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Originally Posted by jgoguen
So the font files wouldn't have been a problem here, though that sounds like a royal pain in the ass. Sounds like what caused the problem here is this "social DRM" had a file referenced in the spine not in the book. It would be interesting to look at the book in calibre's editor and see if it detects a file in the book not in the spine... maybe when I get a chance  |
Most of the time I manage to make something of it by set the font weight to bold instead of normal so it is displayed a bit better but there are really terrible fonts used sometimes,the only other thing you can do is just let Calibre rip out the total font..most of the readers have their own set of fonts..
They have different versions of the social DRM, sometimes they use a hidden image where the image is set to base64 code,containing information about purchase,and put that in every file, sometimes the book get a visual warning with a number and they put the number in every file and rename the files with the number where the last 2 digits are the real page numbers (and i think that went wrong in this 2 books) but the most stupid is.. people just upload their books to usenet, adverting their hidden DRM like this and no antipiracy organisation get it out.. all the bookstores and publishers are screaming that epubs are so wide spread but they don't use the information in the books.
It now is legal under some conditions to sell your ebooks back to the store, who strips out your Social DRM and generate a new one when another person buys it, but most of the time they forgot to update the spine so the previous owner's data is still in the book. (author is being paid for every second hands ebook selling)
And when you sell your book back, you are supposed to remove your copy of the book from your device. (like someone will check you do...
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But at the next sync, Kobo pushes it back to your device because it isn't deleted from your account.
To make it even more strange, paper books have a price that is protected, as a book seller you are not allowed to sell it under the price that is agreed with the publisher, but with ebooks,the bookshop can make discounts because those books are not protected.
So they ruin the epub market theirself.