Bought it, cracked it (there's your DRM talk, Ian!), fixed the cover, and loaded it into my reader app of choice. Everything looks good. Can't for the life of me figure out why it's not searchable, though. How did you find it, ST-One?
Where is "Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Paths of Disharmony" ePub eBook?
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Bought it, cracked it (there's your DRM talk, Ian!), fixed the cover, and loaded it into my reader app of choice. Everything looks good. Can't for the life of me figure out why it's not searchable, though. How did you find it, ST-One?
Though it wasn't at the time, it looks like it's showing up under regular searches on B&N now and is available for purchase from the S&S web site. I haven't seen it available from any of the other normal epub retailers though.
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I'm glad the amazon.com version of Paths of Disharmony was available on the official publication date, but amazon could still improve its e-book logistics. It would be nice if e-book pre-orders were available on the same day they are available to pre-order hard-copies. I would like to be able to pre-order the e-book as soon as I notice it online, but amazon seems to like waiting until the book is almost released (though, it varies). I'm still waiting to pre-order Fuzzy Nation by John Scalzi and the Lost Fleet: Beyond the Frontier: Dreadnought by "Jack Campbell" (aka John Hemry).
See... all is right with the world.
I've never understood the point of an ebook pre-order. Since most sites let you download the book immediately after purchasing, why would you need to pre-order?
Yeah, it automatically downloads. My main reason for pre-ordering, though, is that I might forget about a book prior to its release date. I want to be able to get the whole process set-up as soon as I hear about the book.
For instance, they usually release the trek schedule months or even a year in advance. I would like to be able to plan out which books will be on my "to-be-read-list" and make the orders all in one day.
I pre-ordered the first three TP books for my Nook, but I don't like the fact that they charge the full price when you pre-order it. I wouldn't mind if they let you get it early or something, but I don't like paying full price for something before I get it. If they did it like Gamestop and had you pay a percentage of it up front, and then the rest when it was released I would probably continue to do it.
I took a couple of days away from the BBS, and it's nice to come back and find out that all the dust has settled and I, too, can buy Paths of Disharmony for my Nook. Think of how much irritation and nervous energy I would have wasted had I been here at the beginning of this thread! 
Had I been around, though, I like to think I would have just thought to myself, "Oh, well - I supposed it might be a little tricky to get one book out in all formats all at the same moment. No doubt it will be available for Nook soon." Not saying I would have thought that, but I like to think I would have. We'll never know now, will we?
Had I been around, though, I like to think I would have just thought to myself, "Oh, well - I supposed it might be a little tricky to get one book out in all formats all at the same moment. No doubt it will be available for Nook soon." Not saying I would have thought that, but I like to think I would have. We'll never know now, will we?
ST-One
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Through the S&S-site.
Actually, everything does not look good. The embedded font is yet again not being displayed. S&S botched the ePub yet again. Why bother to embed a font if you aren't actually going to make sure it displays? All it does is make the file size larger.
This is bizarre. Isn't this like the situation where a pompous web designer has created what they believe to be the ultimate whizz bang webpage, but it's only seen looking that way on the computers of people who coincidentally have the exact same browser and personal settings as the designer? And he has no idea that no one else can see his page properly, beause floating images are obcsuring the text, or the text colours are too similar to the background colours?
I have several blogs with Blogger and Edublogs. One of my Edublogs blogs has gone through about five different templates now. What looks fantastic on my iMac and Macbook Pro looks absolutely terrible on the PC at work. I adjust the template again from the work PC and then it overlaps itself on the interactive white board's PC. There are very few fully-adaptable templates out there, it seems.
I've only ever downloaded about four ST eBooks, and not for several years now. Each one had a very weird presentation of the front cover, but when I checked with other people no one else was seeing the weirdly stretched images I was seeing. It was obviously some kind of incompatibility problem, probably because those four eBooks had been designed on a PC - and I was viewing on an iMac.
I feel sure that the embedded fonts you are not seeing must be visible to at least some customers, or at least to the designer of the eBook. If you're not getting the embedded font, what are you getting? Your default font?
Don't modern eBook readers permit you to change the font and adjust the size?
The code to define the fonts is in the CSS. But the code to actually display the fonts is missing. So no software would ever display the embedded fonts. That's what I don't get. When you view the ePub with ADE, you'd see right away that the embedded font isn't viable. So there is no way for these ePub to be broken by accident. The people making the eBooks are not checking their work. My guess is maybe they are using the same CSS for each book and not bothering to see that it's not correct.
Not all readers allow you to change the font. You can adjust the size if the CSS isn't set for a fixed size. ADE doesn't normally allow for font changing. So most readers that use ADE do not allow the font to be changed. But the font can be embedded and used that way.
does anyone know why PoD hasn't shown up on amazon's UK kindle store, when it is available as an ordinary book already?
I imagine you're right, they're just using the same CSS, whoever is making the ebooks isn't touching the CSS at all, so he decides he doesn't want to use the custom font so just doesn't call it. He doesn't take it out of the CSS as he doesn't know how or can't be bothered or doesn't even remember it's in there. And since it's not like ebooks are huge in filesize no-one really cares that much if there's redundant data in there.
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