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Originally Posted by JSWolf
But you can tell the people to whom you are formatting these eBooks for to get a different app such as Marvin and/or Bluefire Reader. The iPad itself is not a problem. iBooks the app is the problem. It's trivial to download a different app and use that.
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We already went through all this, and this is exactly the issue that I was making the analogy about -- what you're suggesting just ain't ever gonna happen. What you're saying, in effect, is to have everyone in the world who is using iBooks to stop using iBooks and use Marvin or whatever else instead, and if it was that simple a thing to accomplish, then I'm sure
you would have accomplished it by now, and nobody anywhere would be using iBooks.
In my experience with web design -- and I have no doubt whatsoever that this applies with ebooks, too -- people just like whatever app (in that case, browser) they like. IE ships with PCs, all the old ladies and old men out there like it, they don't like being told what to do and are leery of any "advice" you might give them to change, or are afraid that they'll screw something up, or lose some info/data somehow, or whatever other reason -- you just can't tell EVERYONE to up and stop using iBooks and expect that it'll happen with a snap of the fingers.
And so either you design for it, taking it into consideration, with all it's quirks, or you don't -- and if you don't, well, if your book looks like crap in iBooks, then the people out there aren't going to assume that it's the app's fault, they're going to assume that it's your fault.
In any case, your suggestion to simply "tell the people to whom you are formatting these eBooks for to get a different app" is just absurd. How do I "tell" these people, let alone force them to obey my command? Do I put a BIG, LOUD note on the first page of the book that says "DON'T OPEN THIS BOOK UNLESS YOU STOP USING IBOOKS" or something? And then how do I go about locking them out from looking at it if they disobey?
Ironically, that
was something that was done with web site design, where some designers actually locked out people who were using IE, telling them that they couldn't come in and see the site unless they got a different browser -- all they accomplished, really, was to piss off a helluva lot of people all over the world, who thought the designers were basically just incompetent fools, far more than any minds that they might have changed.
Pardon my repeating here what I essentially said earlier, but as I did say, we went through this already, you (or someone) suggested that "solution" before, and I already explained why it's just absurd to think that it would actually work.
