Updated September 2023
Ebook Development.
Contract ebook Development
As an ebook developer I convert supplied text or InDesign files into well-formed ebooks for publication, both fixed and reflowable, with a focus on accessibility.
Standard Ebooks
I currently sit as an editor at the Standard Ebooks project . What started as a sideline project producing open source, public domain ebooks has evolved into participating as a core contributor as the project gains steam. I currently produce 4–6 ebooks/year as well as act a reviewer for others’ projects.
The process
By taking existing open-source transcriptions from sources like Gutenberg.org etc. that are in the public domain, Standard Ebooks’ aim is to produce quality editions through the process of applying thoughtful typography, high-quality markup, editorial standards and a specialized style guide. The addition of current ebook semantic and web standards in the construction process then creates a more accessible and future proof document.
Using a series of custom tools the text is corrected and standardized, redesigned, proofread again and finally issued on the Standard Ebook website in multiple formats as Public Domain texts. The system allows regular maintenance and updates after publication by both the original producer and the community at large.
My Standard ebook titles
The Prisoner Of Zenda
Anthony Hope
The Airlords Of Han
Philip Francis Nowlan
Stand By For Mars
Carey Rockwell
Major Barbara
George Bernard Shaw
Six Characters In Search Of An Author
Luigi Pirandello
Pygmalion
George Bernard Shaw
Our American Cousin
Tom Taylor
Ghosts
Henrik Ibsen
The Second Mrs Tanqueray
Arthur W Pinero
The Tragical History Of Doctor Faustus
Christopher Marlowe
The Alchemist
Ben Jonson
Short Fiction
Mack Reynolds
Poetry
William Carlos Williams
The Merry Wives Of Windsor
William Shakespeare
Henry V
William Shakespeare
Jeeves Stories
P G Wodehouse
School Stories
P G Wodehouse
The Playboy Of The Western World
J M Synge
The Gods Of Mars
Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Hairy Ape
Eugene O’Neill
Ukridge Stories
P G Wodehouse
Green Meadow Stories
Thornton W. Burgess
Green Forest Stories
Thornton W. Burgess
The Way of the World
William Congreve
Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories
Oscar Wilde
Children's Stories
Oscar Wilde
The Duchess of Malfi
John Webster
Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
The School for Scandal
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Women and Economics
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Life of Buffalo Bill
William F. Cody
The Life of Olaudah Equiano
Olaudah Equiano
Short Fiction
P G Wodehouse
Tartuffe
Molière
The Jew of Malta
Christopher Marlowe
The Country Wife
William Wycherley
Dangerous Liaisons (Les Liaisons dangereuses)
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Golf Stories
P G Wodehouse
She Stoops to Conquer
Oliver Goldsmith
The Conscious Lovers
Richard Steel
To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
Elmer Gantry
Sinclair Lewis
Orlando
Virginia Woolf