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Old 12-18-2014, 08:04 PM   #61
eschwartz
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Originally Posted by Psymon View Post
[...] Think of it like weighing how much of a relatively minor "annoyance" it would be for you, one person, the designer, to make your book work in that app, compared to the major annoyance it is for the millions of people who think your book sucks, [...]
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It's a minor inconvenience for you, because you are--no insult intended--you are a hobbyist. It's a major inconvenience to the rest of us, because we have to work around the "wrong" ways of iBooks all the time, to try to allow our myriad clients to have books that will work on ALL fronts, even to the extent of making 2 (or now 3) ePUBs for different platforms. That's really not quite the same thing as tweaking code to ensure that it works, however much of a kluge, across Internet Exploder, Chrome, FF, etc. Just a point.

Hitch
Hitch, I am unsure what point you are trying to make, you are preaching to the converted. And the "minor inconvenience" bit was specifically framed within a larger context.

Just sayin'.

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