How can I tell before buying whether a paid ebook includes illustrations? The book description at the bookshop's site is often not informative enough and misses this information, which is important for scientific and technical books. Here are a few tips:
- download a free sample if available
- check customer reviews or other reviews
- check the file size (if too short -- for appropriate values of "short" -- it's unlikely to include illustrations)
Any more?
I recently bought an ebook at Amazon for use with my Android Kindle reader. Although I know that the book has several illustrations, they are not included in the file I got. And besides, it is also poorly formatted.
I bought the book a bit too hastily. A couple of customer reviews did mention the missing illustrations issue. I posted a negative review myself, which was not published.