About/Contact Paul

Paul with Some of the Family
Paul Salvette was raised in the Detroit, Michigan, area of the United States of America. Paul completed a Bachelors Degree in Chemical Engineering at the University of California - Los Angeles in 2002. Shortly after finishing college, Paul joined the United States Navy as a submarine officer and served in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii aboard the USS Honolulu (SSN 718) from 2004–7, and on the staff of General David Petraeus in Iraq from 2007–8.

Recognizing the surge in popularity of eBooks, Paul published his novella America Goes On at the Amazon Kindle Store in 2011. Dismayed by the lack of quality in the design and layout of this new technology, Paul wrote a technical guide to help small presses and self-publishers professionally package their eBooks. Following this, he decided to found an entire company dedicated to eBook technology—BB eBooks.

Paul is married to Boonyalisa Salvette, and they split their time between Bangkok, Thailand and the Eastern Seaboard. They enjoy spending time with their three boys and baby daughter, Monica.

Paul can be reached by email at  Paul Salvette Email.
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8 comments:

Anonymous said...

You should take this down. It's outdated

Paul Salvette said...

Thank you. Just updated.

Angela Y said...

Hi Paul,

I just purchased your new ebook 'The eBook Design and Development Guide' and wonder if I can have the PDF version too? How to get it? Thanks.

Angie

Paul Salvette said...

Thanks Angela. Please send an email with the secret password in the Appendix to my email paul (at) beebee (dot) asia. Thanks so much.

Anonymous said...

Hey Paul - I bought your eBook design Guide. Great work! Thank you so much for your help! You're awesome!

~J

Paul Salvette said...

Thank you, J. I hope the guide is useful.

Yogurt said...

Was looking at trying to add animated GIF's to an eBook but there seems to be mixed opinions if this is possible or not. What do you think and if it is possible do you have any suggestions on how to do it?

Also, what is your opinion of some of the automated tools like Jutoh and Sigil? Are they getting good enough yet that you would think about using them for an eBook project?

I purchased your Design Guide eBook and am enjoying it very much. A lot of information packed in there. Thanks so much for all the effort that went into it!!

-Bob

Paul Salvette said...

Thanks, Bob. Glad my book was useful for you. We've never tried animated gifs, but they should probably get embedded like regular gifs to see if they can work. The rendering will probably differ from platform to platform. For Jutoh and Sigil, we don't use them in our shop, but they may be of interest to some folks. We generally avoid them because we want 100% control over the production process.