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Originally Posted by netlaptop
We have a series of books that we want to share them as FREE distribution, not for commercial purpose. In the past the book was printed for free distribution, and the printed books could not meet the huge demand. And many queries regarding the books keep on sending to the distributor for the free book.
So we are on the way to find a good solution and type file to publish them as free eBooks which is more convenient. But at the same time, we do not want other people take this advantage and publish them as commercial printed books.
So we now understand that it is impossible for preventing printing. But now the question left is which TYPE FILE is popularly supported among device.
ePub is also good but some low-tech device cannot open it.
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Ah, I see. The only way you can prevent commercial re-distribution (in paper or eInk) is by prosecuting anyone who does that. Hopefully, the existence of a free electronic version will mean that no-one finds it profitable to do it.
I would advise producing
* a PDF version that's just a PDF version of the print document, with any illustrations reduced to 96dpi. This is the easiest to do. Don't forget that it doesn't need much in the way of margins.
* an ePub version. This will be useful to all non-Kindle owners, and you can easily produce it with Sigil
* a combined Mobi/KF8 kindle version. Unless you're doing really fancy layout in the ePub, you can generate this from the ePub using KindleGen, and then use the KindleStrip python script to make it a sensible size by stripping the copy of the source ePub from the final book. This combined format will work on any Kindle device or software, with newer ones using the more capable KF8 format, and older ones the mobi version.