E-books in Second Life

[Ginger Shostakovich]

This seems to be the right category to ask. So - those of you who are creating e-books in Second Life, whether it be for a fashion catalogue or for text-only content, what kind of systems do you use? Last time I published in Second Life, all I had available were notecards and putting text on prims, but things have obviously progressed. I've been on the Marketplace and I've seen scrapbook makers and publishing systems from 0 to 2000 L$, and before I spend any money, is there one you would recommend? 

Many thanks!

[Alyona Su]

Book publishers have been in SL at least since 2006 (I've had them). Search Market Place for "magazine AND publish" (without quotes and with capitalization) for a long list of the current gadgets.

[Orwar]

   There are different approaches to it, the ones I've seen are notecards with text, HUDs with flippable pages or just prim/mesh books that give you a hyperlink to an external site with the book's contents. Personally I never understood why you'd want the book itself in SL, I did a periodical in notecards for a while and it felt as if the lack of formatting just made it feel clunky - as for general Internet publishing there's again a variety of options, from flippable 'virtual books' to the usual page by page format.

[Coffee Pancake]

If it's something worth actually reading .. then it needs to be in an ebook format so I can put it on my ebook reader and not melt my eyes trying to read it.

A NC, a Couple of paragraphs as a hook, and a download link to the file and link to calibre for those who don't have it.