Trillium Classics just published our first book, Pride and Prejudice! It's my favorite book, and I think it's the favorite book of a lot of readers, around the world. It's a great place to start developing what we call "Exquisitely Formatted" texts. In the Kindle Store, there are millions of public domain texts available, some for free, some for pennies, and some, curiously, costing a great deal more. As consumers demand everything in digital form (and really, why shouldn't we) book makers are struggling to make that digital form reflect the simultaneous demand for a pleasant, clear, familiar reading experience. That's why Trillium Classics focuses on some key features of normal books and integrates them into our e-books. These are, in no particular order:
- Smart quotes instead of straight quotes
- Table of Contents with preview of chapter
- Seemless paragraphing, with indentation instead of blank lines in between blocks of text
- First word of a chapter emboldened
- Title page
- Proper formatting for verse
- Special characters that display correctly, such as é, à, ç, £, etc.
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