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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Agreed, there are certainly situations where they could do a better job with maps and such in history books.
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Even in fantasy books. Some have such crappy maps that they are unreadable. Why can I find high resolution versions on Google, within seconds, so that I can zoom and pan, while publishers just provide a crappy 400x300 "map"?
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I'm not sure if the issue is that publishers don't want to bother with hi-res map scans, or if the reader software doesn't do a good job of scaling hi-res graphics.
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They work fine with high-res maps. I have several books in which I have replaced crappy 400x300 pixels "maps" with Googled versions, often being 2000+ pixels on the long side.
The only downside is that the page takes a second to render and the book will be bigger.