This would seriously disrupt the conventional way that people
use different ebook formats.
Not exact matches
Perhaps it implies that they
use a
different format for sending
ebooks to this app?
There are many
different competing
ebook formats and a huge number of textbook publishers that don't all
use the same
format.
Completely true, if only people were more willing to do some investigation instead of blindly following the masses with incorrect information and marketing from the manufactures, I personally
use a variety of
different ereaders and I am able to read any box on all other devices by reformatting
ebooks to which ever
format required.
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.
Calibre's features include: library management;
format conversion (all major
ebook formats); syncing to e-book reader devices; fetching news from the Web and converting it into
ebook form; viewing many
different e-book
formats; giving you access to your book collection over the internet
using just a browser.
It
used to be that to get your book in the right
format for ebookstores and print - on - demand and make it look good, you needed an
ebook developer (
different and potentially more expensive than a Web developer — here's why) plus a graphic designer for your interior book file.
What makes the
eBook format so great for
use on so many
different screen sizes is what makes it less than desirable as a
format for highly designed PDFs.
•
Format the
ebook correctly for each platform (Kindle, Nook, etc.
use different software).
A. I think I
used Pressbooks almost from when it started and saw how fantastic it is to
format a book once and have three
different formats — an
ebook, print - ready PDF and have it available on the Web.
Absolute page numbers would be
used to refer to a particular portion of a book in a way that would be consistent on
different screen and font sizes and independent of the
format of the
eBook.
I know publishers who, if you buy one of their
ebooks directly, will send you a zip file with multiple
formats — handy, too, if someone decides later to upgrade their device to a
different one that
uses a
different format.
Ebook formatting and CreateSpace
formatting are slightly
different, even though you will likely join the Kindle ranks and
use both Amazon platforms, for digital and physical copies of your book.
Kobo's
formatted ebooks, kepub, have the top title bar, but regular ePubs
use a
different rendering engine so they don't have that.
I hope they allow us to
use a
different format download for our paperbacks, not just converting the
ebook file.
I'm curious to know (a) why you
used a paided - for service (ebookconversion.com) to do your conversion rather than
use software like Calibre (free)(http://calibre-
ebook.com/about), or Quark or Adobe CS5 which now accomodate
eBook conversion
formats; and (b) why you have chosen to send the second of your publications to a
different conversion service (ebookarchitects.com)-- is it perhaps because it's the one with the complex layout?
For this exercise I selected two file converters and
used them to convert two
different PDF files to an
eBook format (ePub and Mobi had nearly identical results).
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.
You can easily move a variety of
different eBook formats (including PDF, EPUB, TXT, and RTF) to your
eBook reader
using the provided USB cable, but it's still a hassle to have to access an entirely
different platform to read the stuff you've downloaded from Borders / Kobo.
For
eBooks, EPUB has become the most prevalent
format used by publishers for content creation and distribution around the world and hundreds of
different reading systems support this
format.
eBook Creation is a process where the
different format of books whether it is scanned book in pdf, tiff or hardcopies or paper
format is converted to a electronic
format using different tools and techniques.
I'm curious to know (a) why you
used a paid - for service (ebookconversion.com) to do your conversion rather than
use software like Calibre (free) or Quark or Adobe CS5 which now accommodate
eBook conversion
formats; and (b) why you have chosen to send the second of your publications to a
different conversion service (ebookarchitects.com)-- is it perhaps because it's the one with the complex layout?
However, if you do list your ISBN in your book, note that your one source file will be converted into multiple
ebook formats, and the International ISBN agency strongly advises that authors and publishers do not
use the same ISBN for multiple
ebook formats (so, a
different ISBN is required for EPUB, MOBI, PDF, etc.).