{"id":17734,"date":"2020-10-30T00:23:40","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T00:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/?p=17734"},"modified":"2020-10-30T00:27:42","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T00:27:42","slug":"libra-shrugged-has-been-uploaded-to-the-bookstores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2020\/10\/30\/libra-shrugged-has-been-uploaded-to-the-bookstores\/","title":{"rendered":"Libra Shrugged has been uploaded to the bookstores!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have had an arse of a day, or perhaps several arses. A wealth of buttcoins.<\/p>\n<p>ePub is a cursed format. This is particularly the case when you&#8217;re caught between:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the author of Calibre, who thinks epubcheck is broken nonsense that doesn&#8217;t meet the ePub spec and takes literally years to fix bugs, and he&#8217;s completely correct on this;<\/li>\n<li>the Apple Books store, which insists your ePub passes epubcheck anyway.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[<em><a href=\"https:\/\/calibre-ebook.com\/\">Calibre<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/validator.idpf.org\/\">epubcheck<\/a><\/em>]<\/p>\n<p>So I spent yesterday and today generating an ePub, then editing the XHTML by hand. If you ever have to do this, you know you&#8217;re living your life wrong.<\/p>\n<p>But, I made it through \u2014 and the ebook has been queued in the Amazon, Draft2Digital and Smashwords stores, and the paperback on Amazon!<\/p>\n<p>(TO DO: get the PDF onto the Google Books store.)<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a $5-a-month patron, you have the ePub in your email right now. THREE DAYS EARLY.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a $20-a-month patron, you should make sure your shipping address on Patreon is up to date, okay.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/davidgerard\"><em>click the Patreon link, you know you want to<\/em><\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a good book. You thought Facebook were hubristic Silicon Valley tech bros \u2014 but you had no idea of the <em>sheer depths<\/em> of their techbro Silly Valley inanity.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, my true and loyal assistant Inch the Inchworm and I are having a glass of Writer&#8217;s Friend. We&#8217;ve earnt it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2020\/03\/20\/news-numbers-go-down-makerdao-but-mostly-coronavirus\/inch\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15977\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-15977\" src=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/inch.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/inch.jpg 675w, https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/inch-241x300.jpg 241w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<br><br><div align=\"center\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bePatron?u=8420236\"><img src=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/become_a_patron_button.svg\" alt=\"Become a Patron!\" title=\"Become a Patron!\" width=217 height=51><\/a><br><p style=\"align:center;\" class=\"patreon-badge\"><i>Your subscriptions keep this site going. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bePatron?u=8420236\">Sign up today!<\/a><\/i><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just saying, if you were a $5 Patron you could be reading it now &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2027,2011,51],"class_list":["post-17734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-calibre","tag-libra-shrugged","tag-self-publishing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/inch-helping-with-the-book-header.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17734"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17743,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17734\/revisions\/17743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}