If I was going to offer an ebook, what format would you require? What might you be able to use even if it ain’t ideal? Quick replies appreciated; I’m looking at maybe putting something up for halloween…
additional question – if the delivery format was a compression file, what’s the most broadly used one? zip? rar? i’ve been in a tech coma for a minute.
John Moralessays
Zip is the most backward-compatible, but many formats use compression by default; EPUB, MOBI, CHM, DJVU are inherently compressed formats. So those won’t compress more.
PDFs are not compressed by default, but can be zipped etc.
Any. cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calibre_(software)
leanin toward just epub and pdf. meeeybe azw but i dunno if there’s weird hidden terms given it uses amazon drm.
thx for the link bud
additional question – if the delivery format was a compression file, what’s the most broadly used one? zip? rar? i’ve been in a tech coma for a minute.
Zip is the most backward-compatible, but many formats use compression by default; EPUB, MOBI, CHM, DJVU are inherently compressed formats. So those won’t compress more.
PDFs are not compressed by default, but can be zipped etc.
Oh, and Amazon’s AZW is DRM-wrapped MOBI.