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The true problem with piracy is actually not the issues that others have mentioned with readers disallowing sideloaded files. The main issue with piracy is tha
by gtm1260 9y ago
The true problem with piracy is actually not the issues that others have mentioned with readers disallowing sideloaded files.
The main issue with piracy is that both Amazon and Apple have far more advanced typesetting systems in the custom file types (Kindle Format 8 and iBook format) that you get when you buy from their store.
The .epub format its still based on what, XML? .epub makes up most of what you see when you pirate. If you look closely you can see that most epubs actually are really badly typeset compared to the versions of the store.
- Nition 9y agoI wish there was a guarantee that when you bought a legal eBook from Amazon that it would be well edited. I bought the Kindle version of A Deepness In The Sky recently and it's full of what seem like OCR errors. Missing punctuation, spelling errors like "A1" instead of "AI", the word "hands" mysteriously in italics for a chunk of the book... There's no way anyone read it before putting it up for sale. I wrote to them in their formatting feedback form thing but that's just gone into the void.