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Old 01-02-2011, 05:15 AM   #9
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Originally Posted by JeremyR View Post
PDF was designed to replicate a printed page. Mostly so you can print something out. But many people insist on trying to use it for e-books, even though it's just the wrong thing.

As to e-book formats, basically companies want control over their own products. By using someone else's, you have to give them a cut of your sales and have to rely on them for technical support (even more money).
PDF is quite a good format. The issues tend to be related to the screen size of the reader.

Reading a large PDF of a monitor usually works out pretty well for e-books.

If there are images or other non-text content in the e-book then it's an excellent format for smaller PCs and tablets too.

But I wouldn't choose it for a text-only book

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David
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