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Originally Posted by DNSB
Looking at O'Reilly's web page, it seems most of their content comes in ePub, mobi or PDF plus .apk for Android devices. While Baen for example supplies 7 different formats, the only one that might be considered as non-reflowable is the RTF option which is easily printable to PDF.
If you want conversions on non-DRMed content, look at programs such as calibre.
You could try to convince publishers/ebook vendors that there is enough of a market out there for non-reflowable ebooks but that's likely to be tilting at windmills.
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But the publishers already have these fixed-layout ebooks in their possession; it’s basically the editor copies for the their hard copy versions. I get why Amazon wouldn’t bother with these formats but alternative ebook stores might consider it a value add, especially as these already offer these formats for some of their books.
Calibre isn’t really a solution as converting a flowable ebook to a fixed layout doesnt work well without professional copy editing.
I might just have to go the 1dollarscan option (not sure if you’re familiar with that in Vancouver — are there similar Canadian scanning companies)?
Thanks for your replies helping me think through this