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Old 02-04-2010, 06:01 PM   #17
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Originally Posted by mcl View Post
Many of the ebook titles that became entirely unavailable when Amazon yanked them is because, for the most part, those titles were titles for which macmillan refused to produce an ebook. Amazon scanned it themselves, with Macmillan's permission.

To verify this, I think you'll find (when you check again), that most of the "exclusive" titles were in fact Topaz-format ebooks: a sure sign that Amazon themselves scanned and OCR'd the title.
Are you SURE that Amazon scanned and OCR'd them?

Most of Macmillan's books have been available DRM free from the 'Universal Library' in multiple formats for years now. it seems more likely that Amazon would have saved themselves a lot of work by 'sharing' the load!

Or are the Topaz-format ones too badly formatted for that?
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