I spoke a bit
about the different eBook formats (and also their royalties, etc) in my previous article EEEEEE - Books!!
Buying books directly from Txtr on your tablet, PC, Mac, or phone will save you tons of headaches
about different ebook formats and using advanced software.
Not exact matches
This could get very confusing if an author has to make
about 10
different versions of an
eBook in order to have a «native version» properly
formatted for each device in order to cover the majority of the devices available!
There are a few
different types of
eBook formats knocking
about.
Among the important aspects that one should know
about eBooks are; their history,
different formats of
eBooks, their advantages and disadvantages and what the market share of
eBooks is.
With both Amazon and Apple choosing to release
eBook production tools for
formats different from ePUB 3.o, the support of ePUB 3.o by just
about everyone else in the
eBook market gives the new specification the foundation it needs to ensure that publishers will devote resources to its creation.
e-book publishers seem to be quite willing to ignore the strictures
about different ISBN numbers for
different ebook formats and rightly so.
If you have any queries or are confused in general
about ebooks — check out the rest of our website — we have lots of information which should help you understand our services, including producing
ebooks from various digital
formats, converting from printed books / manscripts, the
different ebook formats and layouts, producing Print - Ready PDFs for printed books, website design, the
different retailers,
ebook marketing etc..
Integrating new options into the way people discover, use, and contribute to the record of scholarship can be exhausting, and someone who hears
about a new novel may have trouble getting it because it's not available through their library, their favorite bookstore can't carry it, it's in the wrong
ebook format, or it's only available to people living in a
different geographic region, which seems insane since their Facebook friends who are raving
about it have no trouble expressing themselves from a
different continent.
After all, people don't want to buy eReader (be it eInk or not), people don't care
about whether
format is open or not (although 1984 argument may scare some people, in reality
eBooks are little
different from paper books in this regard for all practical purposes).
# 2: I want to enjoy audio books along with
ebooks on my ereader and the Kindle works best with Audible.com for the audio books (Amazon owns Audible), making the process to buy and listen easy without having to worry
about converting
different formats... The easier to buy / listen the better, IMO.