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Honestly it had never occurred to me to use images on the title page, so I guess I learned something interesting and important  |
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I think the potential "missed opportunity" here is the ability to float images on larger displays. Frankly, a lot of the reading systems are software-based and found on larger nonnative operating systems (kobo and Kindle app on android, & kindle and google play books on ios, etc).
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? I float them on small and large displays all the time. What's Kobo, et al, got to to with the price of tea in China?
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It may seem easy just to say write a query for each device (Sanders Kleinfeld refers to this as the Heinz 57 method of ebook formatting), but this can increase the complexity and cruft. Also, I don't know; how many devices does Kindle produce in a year -- and how many years has it been producing devices? This seems like a lot of extra work to gather this information.
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So, why not simply write 1-3? One for KF8, one for KF7 and one for any devices that are iOS? I mean...why do you feel that you HAVE TO write one for each device? Generally speaking, I find exceedingly few instances in which this sort of granularity might be required.
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I hate to start wearing my "Boo Amazon" hat again, but I think they overestimate the willingness of authors and publishers to create the same ebook on different platforms. Or the willingness of consumers to purchase devices that disallow many important reading apps on it.
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But see...again, why do you think any of that? Publishers do NOT create the same eBook for "many" platforms; by and large, trade publishers make one ePUB and that's it; however it renders on KDP, it renders. Smaller publishers will do an ePUB for ALL ePUB-reading devices and a MOBI for KDP. That's it.
People buy their Readers, by and large, from the bookstore that they use. The MR community shops for the "best" device, but this population is incredibly tiny, compared to the typical buyer of Kindles, Nooks, Kobos, etc. I mean, how many millions upon millions of people buy iPhones? And use that as their "best" Reading device, when it's far from? Meh...people use what suits them and only the teeny population of places like MR actually sit there and think "oh, no, if I buy this book on Kindle, it might not work on my Nook," or whatever. Hell, *I* have all those devices and by and large, I still read, 99%, on my Oasis. Why? Because it's the one that I like. When I'm out and around, sure, I read on my Droid phone, but if the book isn't perfect there, I don't give it a moment's thought.
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