03-21-2017, 10:41 AM | #1 |
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Cory Doctorow?
Does anyone know where I can find good clean copies of Doctorow's books?
I tried his site, but the copies there look absolutely horrible. Most are missing covers, have incorrect metatdata, and the formatting made me want to claw my eyes out. help? |
03-21-2017, 10:44 AM | #2 |
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03-21-2017, 10:52 AM | #3 |
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Did.
It has a couple titles, but they're all old. |
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Which books are you looking for?
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I can't vouch, really, for the quality. I have seen part of the inside of a couple of the ebooks, and they looked fine. An author's probably going to make sure of that on his/her own website. http://craphound.com/. And, if anyone breathes a word about me posting fiction, I will vehemently deny it. |
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From what I recall of Cory's website, the deal is that he puts up a single format of each book he releases to creative commons (I don't remember which format, but it's not ePub), and then encourages people to convert them to other formats and he puts up the first contribution for each format on his website. Furthermore, these versions are missing the covers because his publisher paid for the cover art, and these are not the publisher editions, so unless the artist has also contributed their cover to creative commons, Cory doesn't have the rights to include the cover.
Unfortunately, this means that some of the editions on his website are actually poorly formatted, and won't ever get replaced by better versions. So, if you don't like the version you downloaded, feel free to grab the original format and convert it and clean it up for yourself, buy the publisher edition, or suffer the poor formatting. |
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But I am not sure it is relevant here; I have seen CC versions of Cory's books with the right covers before. And why didn't he think to secure permission for the covers as well? That's an odd oversight. |
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