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Originally Posted by xristy
Well if I was populating a serious economics website and considered Fabian Freeway an important book representing the position of the website then I would get a better copy to work from. They're out there.
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Hey, I don't make the choices, I only convert books. If it was up to me, I would also want high quality scans (so if someone like me came along in the future, I would be able to save that guy headaches... or save you in bad PDF headaches on your tablet).
Luckily the EPUB satiates nearly all people, and those who dislike the quality of the (PERFECTLY FREE) PDF, well then, they can suffer and buy a physical version (although a used version might/might not be worse).
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Originally Posted by xristy
Again I am saying make the PDFs available as well as the ePub/mobi. You are and that's great, but most publishers/distributors are not.
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Luckily, more are seeing the advantages of offering the books in a multitude of formats (Physical/PDF/EPUB/MOBI)... the publishing industry is full of slow lumbering beasts! I think the past few years though the tide has really been turning. The Kindle/Tablet/ereader sales are really tough to ignore.
And the better the tools get for InDesign/Quark export, I think the slightly better quality ebooks we will see. (Although I sense you will still have a lot of this "designed for iBooks" type nonsense). This will allow a lot of those typesetters who are not very familiar with HTML/coding, to more easily auto-export cleaner code.
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Originally Posted by xristy
I have actually purchased several of the O'Reilly eBook packages.
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Just like I am one of the few who works from badly designed InDesign files. There are dozens of us... DOZENS!!!