01-07-2014, 10:24 PM | #1 |
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Joe Hill's NOS4A2 - discounted but problems.
I'm not sure if this is the right forum for this, but since this was a discounted ebook, I've posted this here.
Yesterday, I picked up the epub of Joe Hill's NOS4A2, discounted at $1.99, as reported here in the Deals forum in a couple of other threads. As I was going thru my usual CSS tweaking & cleanup session in Sigil, I was shocked when the "Delete unused image files" tool picked up 29 unused images. These looked like some pretty nice drawings and illustrations, all unreferenced in the book's html. Looking through amazon's online preview of the print version of this book confirmed this - these are illustrations in the print version, omitted from the epub text. This kind of thing infuriates me. With the exception of tweaking font sizes, margins and such for my ereader, I want to experience the same content as the pbook when I read an ebook. Based on the image file names (most are named page_NNN.jpg, where NNN is the page number in the pbook), and performing text searches on the amazon online pbook, I was able to figure out where they go and restore them. I did email the publisher and ask them why all these images were omitted from the ebook. |
01-08-2014, 06:53 AM | #2 |
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I'm moving this to the General Discussion Fourm, since it concerns an issue that (apart from the initial purchase as a discounted item), deserves a wider forum for discussion and critique.
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01-08-2014, 07:31 AM | #3 |
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Hmmm....doesn't seem right.....but I know that because of the limitations/requirements of ebook formating many poetry books end up pretty mangled.
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I think most of the nonfiction ebooks I've bought have included photos that appear in the paper copies, but I recall that the ebook of Bugliosi's Helter Skelter didn't include any of the photos. |
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Yeah, including all those images without referencing them in the book just seems like someone's brain-fart to me.
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Doesn't really make sense unless someone decided that size, delivery costs (which Amazon and others charge) or something like that was an issue. |
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I think you're right, someone just screwed up in formatting it. |
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I just checked my edition on the iPad and also found no illustrations, but did find this buried at the end of the book:
"Exclusive to the print editions of NOS4A2 are more than 15 illustrations by award-winning Locke & Key artist Gabriel Rodríguez." Out of curiosity, how many folks here would have bought the print edition instead had they known? I would have been tempted to go print, but the ability to enlarge font would probably sent me to the ebook anyway, not to mention the bargain price. Still, there's no reason why the ebook should not have had the illustrations as well. |
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I agree, and I'm pretty sure the mistake was that they failed to remove the jpegs from the ebook before distributing it - I hadn't thought about the issue being charges based on file size. For example, one of the images is a business card. In the corresponding html text, that card is just centered text.
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Interesting. It sounds as if the images were always intended to be exclusive to the print edition. I've seen that sort of situation before. But never where the images were still included in the ebook's package--just unmanifested. Weird. Probably still a slip-up (if not downright incompetence), though.
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Although not bothering to strip them from the ePUB is criminally lazy. A scurvy scalawag sailing the briny seas might decide to re-enable them and distribute them as "authentic plus" or something like that. |
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Sounds like OP got an unintended bonus. I say enjoy
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