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Originally Posted by eboyhan
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I have found very few books in the .tpz format in the Amazon store. I have never heard it described as a "fax emulation" format. My understanding is that it uses stronger encryption and DRM than .azw/prc, but internally it's still using CSS and HTML. You also seem to be implying that Amazon has something to do with eBook format selection -- other than providing the universe of possible format selections, the choice is actually made by the publisher, and increasingly it's the publisher that does the eBook conversion as well ...
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You have many good points, relevant to todays e-book market and contemporary consumer experiences. Print is really mature and pdf replicates that very well on a large enough screen. (Althoug, I don't really think that the huge text-books with multicolumn text or extra long lines promotes learning)
Amazon
does indeed encourage quick'n dirty eBooks via automated conversion;
https://dtp.amazon.com/mn/signin
... Just do it yourself, anyone can be a publisher ... forget all the professionals who come together to make quality books.
The fax-statement was from customer complaints about the Topaz format, citing the font's as being ragged like from a fax-machine. However, as a guy who worked on it says ... it's an artifact of automated conversion:
"The defects in Topaz books are because of defects inherent to the conversion process (which are the same defects which lead to it being converted in the way it exists to begin with)"
http://beesbuzz.biz/blog/e/2010/01/0...evelopment.php
Amazon might need a low bar to ensure that most books are available, but they could and should play nice with standards. There's more than enough publishers who desire to make awesome quality books in digital form.
