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Originally Posted by Hitch
It's just, hey, APPLE! Compare that to how much Amazon spends on keeping even the oldest, cruddiest Amazon Kindle working viably. But they're not "cool." So we all sit here and waste time "formatting" stuff to work on ONE device, with ONE reader, that isn't even a particularly good e-reader.
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All complaints about Apple aside, how come I never hear anyone gripe about amazon? I mean, there you're talking about what? FIVE readers you have to design for, with all kinds of ridiculous kludges and multiple images, etc. etc. etc., just to do ONE simple, stupid thing? Getting my first epub to convert over to mobi and work in all the various kindles was such a total pain in the butt that I just didn't bother doing so with my second book, and quite frankly I don't know if I can be bothered in the future to design anything beyond plain ol' epubs -- just getting things to work in both ADE and iBooks is enough of a pain in the butt for me... but then, I'm not doing this for clients, and profits aren't my bottom line. I can understand that others out there are rather "stuck" with having to design for amazon...
...but like I said, whatever problems Apple/iBooks might have, at least it's not what I had to go through to get my book to work on all the various kindles.
In other words, it would seem that ALL device manufacturers should be shot! At least, all but one -- we can keep one, and just design for that one.
