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Originally Posted by toddos
I don't buy that argument. A publisher who sells PDF books is lazy. Unless you're reading layout-specific stuff (graphic design magazines, a tiny subset of poetry, etc), why do you care how the publisher laid out the book? Does it really matter that what the publisher intended to be page 3 is really page 6 in your e-reader?
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With a PDF, you don't have to worry about extra, unintended spaces between paragraphs, one chapter ending and the next beginning two lines later instead of on the next page, section breaks lost so that one POV leads right into another and you have to read through it three times to figure out what's going on, etc. I think many publishers are much lazier about laying out their ebooks than their PDFs.
Then again, most of the PDFs I read are ARCs from other authors and are on their way to a traditional printing. Maybe I haven't been exposed to the lower-quality PDFs.