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Originally Posted by Trane
... But from what I read in the PDF it looked like Amazon might not allow photo images that include a transparent bg. WHY NOT? This should be up to the author, not Amazon.
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I'm guessing that Amazon wants their format to work on all of their devices - including e-ink which doesn't do all that....so they don't really care about what the author wants to do (creativity wise), they only care about what's going to make them the most money....welcome to Amazon!
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Originally Posted by Trane
Amazon's arcane rules (imho) force authors to dumb-down and reduce the visual attractiveness and professionalism of their books... by forcing GIF over PNG and treating transparency like an unneeded luxury. This in addition to not making mobi compliant with standard epub code.
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This is the problem when they are trying to support all the different e-readers they have produced - they dumb it down to the lowest common denominator.
Having said that, they DO have the newer formats available, but they just haven't kept up with the rules and processes to allow the author to take advantage of them. In their walled-garden mentality if they allowed you to only create books for non- e-ink devices, then their e-ink market would take a HUGE cut. IMO they seem to think that alot of their customers actually still USE e-ink... and yes I know there are SOME old codgers out there that prefer them. I know that I am listed as having an e-ink device, but I only used it the one time to actually register it...it was WAY too slow and clunky. Now I have the ability to download my purchased content to my computer where I can clean out all the amazon-sludge and save it in a free and open ePub format. [/rant]