11-26-2009, 02:26 PM | #1 |
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Aptara eGen: high-volume ebook conversion Software
Aptara just announced their latest SaaS product, eGen. It's a large scale Epub creation software aimed at major publishers.
I'm sure it's nice and all, but even with a large number of titles to convert I'd still stick with calibre. I have had a few conversion runs of two hundred or so titles. Calibre was more than capable of the task. And this was on my 1.8GHz Pentium M laptop, too. |
11-26-2009, 03:01 PM | #2 |
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How do you know they aren't using calibre behind the UI anyway
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11-26-2009, 03:43 PM | #3 |
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Kovid,
Are you implying that they'd rip off your code? |
11-26-2009, 04:22 PM | #4 |
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11-26-2009, 06:51 PM | #5 |
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Wouldn't exactly be a rip off I think the calibre license allows this. Only people being ripped off are their customers.
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11-27-2009, 12:47 AM | #6 |
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11-27-2009, 01:13 AM | #7 |
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I have one of my Calibre instances running on my Acer netbook with Ubuntu 9.10 and Atom processor. It's a good team!
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11-27-2009, 03:14 AM | #8 |
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Calibre does not do the job correctly. But the guys at Aptara didn't do it right neither last time we checked them.
Converting formats, and digitizing books is a burden for publishing companies. |
11-27-2009, 09:42 AM | #9 |
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