Free Book (Kindle) - The Anvil of the World - Page 2

twobits · 10-22-2010, 06:46 PM

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Originally Posted by kennyc

I believe it was specifically done that way for DRM purposes.

I suppose that making a format that many people would not even want to copy would be a pretty effective drm!

koland · 10-22-2010, 10:34 PM

Not really specifically for DRM. The format was create to allow companies with only paper copies to quickly build ebooks (with as little effort at Amazon's end as possible, I'm sure), without taking the time to re-input them to digital form.

It's basically similar to a PDF with the images included (and ocr'd text in it, usually, which is used for the indexes and searching). The "fonts" are then created from the OCR'd images and the "letters" it created. The problem being that often things get jumbled in the presentation (as they don't actually show you the images, but font-adjustable text; sometimes, though, it forgets where a paragraph starts and puts the part of the first sentence or so at the end of the paragraph, which can make reading a bit more "interesting"). Fonts are usually awful, as a result, and embedded tables can be unreadable (then again, that can happen on all the formats).

Some Topaz books, though, can look quite good. I suspect they were cleaner copies and scanned at higher resolutions.

kennyc · 10-23-2010, 05:11 AM

Ah, hadn't really thought of that angle Karen. Thanks.

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10-22-2010, 10:34 PM	#17
koland Grand Sorcerer Posts: 8,560 Karma: 8033155 Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: TN, USA Device: kindle(all), nook, nookcolor, Sony, Kobo, epic, iphone, iPad, pc	Not really specifically for DRM. The format was create to allow companies with only paper copies to quickly build ebooks (with as little effort at Amazon's end as possible, I'm sure), without taking the time to re-input them to digital form. It's basically similar to a PDF with the images included (and ocr'd text in it, usually, which is used for the indexes and searching). The "fonts" are then created from the OCR'd images and the "letters" it created. The problem being that often things get jumbled in the presentation (as they don't actually show you the images, but font-adjustable text; sometimes, though, it forgets where a paragraph starts and puts the part of the first sentence or so at the end of the paragraph, which can make reading a bit more "interesting"). Fonts are usually awful, as a result, and embedded tables can be unreadable (then again, that can happen on all the formats). Some Topaz books, though, can look quite good. I suspect they were cleaner copies and scanned at higher resolutions.

10-23-2010, 05:11 AM	#18
kennyc The Dank Side of the Moon Posts: 35,897 Karma: 119230421 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Denver, CO Device: Kindle2; Kindle Fire	Ah, hadn't really thought of that angle Karen. Thanks.

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