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08-29-2008, 07:50 PM | #32 | |
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I don't see anything to "forgive" in Tor's offer. They stated that the freebie ebooks were promotion for the new Tor.com site. They never said they were anything else, or that they indicated any future direction Tor planned to take in ebooks. I agree that it would have been splendid if Tor actually had the remaining books in ebook form for series they offered the first of in the promotion. But I wasn't angry about it. I can't justify getting angry about not getting something the other party never committed to supply in the first place. ______ Dennis |
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Me too. These particular books are in the infamous "Topaz" format and are full of eggregious errors. I'll take some screen captures to show you what I mean. I plan to send some feedback to Amazon's Kindle support to indicate that these books have such poor production quality. Since I did enjoy the stories, I'm not going to clamor for my money back, but I would appreciate getting an updated & improved copy. |
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08-30-2008, 04:31 PM | #34 | |
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For the most part, I've been pleased with ebooks I've seen from commercial sources. I did see one amusing bit, in a book from the Baen Free Library, that had things like author's notes to himself still in the text. A query revealed that this ebook had been generated from an Advance Reading Copy (uncorrected galley proofs) in order to get it out in time for inclusion on a CD to be bound into the hardcover. I wasn't unhappy at all. The oddities didn't really affect the readability of the ebook, and the glimpses into the writing process were fun. But it stuck out by example: normally, Baen's ebook production is first rate. It's a reason why I'm hoping ePub succeeds as a standard format. Not for the end user, necessarily, but for the publisher. ePub contains all of the elements needed for an ebook, and should be a good base from which to convert to whatever format the end user will actually read. And it should be possible to automate that conversion, so that once a good quality ePub version exists, the rest can happen automatically. ______ Dennis |
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08-30-2008, 09:14 PM | #35 |
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Am I really dumb, or did other people have difficulty with the online copy of Rainbow's End ? There were a number of links, but no text.
I'd be willing to buy the book, but where? Point of Clarification: When I do find a book that I want besides Connect.com or the marvelous collexion here at Mobile Read, what's the best format for the PRS-500? Last edited by Cthulhu; 08-30-2008 at 09:17 PM. Reason: I'm not real bright |
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