Thread: Errors due to format conversion - publisher's responsibility?
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Old 02-23-2012, 02:53 AM   #16
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
A lot of eBooks start out as PDF. So yes, the conversion process can and does introduce errors.

I just purchased books 1 and 2 of a trilogy that languished as two books for quite a long time. As the manuscript for book 3 was lost, the owner of the franchise commissioned another author to re-write the final book in the trilogy. This ebook I purchased through Amazon

The only ebook version of books 1 and 2 I could source were PDF ebooks officially sold by RPGNow, consisting of scans of original paperback. I had expected to convert the PDF's to ePUB and read the two books on my ereader, but now have to do some interesting multipart conversions to get to a useable format.

I am nearly there. Calibre can convert a CBZ file to ePUB, so that is the path I believe should work. Failing that I will have to read them on my iPAD as PDF.

So I cannot really blame the publisher for this, though it is a pity they were scanned images and not properly formatted as text.
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