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Originally Posted by baronrus
Although it is a single platform I would be interested to know how many people are getting thier books form 'dodgy' sources. I realize that some (or perhaps many) of the issues are related to the kobo firmware. But at least some of the issues are also realted to users getting their books from dodgy sources.
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I've seen several people mention 'dodgy sources' on this forum being the cause of problems, but I'm not sure I see the connection between pirated ebooks and having problems with your e-reader.
EPUB's are basically just XHTML files. I can understand that a corrupted file or a poorly put together file may cause problems for the e-reader, just as a poorly put together HTML file can sometimes display fine in one browser but not in another. But even ebooks from legit sources can become corrupted, and we all know that even big publishers can skimp on testing their ebooks on various devices and create ebooks that are broken or that work on one device but have problems on another.
I don't think that 'dodgy sources' are any worse at creating good ebooks than legit sources. And I would imagine that 'dodgy sources' probably just make available for free the exact same files that legit sources are charging for. Or am I wrong in this assumption? Do they instead create the ebooks from scratch (which seems like a lot of work to me)??
And just to make it perfectly clear, I in no way condone pirating ebooks. While I may disagree with greedy publisher practices I think that authors should definitely earn a decent return on their hard work!