Other markets have the old chicken-n-egg quandary sales aren't there so the content isn't made available and without content the sales don't improve. For those markets Mobi seven is adequate, epub and KF8 are more than good enough, and epub3 would be overkill. Right now the overwhelming majority of ebook revenues come from plain-text narrative fiction, with a much smalller but still substantial business coming from consumer-grade non-fiction. If you mean academic uses, ebooks haven't even begun to address actual needs either in the K-12 or Higher Ed industry.īut if you mean recreational, narrative reading, then I'd suggest that not only are the formats in use mature enough, at least one is way past mature and into gold-plating territory. And there is no guarantee that contacting them would do any good. Newer eBooks published in 2012 and later may have less problems but what really irritates me is publishers are often rushing to make a profit by scanning their books quickly, selling them quickly without bothering to check for errors. How much longer can we expect before eBook format becomes fully mature? Books bought from an online book store may not work with another eReader without hacking.ĮBook has been in the market for 5 years if not longer. The most common format, ePub, does not work for the Kindle. The fact that there is no single acceptable format that works for every e-reader. Dust jacket and back covers are not scanned.Ħ. Original artwork from the cover are often replaced by an ugly generic cover.ĥ. You have to manually flip back and forth which is very cumbersome for an eBook.Ĥ. Many books contain end notes and foot notes that are not properly linked. For example 1" being replaced with "i", words may get chopped off and combined with other words.ģ. Scanning may make a mistake that doesn't exist in the printed format. Books that contain pictures and diagrams may be poorly transferred at low resolution and may cause ugly pixelated graphics for mathematical notation (even very simple stuff like "¼").Ģ.
I think eBook format is far from mature due to current problems I noticed:ġ.
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