I did just reply to the email address used to send up the link to the eBook.
I hope TOR takes this seriously.
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I want to first off say thank you for the free eBook of Mistborn.
I am a moderator over at the MobilRead forums https://www.mobileread.com and a lot of the people there have eink based readers. Some have ilIads, but most have a combination of Jinke V3, Sony Readers, Amazon Kindles, and Cybook Gen3s. With the exception of the iliad these all have 6" eink screens. The problem with PDF as a format is that unless it's made to fit the size of the 6" eink screen, it won't display well and the reading experience won't be so nice. Some of the users (myself included) have been attempting to convert this eBook into a format we can use and it's not going well. Even Acrobat 8 Pro has a problem exporting it without errors.
What we would like is for your eBooks to be in a format that we can either use as is or a format that is easily able to be converted. HTML would make it very easy to convert to something our portable reading devices can handle. RTF is also good. But because these different devices use different formats, a universal format such as HTML or RTF would be very good. Please have a think on this issue and if you do decide to change your choice of formats to something the uses would enjoy more then please rerelease Mistborn in such a format as well as any of the future free eBooks you are giving away.
A lot of people aere not happy with the PDF you've supplied even though it is free. Not being able to get it easily setup for a good enjoyable experience on their portable reading devices is severely hampering their enjoyment. So please, give this some very serious though. What is said over at MobileRead does sometimes get picked up my the big blogs such as Engadget and others. And if the mood there is that of dissatisfaction, then that might get picked up by the some of the other blogs and posted. Please do what's right by the readers. You make then happy and they will purchase eBooks from you if you do then right.
Sincerely,
Jon Wolf
Moderator at MobileRead Forums
https://www.mobileread.com
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That is what I wrote to them just now.