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Originally Posted by Kitabi
PDF and other textbook formats are not that great on eBook readers if you can get them at all.
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I said "text-based": that includes .txt, .mobi, .prc and .epub. PDF is often formatted to 5" and 6" screens, too.
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Plus the editing and typesetting on a lot of these books tend to be atrocious
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It happens, I'm sure, but then I've also had less than stellar experience with commercial epubs.
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Very different from a ripped cd. CD/DVD drives and sofware are more widespread than OCR's and scanning a pbook is much more tedious than ripping a disk.
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I'm not sure how many of these books really are scanned. Some, I suppose, especially the older ones. Newer ones are usually converted directly from digital sources.
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For the moment, I remain unconvinced that the publishers are under the same kind of pressure that the recording industry was under.
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We'll see. The ebook movement is not going to go away, at any rate, and they're bound to realize at some point (the way the music industry has, to a degree) that it's better to offer legitimate alternatives than simply complain about rampant copyright violations.