Thread: every mainstream ebook i buy...
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Old 12-13-2009, 10:47 PM   #6
delphidb96
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Originally Posted by fugazied View Post
Honestly it confuses the hell out of me, because you would 'think' they have these books as a bloody word document or quark express (printing software) somewhere.

So you would 'think' it would be a straight forward process to take the latest edited version and make an ebook out of it. But no, their workflow processes are so messed up it's an incredibly difficult task for them.. They need to join the 21st century.
It gets worse. If you format an ebook using Mobipocket Creator, from a nicely-formatted Word .doc, (including several different font families/sizes/bolding/italics interspersed throughout, all that will show up fine in the PC version of Mobipocket Reader, but won't on a Bookeen Cybook Gen3. You will at least get a range of font sizes and styles (but as far as I can tell, not families) with that same file transferred to a Kindle 2. Sigh. And while the page breaks work great from BookDesigner, they don't from MobiCreator when you simply import a Word .doc. Double-sigh.

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