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Originally Posted by avantman42
That I didn't know. I'd assumed they didn't, because I couldn't see any reason for them to do so.
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I think they do to check for automated errors. I saw that...somewhere when I was uploading my book last week.
I think B&N does an ePUB-to-ePUB conversion, too, because my ePUB contains the cover image as an embedded image at the front because I hate it when books don't come with the cover. When I bought it off B&N, they'd stripped the cover image out of the book, I'm guessing for size reasons. *sigh* In contrast, it's still in the Amazon version I uploaded to Amazon.
That's particularly frustrating, because I buy a lot of books from B&N and I'd always thought that the Big 6 were just lazy and not giving me my covers.
So I'm planning to put a notice on my site saying that if anyone wants the "real" version of my books, shoot me an email and I'll send it to them -- no reason they should be punished because B&N and Amazon and Smashwords want to churn-and-burn.