{"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":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:4830,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.newsweek.com\\\/id\\\/167581&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20100419121122\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.newsweek.com:80\\\/id\\\/167581&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-07 21:22:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 20:39:32&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 20:39:32&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:4831,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Epub#IDPF&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260307232318\\\/https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Epub&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Epub&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 20:39:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 20:39:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:4832,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.jedisaber.com\\\/eBooks\\\/tutorial.asp&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:4833,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.lexcycle.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20221118220410\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.lexcycle.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-07 21:22:28&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 03:59:02&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 03:59:02&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Over the course of the week, Newsweek has published a fascinating seven-part series called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/id\/167581\" title=\"Newsweek: Highlights: Newsweek's Special Election Project\">Secrets of the 2008 Campaign<\/a>, an &#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s not terribly difficult at all, at least as far as the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Epub#IDPF\" title=\"Wikipedia: Comparison of e-book formats: IDPF\">.epub<\/a> format goes. After some time with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jedisaber.com\/eBooks\/tutorial.asp\" title=\"Jedisaber: .epub eBooks Tutorial\">this tutorial<\/a> and a little bit of minor troubleshooting, I had it all set up.<\/p>\n<p>If you have an eBook reader that supports .epub files and would like to take a peek, <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/files\/2008\/11\/08\/Secretsofthe2008Campaign.epub\" title=\"Secrets of the 2008 Campaign (epub, 191kb)\">here it is<\/a>. It&#8217;s been working fine for me in both the desktop and iPhone versions of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lexcycle.com\/\" title=\"Lexcycle: Stanza: A Revolution in Reading\">Stanza<\/a>, but I can&#8217;t at this point vouch for any other eBook reader.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;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&#8217;s concession speech.<\/p>\n<p>Still, it was a fun exercise in figuring out eBooks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;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&#8217;s concession speech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2036,2042],"tags":[379,492,470,14,467,65],"class_list":["post-5006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-politics","tag-barack-obama","tag-joe-biden","tag-john-mccain","tag-politics","tag-sarah-palin","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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}]}}