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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
PDF as a commercial ebook format for novels and linear nonfic is going down. (And it should; PDF sucks for novels.) PDF as a business document format and as an archive format, is not going anywhere--and that means ebook readers will still need to support it. As a magazine, journal and textbook format, it's still on top; it'll be a long time before publishers accept that the print version & the e-version can look *entirely different.* (Also, it means adding a lot to the layout time if they have to take the PDF-ready content and reformat it for *good* epub.)
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O'Reilly doesn't print novels and nonfiction and pdf sales are still going down.