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Originally Posted by PeterT
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Yikes!
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There is lots of conjecture about the KFX e-book format, simply because it came out in 2016.
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The release of KFX for enhanced typesetting in e-books was actually in 2015, but KFX usage for interactive magazines was even earlier.
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One of the biggest factors is that it is digitally encrypted and nobody has managed to crack the DRM system, which prevents piracy.
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It prevents more than piracy. Even books that are supposed to be DRM-free according to the publisher are delivered with DRM in KFX format.
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The KFX format is also “pre-rendered” to some extent, such as having hyphenation pre calculated and added to the text as either soft-hyphens or html tags.
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False. Hyphenation is handled by the reading device using dictionaries. KFX is a compiled binary format, which reduces the workload on the reading device, but contents are not pre-rendered. There are far too many variants of screen sizes, fonts, font sizes, margins and line spacing for that to be the case.
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This allows Amazon to push out their new Ember and Bookerly formats and to make e-books like way better than with Caecilia.
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Huh? What?