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I agree with bwaldron here: For me the eBook is the content, not where and how I access to it.
What I want - and have the right to, as I have bought it - is to preserve the content.
The technology on where I access that content comes and goes… well in the case of pBooks, it as maintained itself almost the same for the last 500 years… and now is time to go on, because we need new ways to access to that type of content that serve us better.
About the anachronism of PDF, hey I teach digital libraries and up to the moment PDF begun having reflow text (tagging in adobe lingo), I would not considered it an eBook format at all.
Still, it offers it now, it’s an ISO norm for long term preservation, and that is much more then any of the other formats can put on the table today.
I do not say it’s the solution - what comes from the market will be the solution - but it’s a strong option for the resolution of this particular problem.
Best regards,
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