if there was any way I can help get the fanfics I've converted onto the site.

Thanks!

P.S. Sorry about the tags; I wasn't sure which ones I should use.

Comments

p.s.

[amalthia]

The other option is if you let me know what stories you really loved I'd also be willing to contact the authors and ask permission. :) So far I haven't gotten any specific requests so I've just been adding what interests me.

Re: p.s.

[amberle-chan.livejournal.com]

I thought I could perhaps help with supplying .mobi files of stories I've already converted (at least 100), but what you wrote above does sound complicated.

There are lists of authors' names at sentinel fic find (http://community.livejournal.com/sentinelficfind/) and ncis fic find (http://community.livejournal.com/ncisficfind/), most with links to their websites.

I've got to say that I do wish fan fic authors were more aware that having their stories archived in one file would be easier on those with ereaders. Copying and pasting multi-chaptered/multi-file stories into one file is a pain!

Re: p.s.

[amalthia]

I think authors are becoming more aware because more fan fiction readers and other fan fiction authors are now reading on Kindles and other devices. :)

Um, I was actually hoping you'd send me exact story links...Like your top five stories for each fandom. And the story would have be over 20k words long. I used to try adding shorter stories but now I don't bother because I still have a backlog of new fics to add to the archive from authors that have already given permission.

I'm trying to think of an easier way to track author permissions and requests as well as an easier way to coordinate with other admins on the site. But I'm at a loss as to how to make this less complicated. Though I think most people are familiar with uploading fics to efiction archives. What's challenging is finding people who know how to convert, use FTP, and know how to use efiction.

The reason I think I'm going to have to be firm on how stories appear on the archive is because now that the A03 has the ability to export stories into HTML/EPUB/and MOBI the only thing that'll set the stories on the Ebook Library apart from those stories is the artwork embedded and that I indent paragraphs instead of leaving a blank space between paragraphs.

I think at some point the Ebook Library will no longer be as used because if more authors post to the A03 archive and once they have user preferences implemented so people can choose how the stories look then the Ebook Library will be less needed.

Re: p.s.

[taylorgibbs.livejournal.com]

Maybe you could (for now) put the stories you've transferred online in a place like Megaupload or something like that. You could then advertise on the various LJs. I know I'd love more fanfic for my Kindle. I read mostly NCIS, but would love to read more Sentinel as well.

Someone uploaded a bunch of NCIS PDFs recently and they were very well received.