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Old 09-05-2008, 09:39 AM   #10
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Originally Posted by DaleDe View Post
Topaz is designed for additional features that are not available in mobi. I suspect it is likely that it is or will become the preferred format for Amazon. How is this the biggest formatting problem?

Dale
I seriously doubt that it will become the preferred format if readers have anything to say about it. Formatting a book in Topaz increases the size of the book ten-fold, slows down the page turns annoyingly, and produces an ugly looking page.

It's enough of a problem that the first thing that I look at when I'm thinking of purchasing a book from Amazon is the size of the download. If the details of that aren't available, I download a sample and check. A big tip-off is if the book is published by St. Martin's Press. They're the big users.

Jim
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