Substitution for URL in Print Only Documents

[Peter Bates]

I need opinions on whether people think this is a good idea or not.

I'll probably have several URL links in my ebook version of an upcoming Kindle book.

For the Print Only version, I thought of generating scannable QR codes for these links, then inserting them as conditional footnotes, substitutions for URLs, so to speak. That way people can still access them by scanning them with a phone while reading the print version.

Has anyone ever done this before with any success?

[Antonio Costanzo]

I have heard in my publishing house talking about this for a book but it was never done. I think it was because people working on that project hadn’t all informatic skills for doing it rather then they deemed the idea being unsuccessful.

[Julian Smart]

Sounds like an excellent idea! I occasionally generate QR codes which I used to do via web sites, but the Affinity suite (highly recommended) now has it built in. There shouldn't be any technical obstacles to adding these images conditionally to Jutoh. They could perhaps be in a table at the back to save space, though this would mean that Jutoh footnotes/endnotes would have to link to the images, rather than contain them.

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[Christine Keleny]

I have put a QR quote in a print book that links to an author's website.

The thing you have to be careful of is competing companies don't like specific book sale links for the other companies in their ebooks (e.g. amazon doesn't want draft2digital ebook purchase links in their ebooks). D2d does offer a universal link, so you might want to look into that. If you google Books2read you'll find it.

Christine Keleny

CKBooks Publishing

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[Mark Lee]

I got the impression that the original post sought a solution to links to references in the text rather than to books on sale.

Regards,
Mark.
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