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Originally Posted by Jacina
You'll have to admit that pirated copies can have some serious variations in quality. There's some that are nice to read, and others that are unreadable. (not that I'd know... *cough*)
This is mostly due to how much time the pirate actually took to fix and layout his scan 
So she has a point, however, once you have a digitized book that has all the text problems fixed, its easy to convert it to different formats. |
Same is true for legally acquired e-books. I've had some horrible typos and even layout problems in amazon ebooks.
She really doesn't have a point. At least for new books. They all are available digitally; and typesetting systems (I only know some TeX-derivates) make it fairly easy to convert a book into any form you want. Making an e-book is infact easier than making a print. As long as you have the source material with properly marked indents, paragraphs and other formatting. That's a problem for older books which have to be scanned and proof-read first. But really, that's it.