Ebook taxes called unfair by publishers

[pwalker8]

Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg

In the early 1930's, Laura Ingalls Wilder's agent offered her memoirs to publishers without success. I'm pretty sure it was intended to a narrative text that would fit, today, into the eBook format. If her survivors had offered the text to a big-five publisher, in the eBook era, and they agreed to publish it, I think there would be an eBook.


And yet they release the eBook on the same day as the hardback, and commonly sell eBooks at paperbook-competing prices once the paperback is out.

I would compare this eBook article of faith to the political views of "the NY publishing universe." That article of faith, or whatever you want to call it, doesn't prevent them from publishing the campaign biographies of candidates of both major US political parties.

Of course, there are people who vote for both major parties in any big, or medium-sized, American corporation -- even in Manhattan. Just as there are likely people in every medium-sized company, publisher or otherwise, who like or dislike eBooks. I would try to look at the behavior, not the motive.

Or assertion of what the motive surely must be.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by fjtorres

(Xin xii is particularly relevant here because they actively target the smaller ebook markets:

http://www.xinxii.com/)

Xin xii is just doing it wrong. This is a quote from their free eBook style guide.

Image Size

Large images should always be scaled down, so the file does not exceed our maximal file size of 40 MB (for example Gimp, IrfanView, Paint, Photoshop). The smaller the image the smaller the file. A few eReaders have a display format which allows for large images to be displayed properly. The loading of the image in the case of bigger image files takes a long time and alters the reading experience. That's why the image should not be larger than 400 px (pixels) and not have a high resolution (of course it should not be too pixelated!).

The images they use in this style guide are awful and not really readable. With newer high resolution screens, images should be high resolution so they can be clearly viewed.

[Little.Egret]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Xin xii is just doing it wrong.
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The images they use in this style guide are awful and not really readable. With newer high resolution screens, images should be high resolution so they can be clearly viewed.

"high resolution" - could you give some numbers ?