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Londoner · 09-05-2008, 04:00 AM

Thanks for the fast reply, I shall get reading and try to gain an understanding of changing formats.
For someone new to the whole ebook phenomenon the manufacturers/press haven't made it particularly easy. The whole marketing machine seems to delight in telling the purchasers that they need to buy ePub files that will definitely work (and just happen to be sold by Waterstones at a crap discount), but that you're taking it into your own hands if you try putting anything else on there.
It's not clear that you can use any format and use some 3rd party software to easily change the format to work perfectly.
I wonder how much extra revenue their poor provision of information nets them?
There's more than likely a large customer base that wouldn't think to look around on the internet and ask a few questions, that will happily buy the reader and then need to purchase around 200 paperbacks to get their value for money!

09-05-2008, 04:00 AM	#3
Londoner Member Posts: 11 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2008 Device: Sony 505	Thanks for the fast reply, I shall get reading and try to gain an understanding of changing formats. For someone new to the whole ebook phenomenon the manufacturers/press haven't made it particularly easy. The whole marketing machine seems to delight in telling the purchasers that they need to buy ePub files that will definitely work (and just happen to be sold by Waterstones at a crap discount), but that you're taking it into your own hands if you try putting anything else on there. It's not clear that you can use any format and use some 3rd party software to easily change the format to work perfectly. I wonder how much extra revenue their poor provision of information nets them? There's more than likely a large customer base that wouldn't think to look around on the internet and ask a few questions, that will happily buy the reader and then need to purchase around 200 paperbacks to get their value for money!