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Originally Posted by jbenny
One other reason to want the widespread adoption of the epub format. If someone wants to correct dashes and such, just unzip the epub and edit the XHTML source. Couldn't be easier.
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Actually, if the em dashes were lost from the original text where they were, then manually checking all the dashes is going to be a lot harder then just redoing the book from the original source (unless a lot of editing went into the conversion).
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Thinking that the use of proprietary ebook formats like Mobi will keep someone else from doing something that you don't like with an ebook is just as useless as adding DRM. Honest people will respect the author's/publisher's rights and dishonest people will steal, regardless of format or DRM use.
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We can convert Mobi to HTML fairly easily now. But sometimes it's not always easiest to edit if you need to fix a lot of things best fixed by redoing the original text.