A Request for Published Authors
Jeff Zeitlin 27 Jan 2018 23:47 UTC
If your Traveller-related book is available in ebook format, I'd really
appreciate it if you could release it through an outlet that I can, in good
conscience, purchase from:
Both Amazon/Kindle and Barnes and Noble/Nook make it virtually impossible
to actually download the book for sideloading onto another device not using
their software. As I don't like the "User Experience" of either the Kindle
app or the Nook app, and much prefer Aldiko on my Android tablet, this
represents a barrier.
Furthermore, even if you/your publisher tells Amazon to not restrict the
number of devices, Amazon still applies DRM (which prevents use of a
non-Kindle app/device - and possibly prevents use of
Kindle-not-registered-to-you as well; this hasn't been made clear in forums
where the topic has come up), which means that even if I find the right
azw3 file on a device (such as my desktop PC) where I might indeed have the
Kindle app, I can't convert it to ePub for Aldiko without having the Kindle
app on my tablet, because Calibre (which is on my Surface Pro 3
tabtop/laplet) can't handle the DRM without using a certain apprentice's
tools, and those need the app installed to get the magic key to handle the
DRM.
Because I don't use the Kindle app, my preferred formats are ePub and PDF,
as those are the formats that Aldiko handles best (and doesn't handle
mobi/azw at all) - and of those, ePub is preferred, as there have been
occasional PDFs that Aldiko can't show all pages of for some reason (though
Acrobat Reader on Android handles them just fine).
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