Little Innovation Book Finished

April 06, 2010

Little Innovation Book Finished

Over the Easter break, I finished uploading the whole of Little Innovation Book to the web. The whole is about 100 pages printed, so its an easy read that can be done in a day or so. I've also completed preparing the ePub version, which is available for download now if you have an ebook reader (like a Kindle or an iPad, or appropriate software), and there'll be properly published versions available from the site and Amazon within the week.

To those of you who who tipped, or bought individual chapters, or helped otherwise, your free downloads have already been sent to you. I'll continue to post updates here on the progress of the book from time to time.

6 Apr 2010 06:43:26 | Innovation, James A Gardner, Little Innovation Book

4 Comments

Hi James

The link to http://bankervision.typepad.com/bankervision/2010/04/www.littleinnovationbook.com just appears to load a blank page. I'm using Firefox on Win XP.

(the reason might be that the ending is *.com, not *.html. Just a guess..)

Posted by: Joe Bloggs | April 07, 2010 at 10:05 AM

Oh - thanks for pointing that out. I'm using a new blog editor - clearly I have a few settings to fix.

Really appreciate your feedback.

Posted by: James Gardner | April 07, 2010 at 10:27 AM

Hi James, I bought the epub version to read on my Kindle before I realised that the Kindle doesn't support epub! What a berk, etc.

However! A quick google later and I came across http://calibre-ebook.com/ which is a cross platform, open source tool for converting ebook files. It was a quick job to convert the epub to a .mobi and I was away. Formatting isn't perfect, but it certainly isn't bad.

I've now started to use Calibre to convert a load of PDF white papers, reports and so on to .mobi for easy reading on the Kindle. Thanks for inadvertently making me do this!

Posted by: Dave Briggs | April 15, 2010 at 12:39 AM

Re: TypePad: [BankerVision] Dave Briggs submitted a comment on "Little Innovation Book Finished"

Oh – thanks for pointing that out. I’ve amended the site appropriately. I’ve also sent you the print-ready PDF version that you can load on your Kindle.

Posted by: James Gardner | April 15, 2010 at 05:48 AM

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