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Paul N
Thanks, that’s a very useful overview of the state of play in the eBook reader market. I look forward to the day when there’s one ebook format that works tolerably well on all ebook readers and distribution channels!
Al
Alan, thanks for the great Webcast, it was very informative.
Have you had any trouble with people buying an epub version directly from you and then having difficulty opening and viewing it?
I’m in the middle of testing/editing an ebook and this has happened enough that its making me wonder if we should just sell it through the major online stores so it can be downloaded straight to the customers device.
Thanks again.
Alan Pringle
We haven’t had a case—yet—in which someone couldn’t open our EPUBs on an ereader device or app. When we first starting selling EPUBs through our site, though, we did have many buyers try to open EPUBs in Acrobat. To let people know about the applications that will open EPUBs, we added this bit of text to the descriptions of our EPUB books:
You can see that text complete with links on this page in our store.
We have had a few cases where readers told us particular sections of a book didn’t look good on their devices, and we modified the CSS styling to mitigate those issues while trying not to create new formatting problems for other devices. It’s a balancing act, for sure.