Thread: Stephen Covey ditches Simon & Schuster, gives exclusive rights to Amazon
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Old 12-16-2009, 03:28 PM   #67
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Originally Posted by wallflower75 View Post
I was thinking the same thing. When the K4PC came out, I noticed that books in Topaz looked like they'd been scanned in. I was disappointed because three of the books I'd really been looking forward to buying were Topaz---so now I'm waiting for someone to crack the DRM (oops, did I say that out loud??) before I go ahead and get them.
I believe that is the case. When enough people click the "I'd like to read this book in a Kindle edition" to make Amazon decide to offer one, there often isn't an electronic file to start from. Amazon produced the Kindle edition by scan and OCR, but as far as I know does not edit or proofread the result. Whatever OCR produced is what you get.

I haven't heard that anyone has cracked Topaz, but unless you really want to spend the time cleaning up Amazon's mess, I'm not sure why you would want to.
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