{"id":5006,"date":"2008-11-08T13:32:37","date_gmt":"2008-11-08T21:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/11\/08\/secrets-of-the-2008-campaign-ebook\/"},"modified":"2022-03-07T09:49:19","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T17:49:19","slug":"secrets-of-the-2008-campaign-ebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/11\/08\/secrets-of-the-2008-campaign-ebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Secrets of the 2008 Campaign eBook"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the course of the week, Newsweek has published a fascinating seven-part series called Secrets of the 2008 Campaign<\/a>, an “in-depth look behind the scenes of the campaign, consisting of exclusive behind-the-scenes reporting from the McCain and Obama camps assembled by a special team of reporters who were granted year-long access on the condition that none of their findings appear until after Election Day.”<\/p>\n

Since I wanted to read the whole thing, but have also been experimenting with reading eBooks on my iPod Touch, I figured this was as good a time as any to play with seeing what it would take to create an eBook. As it turns out, it’s not terribly difficult at all, at least as far as the .epub<\/a> format goes. After some time with this tutorial<\/a> and a little bit of minor troubleshooting, I had it all set up.<\/p>\n

If you have an eBook reader that supports .epub files and would like to take a peek, here it is<\/a>. It’s been working fine for me in both the desktop and iPhone versions of Stanza<\/a>, but I can’t at this point vouch for any other eBook reader.<\/p>\n

Obviously, seeing as how the only thing keeping me from breaking copyright criminally (rather than simply flagrantly, which is were I stand now) is that I’m not charging for this, so should Newsweek decide to give me the smackdown, this will be disappearing faster than Sarah Palin leaving the stage after McCain’s concession speech.<\/p>\n

Still, it was a fun exercise in figuring out eBooks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Obviously, seeing as how the only thing keeping me from breaking copyright criminally (rather than simply fragrantly, which is were I stand now) is that I’m not charging for this, so should Newsweek decide to give me the smackdown, this will be disappearing faster than Sarah Palin leaving the stage after McCain’s concession speech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2036,2042],"tags":[379,492,470,14,467,65],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5006"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}