{"id":903,"date":"2019-11-12T10:00:38","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T02:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.haguepublishing.com\/?p=903"},"modified":"2019-11-12T16:38:52","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T08:38:52","slug":"vignettes-and-ebooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haguepublishing.com\/blog\/vignettes-and-ebooks\/","title":{"rendered":"Vignettes and eBooks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

noun 1. <\/strong> a decorative design or small illustration used on the titlepage of a book, or at the beginning or end of a chapter. <\/em>Macquarie Dictionary Publishers, 2019 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I recently presented a session on The Well Crafted eBook<\/em> as part of a workshop on How To Publish an eBook<\/em> with Ken Vickery at the Bassendean Library. As part of my session I addressed the question of including Vignettes in an eBook. Vignettes can be obtained at a reasonable price from Shutterstock.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Or make your own as we did for Leonie Rogers’ Frontier Defiant<\/a><\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shanna and her two starcats<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The problem with including a picture in an eBook, however, is that it must be able to be viewed on a variety of screens: from phones, to tablets, to computers, as well as on eBook Readers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a result we have now standardised on the image required for the printed version (300 dpi) for the Title Page (which is 590 x 270 pixels). The image for Chapter Titles is half that size (ie 295 x 135). For printed books each image has to be separately set.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When including the vignette in an eBook the following specifications are used (unfortunately this is slightly more technical and requires a little more understanding of the html\/css interface\/. What we are defining however, is as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n