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Originally Posted by eggheadbooks1
Yes, and that is why I stopped doing ebook conversions. I still do them for myself and for friends who cannot afford to hire someone like you, but otherwise I'm done with this craziness, at least when it comes to images. Images in Kindle books are easy because they are particular to Amazon, but with all the ePub apps out there, and everyone programming differently, it's a nightmare.
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Well...it requires several things. It requires doing it fairly full-time, so that you can keep up with what works on what devices. You need to know what fonts will work at Amazon, for example. Or won't. Or will be stripped--and how. The proliferation of cheap ePUB-reading apps certainly hasn't helped, but I know that I and most of the commercial builders now simply tell clients that the books are created for the main platforms--Amazon, B&N, iBooks & KoboBooks, on devices, and that's that. There are far too many Droid-based readers that will drive you bonkers.
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I'm beginning to suspect that iBooks has an option to turn off publisher formatting, like many other ePub apps do, and that this may have been the culprit from the start. Do you know if it does? I Googled it but nothing came up.
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There's a publisher font option, yes, on
the K4IOS app. At least two of the Kindle devices have this as well. Not on the iBooks app, although you can change the fonts.
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I much prefer sticking to my day job, which is as a writer and editor. Language may evolve and change but at least different devices don't change the words (though give Apple time and I'm sure they'll do something there too).
(That said, there was some bizarre Christian app that would change "offensive" words in one's ebooks. You would get crazy stuff like "The witch gave birth to a litter of puppies" or "You anus, I hate you!")
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There was a fairly lengthy thread on this forum, somewhere--one of the sub-fora--about that very app. But if memory serves, the copyright holder/publisher of the book had to agree, or...something. I think it kind of died a slow death (the app, I mean).
Hitch