LOVE IN DARK SETTINGS PRESS FAQ

Love in Dark Settings Press publishes e-books by Dusk Peterson in the following genres: suspenseful fantasy, historical fantasy, science fiction, friendship fiction, heterosexual romance, gay fiction, and various forms of nonfiction.

To receive notice of e-book publications and free fiction, subscribe to Dusk Peterson's e-mail list or blog.

Updated November 2012.

Sections below:

¶ Which e-bookstores and countries are your e-books available in?

¶ Do your e-books have Digital Rights Management (DRM)?

¶ How do I read ePub e-books?

¶ How do I unzip an e-book?

¶ Which accessible formats are available for the disabled?

¶ Do I have to read the rest of the series to understand a story that occurs in the middle of it?

¶ May I make fan works? May I make derivative works? May I share your e-books with other people?

Which e-bookstores and countries are your e-books available in?

The links below lead directly to Dusk Peterson's e-books at those stores.

PREFERRED E-BOOKSTORES

These e-bookstores offers Dusk Peterson the best cut of the profits.

Gumroad (international). DRM-free e-books: HTML and PDF.

Smashwords (international). DRM-free multiformat e-books: Mobipocket/Kindle, ePub, PDF, RTF, LRF, Palm Doc, and plain text. (The plain text edition has some formatting quirks.) Smashwords e-books can also be downloaded via these iPhone/iPad apps: Tomes and Stanza.

OTHER E-BOOKSTORES

Amazon Kindle (Deutschland). DRM-free Kindle e-books.

Amazon Kindle (Espagne). DRM-free Kindle e-books.

Amazon Kindle (France). DRM-free Kindle e-books.

Amazon Kindle (Italia). DRM-free Kindle e-books.

Amazon Kindle (Nippon). DRM-free Kindle e-books.

Amazon Kindle (UK). DRM-free Kindle e-books.

Amazon Kindle (US). DRM-free Kindle e-books.

Angus & Roberson (Australia). ePub e-books.

Apple iBooks (various countries). ePub e-books.

Barnes & Noble (US). ePub e-books. DRM-free from November 2012 onwards.

Borders (Australia). ePub e-books.

Diesel (US). ePub e-books.

Indigo/Chapters (Canada). ePub e-books.

Kobo (international). ePub e-books.

Sony (US). ePub e-books.

WH Smith (UK). ePub e-books.

Whitcoulls (New Zealand). ePub e-books.

Do your e-books have Digital Rights Management (DRM)?

All Love in Dark Settings Press e-books sold at Gumroad, Smashwords, Barnes & Noble (after November 2012), and Amazon are DRM-free. You can read them, without restriction, on any device that reads the particular format you've bought. Some other retailers may apply DRM to the e-books; Love in Dark Settings Press has no control over this.

How do I read ePub e-books?

There are many ways by which to read ePub e-books. Some methods are easy as reading Web pages.

METHOD #1: Read on the Web

Read the ePub e-book online through the free Bookworm online e-reader.

METHOD #2: Read through Firefox

Read the ePub e-book in your Firefox Web browser, either online or offline, through the free Firefox add-on EPUBReader.

METHOD #3: Unzip the HTML files

An ePub e-book is simply a zipped set of HTML files, with a few extra files added. If you have an upzipping program, you can unzip the ePub e-book in order to read the HTML files directly.

In Windows, the easy way to do this is to change the end of the file name from .epub to .zip. After that, click on the file name, and any unzipping software you have on your computer will begin the process of unzipping. Then extract all the files into a new folder. (See also How do I unzip an e-book?)

Alternatively, right-click on the ePub file, choose "Open with," and choose your unzipping program. Then extract all the files into a new folder.

METHOD #4: Convert to other formats

The free e-reader Calibre will convert the ePub e-book into many formats. Some of these conversions may work better than the others.

The free e-reader Stanza (which is in a desktop version for PC or Mac) will convert the ePub e-book into these formats. Some of these conversions may work better than the others.

METHOD #5: Read on your mobile device or e-reader device

Many mobile devices and e-reader devices will read ePub e-books – for example, you can read ePub e-books on an iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad through the free iBooks app or through the free Stanza app.

METHOD #6: Read on your computer

Some free e-reader software for Windows, Mac, and Linux will read ePub e-books.

How do I unzip an e-book?

Most Love in Dark Settings Press e-books do not need to be unzipped. However, the HTML e-books may need to be unzipped.

A zipped file is simply a way of compressing a group of files so that they can be downloaded more quickly. In order to open a zipped e-book, first download the zipped file to your hard drive. Go to the directory to which you downloaded the file. (In Windows, you can do this through My Computer or Windows Explorer.) Most recently manufactured computers will automatically unzip a zipped file if you double-click on the file name. If that doesn't work, you can try these unzipping programs.

Free: 7-Zip (Windows) or Unarchiver (Mac).

Popular: WinZip (Windows) or Stuffit (Mac).

How to open a zipped file in Windows without an unzipping program.

When you double-click on the zipped file, the unzipping program may automatically extract all of the files into a folder. If the unzipping program instead shows you a list of files, then select all of the files that the unzipping program shows. (You can select all the files by typing Control-A in Windows.) Extract the files into an empty folder.

In order to start reading the e-book, click on the HTML file. The image files will automatically show up as part of the HTML file.

Which accessible formats are available for the disabled?

The accessible formats are as follows:

DAISY – The DAISY edition is available free from Bookshare.org. You do not need to be a member of Bookshare.org to download the edition, since it is covered under a Creative Commons license.

Electronic braille – Also called Web-braille. The electronic braille edition is available free from Bookshare.org. You do not need to be a member of Bookshare.org to download the edition, since it is covered under a Creative Commons license. The edition is in Grade 2 North American English braille (also called contracted braille).

Embossed braille – The embossed braille edition is available for a fee that covers the cost of embossing. You do not need to be a member of Bookshare.org to purchase this edition. The embossed braille edition is in Grade 2 North American English braille (also called contracted braille). More information from Bookshare.org about how to order embossed braille editions.

Currently, the following e-book is available in braille and DAISY:

For adults and teenagers: Bard of Pain (free braille and DAISY editions).

The text of the accessible edition is identical to the e-book edition released to the general public, aside from minor formatting changes and information on accessibility. Note that online editions are also accessible to the disabled, as are the ePub e-books. Booktrailer videos for the books are accessible to the deaf, but not to the blind, since they feature captions rather than spoken narratives.

Accessible editions, online editions, and e-book editions are entirely flush left; that is, the texts, including the titles, start on the left-hand side of the page. In addition, centered markers showing scene breaks are presented in a form that can be read aloud by screen readers. In the accessible editions, the scene-break markers take the following form:

o--o--o

In the online editions and e-book editions, the scene-break markers take the following form:

o—o—o

If you have problems downloading or reading any of the formats, please e-mail Dusk Peterson.

Do I have to read the rest of the series to understand a story that occurs in the middle of it?

No.

Most of the stories in series are designed so that you don't need to have knowledge of what came before; any information you need is included within the story itself.

In a very few cases, a summary of previous events will be included at the beginning of the story. This is written in as entertaining a manner as possible, to prevent you from falling asleep during the summary.

A lot of these stories were written out of order, so there's no harm in you reading them out of order. However, you should be aware that later stories in a series often contain major spoilers for earlier stories.

May I make fan works? May I make derivative works? May I share your e-books with other people?

"Yes" to fan works; "maybe" to derivative works and sharing. For details, see the policies on copyright, sharing, derivative works, and fan works.

[ HOME ] [ E-mail ]

Authors Against DRM graphic by Nina Paley, courtesy of readersbillofrights.info. License: Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike.

This text, or a variation on it, was originally published at duskpeterson.com. Copyright © 2007-2012 Dusk Peterson. Some rights reserved. The text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0). You may freely print, post, e-mail, share, or otherwise distribute the text for noncommercial purposes, provided that you include this paragraph. The author's policies on derivative works and fan works are available online (duskpeterson.com/copyright.htm).