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Originally Posted by Donnageddon
I downloaded Mr. Sigler's book, because I want to support ebook awareness and commerce. But I am again disappointed that what would seem to be a great advertisement for an author is hijacked by sloppy delivery.
Because the PDF is formatted with "Kluge" it makes it difficult to transfer to a reader, and since it is an author I am not familiar with, I am unlikely to do the difficult clean-up necessary to make it readable. And if the publishers believe that reading a book from a computer screen is what "digital books" is all about, they are making a mistake.
Perhaps the publishers do feel that digital reading is not something that can work, and by releasing the book as a difficult to deal with PDF, they are just assuring that it will fail.
I would almost prefer they release a couple of chapters in a more ebook friendly fashion. If the format were more user friendly, then we could at least read the "teaser" chapters easily and decide if it were worth the money to buy the whole book. which would then could be released even with dreaded DRM, but in multiple formats for all reader hardware.
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I've managed to clean up most of the kludge in the PDF after i converted it to HTML and then loaded it into Book Designer. Not that hard. Now I just will go through the PDF and see if there is any special formatting I need t deal with and I should hopefully be done.