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Originally Posted by HarryT
It is? What bookstores sell e-books in CHM format?
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That would be most bookstores selling technical pbooks.
A lot of technical/programing books come with bound-in optical disks of example code, tools, etc. And chm versions of the book itself. A few years back pretty much all Microsoft press books had chm counterparts and most of their competitors did too. Mostly because of the interactivity and responsiveness, as well as it reflow capability, vs pdf. Plus it is easy to generate from html, rtf, and standard windows help files. It has its uses, what with its embedded structure, hyperlinks, and search.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microso...iled_HTML_Help
I haven't dabbled in those subjects for a few years now so I don't know how prevalent the bundled chm practice is these days. Still, I imagine there are thousands (tens of thousands? plenty of homebrew chm's, too) of those instructional and reference books floating around so chm support is a value-add for some customers.