Sentences with phrase «badly formatted ebooks»

And oh yeah, one other thing I wanted to post about today: my current levels of frustration with badly formatted ebooks.

There are few things, if any, readers hate more than a badly formatted ebook.

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Whether you publish your book in hard back, paperback, or in one of the many eBook formats currently available, unless you take more care, it won't be long before you become ignored as a writer, or worse, totally forgotten.

Also, as an FYI, as a power - consumer of ebooks, the WORST formatted ones, with arbitrary pages of space between paragraphs, etc, are from the major houses, which presumably (but not necessarily) have dedicated html people.

I'm guessing it wouldn't), it's good to see publishers experimenting with the ebook format, which should be more than a badly formatted PDF.

Unfortunately, the book we downloaded (published by Random House eBooks) was badly formatted with words being concatenated on average every paragraph.

Ebooks use the same type of code structure for formatting, so she'd know when code was bad or not needed because she's lived and breathed this stuff.

Yesterday I had that experience when I read an article contending that proprietary eBook formats are good rather than bad, and that while «someday» we may have a truly interoperable eBook format, for now we should just sit back and appreciate proprietary formats in this area.

Bad book formatting, especially in eBooks, is a becoming a big problem.

Google Books are up there with the worst of ebook formats.

Many ebooks might badly formatted.

I thought it was bad merely having ALL formats of Macmillan books» buy buttons removed — print versions as well as ebook version.

Bad formatting marks you an amateur and drives readers away, and Word is notorious for inserting tons of special characters invisible while in that program but glaringly obvious when converted to ebook format.

Some of the worst formatted and most expensive eBooks I've purchased have been from Big 5 publishers.

As if that's not bad enough a lot of the time ebooks that you spend good money on are horribly formatted by the author or publisher, and if the ebook has DRM there's not much you can do about it.

Bad spacing, words appearing at random, graphics overlaying text, whole chapters bolded and italicized... You name it, it could go wrong in eBook formatting.

The essence of our statement was that close to 75 % of all pirates ebooks suffer from badly formatted books, spelling mistakes, scanned books and other factors that contribute to most books easily found as unreadable on most e-readers.

Please be aware that not all platforms display special layouts and features by default; Amazon / Kindle is the worst in this area because of the limits inherent in its outdated MOBI ebook format.

You need to crunch your numbers, including the fact that traditionally published books sell very well in places other than Amazon and in formats other than ebooks, while self - published genre fiction still faces the same (or worse) uphill battle that it always did.

Bad formatting, especially in an eBook where page endings and special formatting does not exist (again as I write this, the rules are changing faster than I can type this article — the EPUB format, for example) dramatically affects the experience for the reader.

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Yes, children's ebook are harder to sell than adult stuff, but my middle - grade «Goblin Brothers» do sell a few copies here and there, and that ebook is a short story collection, a format which seems to do worse than individual short stories (how odd, huh?)

And another reviewer seemed to be mimicking the bad formatting you'd experience if you tried to read the ebook, by adding lots of unnecessary extra line breaks!

The actual implementation of KFX is being handled on Amazon's server backend, which means no extra formatting is required in actual eBooks and not tools are currently required, though that is most definitely likely to change because it makes the creation and evaluation of content a tedium at best and a nightmare at worst.

Or worse yet have actual readers become vocal naysayers because they couldn't get past a poorly formatted eBook.