A Declaration of ebook Independence

Jul 01, 2011 17:52


Ebooks are rapidly becoming as ubiquitous a format as print for book reading; a trend I am embracing with my ebook releases of Drawing out the Dragons, The Unusual Motion of Strange Beasts, and MythWorld Book One: The Festival of Bones.

Still, it’s not a perfect medium yet: everyone seems to use different formats. Amazon uses mobi, and Barnes & ( Read more... )

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firynze July 1 2011, 19:18:01 UTC
That's the system we moved to at Candlemark & Gleam - like you, I prefer the look of PDFs, because they look exactly like the book designer intended. It's more of an issue with beautiful illustrated books like many of yours, but it's still nice to have that look for regular books. But reflowable text is also a good thing. So we bundle all our direct-sale eBooks into a zip with all the major formats - PDF, Mobi, and ePub. You bought the book; you should be able to read it how you choose.

Bravo to you for doing this!

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