MobileRead Forums
Register Guidelines E-Books Today's Posts Search

Go Back   MobileRead Forums > E-Book General > News
Reload this Page Aptara eGen: high-volume ebook conversion Software

Notices

Reply
 
Thread Tools Search this Thread
Old 11-26-2009, 03:26 PM   #1
Nate the great
Sir Penguin of Edinburgh
Nate the great ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Nate the great ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Nate the great ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Nate the great ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Nate the great ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Nate the great ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Nate the great ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Nate the great ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Nate the great ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Nate the great ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Nate the great ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
Nate the great's Avatar
 
Posts: 12,375
Karma: 23555235
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: DC Metro area
Device: Shake a stick plus 1
Aptara eGen: high-volume ebook conversion Software
Aptara just announced their latest SaaS product, eGen. It's a large scale Epub creation software aimed at major publishers.

I'm sure it's nice and all, but even with a large number of titles to convert I'd still stick with calibre. I have had a few conversion runs of two hundred or so titles. Calibre was more than capable of the task. And this was on my 1.8GHz Pentium M laptop, too.
Nate the great is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 11-26-2009, 04:01 PM   #2
kovidgoyal
creator of calibre
kovidgoyal ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kovidgoyal ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kovidgoyal ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kovidgoyal ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kovidgoyal ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kovidgoyal ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kovidgoyal ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kovidgoyal ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kovidgoyal ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kovidgoyal ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kovidgoyal ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
kovidgoyal's Avatar
 
Posts: 45,609
Karma: 28549044
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Mumbai, India
Device: Various
How do you know they aren't using calibre behind the UI anyway
kovidgoyal is offline   Reply With Quote
Advert
Old 11-26-2009, 04:43 PM   #3
wodin
Illiterate
wodin ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.wodin ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.wodin ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.wodin ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.wodin ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.wodin ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.wodin ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.wodin ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.wodin ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.wodin ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.wodin ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
wodin's Avatar
 
Posts: 10,279
Karma: 37848716
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: The Sandwich Isles
Device: Samsung Galaxy S10+, Microsoft Surface Pro
Kovid,

Are you implying that they'd rip off your code?
wodin is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 11-26-2009, 05:22 PM   #4
delphidb96
Wizard
delphidb96 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.delphidb96 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.delphidb96 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.delphidb96 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.delphidb96 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.delphidb96 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.delphidb96 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.delphidb96 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.delphidb96 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.delphidb96 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.delphidb96 ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
Posts: 2,999
Karma: 300001
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Citrus Heights, California
Device: TWO Kindle 2s, one each Bookeen Cybook Gen3, Sony PRS-500, Axim X51V
Quote:
Originally Posted by wodin View Post
Kovid,

Are you implying that they'd rip off your code?
Well, Calibre and Sigil are the best products out there for ePub, aren't they?

Derek
delphidb96 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 11-26-2009, 07:51 PM   #5
kovidgoyal
creator of calibre
kovidgoyal ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kovidgoyal ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kovidgoyal ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kovidgoyal ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kovidgoyal ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kovidgoyal ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kovidgoyal ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kovidgoyal ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kovidgoyal ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kovidgoyal ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kovidgoyal ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
kovidgoyal's Avatar
 
Posts: 45,609
Karma: 28549044
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Mumbai, India
Device: Various
Wouldn't exactly be a rip off I think the calibre license allows this. Only people being ripped off are their customers.
kovidgoyal is offline   Reply With Quote
Advert
Old 11-27-2009, 01:47 AM   #6
m-reader
Guru
m-reader rocks like Gibraltar!m-reader rocks like Gibraltar!m-reader rocks like Gibraltar!m-reader rocks like Gibraltar!m-reader rocks like Gibraltar!m-reader rocks like Gibraltar!m-reader rocks like Gibraltar!m-reader rocks like Gibraltar!m-reader rocks like Gibraltar!m-reader rocks like Gibraltar!m-reader rocks like Gibraltar!
 
Posts: 785
Karma: 100000
Join Date: Dec 2007
Device: Sony PRS-300. PRS-650, PRS-900, iPad2, Iconia A500, Irex Iliad (sold)
Quote:
Originally Posted by wodin View Post
Kovid,

Are you implying that they'd rip off your code?

Err ... A smiley face usually implies a joke or a lighthearted comment.
m-reader is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 11-27-2009, 02:13 AM   #7
mtravellerh
book creator
mtravellerh ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.mtravellerh ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.mtravellerh ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.mtravellerh ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.mtravellerh ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.mtravellerh ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.mtravellerh ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.mtravellerh ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.mtravellerh ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.mtravellerh ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.mtravellerh ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
mtravellerh's Avatar
 
Posts: 9,657
Karma: 3856660
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Luxembourg
Device: Kindle Scribe
I have one of my Calibre instances running on my Acer netbook with Ubuntu 9.10 and Atom processor. It's a good team!
Last edited by mtravellerh; 11-27-2009 at 02:17 AM.
mtravellerh is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 11-27-2009, 04:14 AM   #8
tibiafry
Enthusiast
tibiafry has learned how to buy an e-book online
 
tibiafry's Avatar
 
Posts: 43
Karma: 78
Join Date: Jan 2009
Device: Iliad
Calibre does not do the job correctly. But the guys at Aptara didn't do it right neither last time we checked them.

Converting formats, and digitizing books is a burden for publishing companies.
tibiafry is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 11-27-2009, 10:42 AM   #9
kovidgoyal
creator of calibre
kovidgoyal ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kovidgoyal ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kovidgoyal ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kovidgoyal ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kovidgoyal ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kovidgoyal ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kovidgoyal ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kovidgoyal ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kovidgoyal ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kovidgoyal ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kovidgoyal ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
kovidgoyal's Avatar
 
Posts: 45,609
Karma: 28549044
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Mumbai, India
Device: Various
Quote:
Originally Posted by tibiafry View Post
Converting formats, and digitizing books is a burden for publishing companies.
Not too worry, I'm sure authors will be happy to take that (and other) burdens off you soon enough
kovidgoyal is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-15-2010, 12:27 PM   #10
tibiafry
Enthusiast
tibiafry has learned how to buy an e-book online
 
tibiafry's Avatar
 
Posts: 43
Karma: 78
Join Date: Jan 2009
Device: Iliad
Quote:
Originally Posted by kovidgoyal View Post
Not too worry, I'm sure authors will be happy to take that (and other) burdens off you soon enough
That wasn't really nice.
tibiafry is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply

« Previous Thread | Next Thread »

Forum Jump

Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
Software to batch update PDF metadata/ substitute software for Sony eBook library ksri99 Sony Reader 6 05-20-2012 02:53 PM
Faith Seeds: Volume One - Free Christian Devotional Ebook jseay Self-Promotions by Authors and Publishers 0 06-03-2010 10:41 PM
New Author - free eBook! Strangities - Volume I CollinLandis Writers' Corner 13 03-25-2009 03:47 PM
ebook prices excessively high? Abisha News 8 09-26-2008 02:29 AM
PRS-500 Conversion software lilpretender Sony Reader Dev Corner 13 10-28-2007 01:11 AM


All times are GMT -4. The time now is 10:45 AM.

Contact Us - FAQ - Guidelines - Privacy - Top

MobileRead.com is a privately owned, operated and funded community.