Nookd
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#2The 99-cent War and Peace I see on their site is published by a third party, Superior Format Publishing. Could they not be the ones that search-and-replaced "kindle" with "nook"?
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#3I was an engineer on the Nook team. It isn't possible for the device software to change text of books.
Most likely the author or conversion service took the Kindle edition, ran a search and replace for 'Kindle' and there you have it.
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#4Stupidity like this only hurts the long-term goal of making printed books something only hobbyists are interested in (like vinyl records), but what's the solution? Data integrity regulation from governments? Or will the markets take care of it?
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#5The 99-cent War and Peace I see on their site is published by a third party, Superior Format Publishing. Could they not be the ones that search-and-replaced "kindle" with "nook"?
From their site (http://superiorformatting.com/), it appears that's not the only problem they are having (from their site):
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#6I have the kindle version and it looks fine. And why are they paying for copyright-free material? They can get a nice eBook version from Project Gutenberg.
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#8Stupidity like this only hurts the long-term goal of making printed books something only hobbyists are interested in (like vinyl records), but what's the solution? Data integrity regulation from governments? Or will the markets take care of it?
It worries me that one day hard copy books will be viewed as a hobbyists endeavor..
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#9Stupidity like this only hurts the long-term goal of making printed books something only hobbyists are interested in (like vinyl records), but what's the solution? Data integrity regulation from governments? Or will the markets take care of it?
It worries me that one day hard copy books will be viewed as a hobbyists endeavor..
It worries you that people will read more? That people will read more varied things? That authors will get better compensation? That self-publishing will become a much more viable model for literally millions of authors?
Man you worry about some weird stuff dude.
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#10I have the kindle version and it looks fine. And why are they paying for copyright-free material? They can get a nice eBook version from Project Gutenberg.
I pay for public domain works all the time, often because the formatting is better or it's a specific translation I'm interested in.