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Old 01-22-2009, 03:44 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by TadW View Post
I remember reading somewhere that one possible drawback of having your (free) e-books distributed by others without your control is when books get converted and the conversion is done poorly (like when special formatting gets lost). This could in turn diminish the value of the original work.
From what I've seen ebooks from the Publishers are often worse than the ones you can find from other sources. I don't think the quality of the conversion has much to do with whether it's done by a "professional", it's more about somebody just spending the time to get it right.

Besides, if the original author is releasing the ebook themselves in the formats that people want, there shouldn't be any need for others to do any conversion.
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