Hi, guys -
I own a Kindle 2 and an iPad, and I recently began comparing the formatting of books that are available for both Kindle and iBooks. There are some very subtle differences.
An example would be in Thomas Friedman's Hot, Flat and Crowded 2.0. If you look at the first page of the first chapter, iBooks and Kindle treat the large "O" that opens the first sentence (I'm sure there's a term for this, though I don't know it) differently.
I'm wondering if differences like this are tied to the file types (epub vs mobi/azw) or if the books actually receive different formatting for each store. Also, has anyone noticed formatting errors on one platform that aren't present on the other?
Thanks!
I own a Kindle 2 and an iPad, and I recently began comparing the formatting of books that are available for both Kindle and iBooks. There are some very subtle differences.
An example would be in Thomas Friedman's Hot, Flat and Crowded 2.0. If you look at the first page of the first chapter, iBooks and Kindle treat the large "O" that opens the first sentence (I'm sure there's a term for this, though I don't know it) differently.
I'm wondering if differences like this are tied to the file types (epub vs mobi/azw) or if the books actually receive different formatting for each store. Also, has anyone noticed formatting errors on one platform that aren't present on the other?
Thanks!