Anna Karenina (Russian Novel)

I created an EPUB book containing Leo Tolstory's Anna Karenina in its original Russian language. It is not yet complete. Comments are welcome.

• Анна Каренина

Все счастливые семьи похожи друг на друга, каждая несчастливая семья несчастлива по-своему.

Все смешалось в доме Облонских. Жена узнала, что муж был в связи с бывшею в их доме француженкою-гувернанткой, и объявила мужу, что не может жить с ним в одном доме. Положение это продолжалось уже третий день и мучительно чувствовалось и самими супругами, и всеми членами семьи, и домочадцами. Все члены семьи и домочадцы чувствовали, что нет смысла в их сожительстве и что на каждом постоялом дворе случайно сошедшиеся люди более связаны между собой, чем они, члены семьи и домочадцы Облонских. Жена не выходила из своих комнат, мужа третий день не было дома. Дети бегали по всему дому, как потерянные; англичанка поссорилась с экономкой и написала записку приятельнице, прося приискать ей новое место; повар ушел еще вчера со двора, во время обеда; черная кухарка и кучер просили расчета.

Korean short story: Death of a Prostitute

Death of a Prostitute is a Korean short story about a young prostitute found dead on a street. The ebook is written in Korean and meant for testing Korean on a digital reader supporting EPUB format.

• Death of a Prostitute

Vietnamese Novel 'Thoi Xa Vang'

Thoi Xa Vang is a Vietnamese novel in EPUB format. It will work with Adobe Digital Editions, Nook and Sony digital reader.

• Thoi Xa Vang

Embedding Russian/Cyrillic/Unicode Fonts in EPUB books

I'd like to read Russian literature in its original language. So I downloaded Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and put it in my Nook.

1. The original format of the book was a Word document. I had to save it as text file and convert its character set from Windows Cyrillic (CP1251) to UTF-8 using Iconv.
   
   

   iconv -f CP1251 -t UTF-8 annakarenina.txt > annakarenina-u.txt

   
   
   
2. I opened the text file with Sigil, formatted it and saved it as EPUB file.
   
   
3. Put Unicode fonts in the EPUB file that have a cyrillic range. You can do so with 7-zip. I recommend Book Antiqua, MinionPro or DejaVu Serif.
   
   
   • antquab.ttf
   • antquabi.ttf
   • antquai.ttf
   • bkant.ttf
   
   
   
4. Edit content.opf so that it has references to the fonts:
   
   

   <item id="font.bold" href="fonts/antquab.ttf" media-type="application/x-font-truetype"/>
   
   <item id="font.bolditalic" href="fonts/antquabi.ttf" media-type="application/x-font-truetype"/>
   
   <item id="font.italic" href="fonts/antquai.ttf" media-type="application/x-font-truetype"/>
   
   <item id="font.regular" href="fonts/bkant.ttf" media-type="application/x-font-truetype"/>

   
   
5. Edit the stylesheet.
   
   

   @font-face {
     font-family: "Book Antiqua";
     font-weight: normal;
     font-style: normal;
     src: url(../fonts/bkant.ttf);
     }
     @font-face {
     font-family: "Book Antiqua";
     font-weight: normal;
     font-style: italic;
     src: url(../fonts/antquai.ttf);
     }
     @font-face {
     font-family: "Book Antiqua";
     font-weight: bold;
     font-style: normal;
     src: url(../fonts/antquab.ttf);
     }
     @font-face {
     font-family: "Book Antiqua";
     font-weight: bold;
     font-style: italic;
     src: url(../fonts/antquabi.ttf);
     }
     a {
       color: inherit;
       text-decoration: inherit;
       }
     em, i {
     font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;
     font-weight: normal;
     font-style: italic;
     }
     strong, b, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5 {
     font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;
     font-weight: bold;
     font-style: normal;
     }
     p {
     text-indent: 2em;
     margin-top: 0pt;
     margin-bottom: 0pt;
     }
     body {
     font-family: "Book Antiqua", serif;
     margin-left: 5pt;
     margin-right: 5pt;
     text-align: justify;
     }
     .sgc-1 {text-align: center}
     .sgc-2 {text-align: right}

   
   

To see how a Russian ebook might look on your Nook or any other reader, download and try my ebook Anna Karerina.

Creating Korean eBooks in EPUB format

As far as I know, there aren't a lot of Korean ebooks in EPUB format. However, if you have a Korean literature of any kind, you can create an EPUB file for viewing on a digital reader. Assuming that you have a Korean text file in KSC5601 or UHC character set, you should convert your text file into Unicode encoding. You can do so with iconv.

iconv -f UHC -t UTF-8 oldtext.txt > newtext.txt

Open the new Unicode-encoded text in Sigil, edit it and save it as an EPUB file. Now you should add Korean fonts into your EPUB file. I recommend the following fonts.

• H2GTRM.TTF
  
• H2GTRB.TTF

Then, edit content.opf in your EPUB file so that the manifest section contains the following:

<item id="h2gtrm.ttf" href="fonts/h2gtrm.ttf" media-type="application/x-font-truetype"/>
<item id="h2gtrb.ttf" href="fonts/h2gtrb.ttf" media-type="application/x-font-truetype"/>

Start Sigil again and open your EPUB file. Select the dual editing mode and insert the following CSS definitions into the HTML header.

  @font-face {
  font-family: HYGothic-Medium;
  font-weight: normal;
  font-style: normal;
  src: url(../fonts/h2gtrm.ttf);
  }
  @font-face {
  font-family: HYGothic-Bold;
  font-weight: bold;
  font-style: normal;
  src: url(../fonts/h2gtrb.ttf);
  }
  a {
    color: inherit;
    text-decoration: inherit;
    }
  em, i {
  font-family: HYGothic-Medium, sans-serif;
  font-weight: normal;
  font-style: italic;
  text-decoration: underline;
  }
  strong, b, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 {
  font-family: HYGothic-Bold, sans-serif;
  font-weight: bold;
  font-style: normal;
  }
  body {
  font-family: HYGothic-Medium, sans-serif;
  margin-left: 5pt;
  margin-right: 5pt;
  text-align: justify;
  }

Test your ebook with Adobe Digital Editions. It should display Korean correctly.

How to embed Unicode fonts in EPUB ebooks

I own a Barnes and Noble's Nook and recently had a trouble reading a Vietnamese novel on Nook. But I resolved the issue by hacking the EPUB ebook as explained below:

1. Get the Unicode fonts that you want for your ebook. The following fonts come with Adobe Reader and cover enough Unicode ranges.
   
   • MyriadPro-Bold.otf
     
   • MyriadPro-It.otf
     
   • MyriadPro-Regular.otf
   
   With 7-zip, put the Unicode fonts in your ebook.
   
2. Extract content.opf from your ebook and insert the following lines in the manifest section:
   

   <item href="MyriadPro-Bold.otf" id="embedded.font.bold" media-type="font/opentype"/>
   
   <item href="MyriadPro-It.otf" id="embedded.font.italic" media-type="font/opentype"/>
   
   <item href="MyriadPro-Regular.otf" id="embedded.font.regular" media-type="font/opentype"/>
   

   Put content.opt back into the ebook file.
   
3. Extract stylesheet.css from the ebook and append the following contents:
   

   @font-face {
   font-family: "Myriad Pro";
   font-weight: normal;
   font-style: normal;
   src: url(MyriadPro-Regular.otf);
   }
   @font-face {
   font-family: "Myriad Pro";
   font-weight: normal;
   font-style: italic;
   src: url(MyriadPro-It.otf);
   }
   @font-face {
   font-family: "Myriad Pro";
   font-weight: bold;
   font-style: normal;
   src: url(MyriadPro-Bold.otf);
   }
   a {
       color: inherit;
       text-decoration: inherit;
       }
   em, i {
   font-family: "Myriad Pro", sans-serif;
   font-weight: normal;
   font-style: italic;
   }
   strong, b, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5 {
   font-family: "Myriad Pro", sans-serif;
   font-weight: bold;
   font-style: normal;
   }
   body {
   font-family: "Myriad Pro", sans-serif;
       margin-left: 5pt;
       margin-right: 5pt;
       text-align: justify;
   }
   p {
     text-indent: 2em;
     margin-top: 0pt;
     margin-bottom: 0pt;
     }
   

   Put stylesheet back in your ebook.
   
4. Try and read your ebook with Adobe Digital Editions or your favorite ebook reader.

Accounting eBooks

Accounting is fundamental to business. Below are some books I found on the P2P network. Get them with an eDonkey client:

1. Management Accounting for Business Decisions - Drury, C.
   
2. Fundamental Accounting Principal
   
3. Financial Accounting Information for Decisions (2004) - McGraw Hill
   
4. The Portable MBA in Finance And Accounting, 3Ed - Wiley
   
5. Financial Accounting - McGraw Hill
   
6. Financial Accounting by Pearson
   
7. Accounting Information Book
   

Statistics eBooks

Statistics is becoming important in today's business. It is used to analyze data so that we can make predictions and better decisions. Many business courses require you to study statistics. Like many other reference books, statistics textbooks can be found in P2P networks. The following ebooks help you learn statistics and can be downloaded with eMule.

1. McGraw Hill - Statistics and Econometrics (Schaum's Outline)
   
2. A First Course in Business Statistics, 8th ed. (James T.McClave, P.George Benson, Terry Sincich)
   
3. Business Statistics Demystified
   
4. John Wiley And Sons Statistics For Dummies
   
5. Matrix Differential Calculus With Applications In Statistics And Econometrics (Wiley, 3Rd Edition, 2007)
   
6. Knalbunt - Handbook of Computational Statistics - 2004 [Springer]
   
7. Mathematical Statistics (1999)
   
8. Advanced Calculus With Applications In Statistics (A Khuri 2003, Wiley)
   
9. Matrix differential calculus with applications in statistics and econometrics 3e JAN R. MAGNUS (Wiley 2007 468s)
   
10. Regression Analysis by Example, 4th Ed (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics) - Samprit Chatterjee Ali S. Hadi (2008)
    

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Calculus eBooks

Like many other reference books, calculus textbooks can be found in P2P networks. The following ebooks help you learn calculus and can be downloaded with eMule.

1. Taylor Angus - Advanced Calculus - 3Rd Edition - [749] Pages - 1983 - Wiley
   
2. Thomas Calculus 11e
   
3. Thomas Calculus 11e [Solutions] indexed
   
4. Calculus 5th Edition - James Stewart solution
   
5. Calculus Concepts and Contexts 2nd Ed - James Stewart
   
6. Edwards, Harnold M. - Advanced Calculus. A Differential Forms Approach (1969)(T) (452s)
   
7. Calculus Workbook For Dummies 2005
   
8. Krantz S.G. Calculus demystified (MGH, 2003) (356s)
   
9. Schaum's Outline of Theory and Problems of Advanced Calculus
   
10. Schaums Calculus 5th ed.
    
11. Stewart - Calculus - Early Transcendentals 6e HQ (Thomson, 2008)
    
12. Stewart's Calculus, Early Transcendentals, Fifth Edition
    
13. Tom Apostol - Calculus vol.1 - One-variable Calculus, with an Introduction to Linear Algebra (1975)
    
14. Tom Apostol - Calculus Vol.2 - Multi-Variable Calculus and Linear Algebra with Applications to DifFerential Equations and Probability
    

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Outlook on eBook Business

I've been aware of ebooks since long ago. In fact, I was scouring the
Internet for ebooks of all sorts, including literature and technical
books years ago. I haven't been collecting ebooks for quite a while,
but when I checked recently for an economy textbook, I found tons of
ebooks, including various collegiate books. That's intellectual bonanza.



Anyway,
what I am trying to say is, is it reasonably feasible to make profits
from ebooks? Just take a look at all the publications and audio books
circulating in the IRC networks and sharing networks.



When
a publisher sends manuscripts of books in PDF form to a printing house,
some of these manuscripts get leaked to the Internet. Even if the
manuscripts are in encrypted PDF form, it's possible to break the encryption. Years back, there was one hacker who succeeded in breaking the encryption but got arrested by FBI (Poor guy, what about freedom of speech).



However,
if someone becomes successful in selling ebooks for reading on cell
phones or iPods, ebooks can possibly become a profitable trend.



Recent rampant success of Apple iPhone and its App Store
has opened opportunities for many entrepreneurs. I don't own an iPhone,
hence I don't know what's available in the iPhone App Store. But
piggybacking on iPhone madness, developing an ebook reader for iPhone
and making deals with publishers or even wanna-be writers might be a
good business idea.



Anyway, if you are into serious classic literature without much concern for modern recyclable literary garbages, I recommend Project Gutenberg. Gutenberg is a wonderful philanthropic repository of copyright-free literature.