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Old 10-14-2010, 10:28 PM   #174
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney View Post
What isn't the same? The output file for print vs ebook? No, it's not. But as you say, it doesn't add much to the costs. It can add to cost depending on material. Consider textbooks, that normally have a multi-column layout and things like side-bars and footnotes. The usual way to handle them as ebook files is as a PDF, but that requires a larger screen than most readers have for effective display. (The Amazon Kindle DX in intended to address this use case.) If you want something viewable on a conventional reader, you have to radically redo the design for effective display, and creating two separate designs for print and ebook does add to costs.
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What if you make a PDF sized for the screen? Make one for the 6" screen, the 5" screen, the 7" and the 9.7" screen and you have it. And it should not be too much extra work given that this is PDF.
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