02-05-2013, 02:15 PM | #16 |
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who cares for covers, fonts or paragraph indentation?
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02-05-2013, 02:25 PM | #17 |
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02-05-2013, 02:31 PM | #18 |
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I was born in the '60s and I don't care about most of that. Never could care about covers... even on print books—the author rarely has anything to do with them anyway. Never worried about how pretty the envelopes were that people sent me letters in either. There are no "givens" concerning age and these sort of preferences.
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02-05-2013, 02:33 PM | #19 |
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Presentation is a huge part of the package. If we carried your question further...
Who cares about spelling, punctuation, grammar... I wonder if a book written in nothing but text talk, with no spaces, paragraph indents, scene changes, chapters..."all in Edwardian Script Font"... wrapped with a picture of a pile of dog poo...would sell very well?? |
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02-05-2013, 02:37 PM | #21 |
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02-05-2013, 02:40 PM | #22 |
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I must be fortunate in that I've never read a book with serious formatting issues. Other than a few typos and a partial picture all my books have been good quality.
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02-05-2013, 02:55 PM | #24 |
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Normally I'm happy just being able to change to my font. So I'll open up an epub only if I find I can't override the font and usually just fix that.
I'm currently reading a book though where they went nuts trying to use tables multiple times, and each instance left it unreadable. One instance was for a press conference setting, putting the person or paper's name at the left, with their text in a right column. Which forced the text each said at the right so it would only be about 1/2 the width of the screen. And if the entire text from one person or source didn't fit on the same one page (and it often didn't), it was just lost... it didn't flow to the next page, it was just cut off. It's maddening to run into bad formatting like that. I was happy at least that I was at home reading and could instantly fix it. If I had been out for the day where I often read a lot, I would have been fuming for the next 8 hours until I got back home. I'd pretty much have to start another book if I wanted to keep reading, which I don't like reading 2 at once, or just live with missing a lot of key interchanges, equally unacceptable to me. But I find screwups like this just impossible to understand how and why they manage to do it as publishers. And after this one I just might do as others have posted, always open up the book first and see what needs to be fixed before I open it on my reader to sit down with. |
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Funny, I had always pictured you as being much older.
I, too, was born in the 60s, and formatting isn't a huge issue for me. I generally only read a book once and move onto the next one. The tragic result of a far too large to-be-read list. |
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I notice with both Kobo and Amazon the free public domain titles are all very average in their format. I think feedbooks has the best finished product for public domain books. To me it looks like Kobo in particular automate pulling from Gutenberg, and post on the online store. That said some of Baens books are average, but no DRM means quick convert. |
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02-05-2013, 05:16 PM | #29 |
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Feedbooks? Don't know them. Will check that out.
I find it epically stupid to present cheap or even free works so badly. They don't need to be up to the standards of an $20 eBook, but when nicely presented, that *does* instill confidence in the store. First impressions, you know. Like "If this is the free stuff, and that good, how great will the paid stuff then be?" Last edited by Katsunami; 02-05-2013 at 05:20 PM. |
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