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Originally Posted by Spacejock
They're sending the ebooks in Doc format where the original zip is refused for some reason. Doc seems to have gone through okay, and is easily saved back out to html or rtf. Not ideal, but the important thing is that people aren't kept waiting.
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Kinda, well, weird because without thinking I used one of my gmail accounts for the books. But to test it out I sent myself a zipped collection of books I bought at Baen-Webscriptions that was a bit over 2MB in size. There were zero issues. I did not anticipate any as I send and receive files as large as 10-20MB all the time without any issues.
I used a zipped file with books to make sure google was not snooping into the zip file then rejecting books perhaps because of DRM or DCMA issues. But that was obviously not the case as I sent the files from my ISP account to my gmail account using my ISP SMTP server. You know given these are eboks coming from AU. It would sure make me drop gmail and google in a hot second if they indeed were snooping like that though. So if your publisher does find out this is the case, I for one would like to know.
Did anyone figure out why there was a problem with gmail? Were their servers rejecting the mails after a certain number of files sent in an attempt to head of what could be a mail server bombing thing? It is just odd is all. Gmail can be problematic at times, usually when it matters most.
But, not in a hurry for my books, I have a few hundred others to keep me busy. And since I read a lot slower on my PDA I am sure there is plenty of time. I decided to re-read a few of my favorite John Grimes series by A. Bertram Chandler for fun.