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Originally Posted by Rhialto
Obviously he means professional in the sense of books FOR professionals. Technical books on software, web design, and most textbooks for example are usually PDFs.
Nothing to do with *publishing*.
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No, Rhialto. That's
exactly my point. It has
everything to do with publishing.
I trust you're not suggesting professionals are somehow sub-human -- that what is true for human beings in general, does not apply to "professionals".
I am a professional, too, and I hate PDF files. Like Jakob Nielsen said years ago,
PDFs are unfit for human consumption.
Again, publishing any textbook in the PDF format exclusively, is proof of laziness, or lack of education, on the part of the publisher. And on the part of the
readers, too, if they willingly put up with it, even striving to find excuses for it, instead of demanding the publishing of
all electronic texts in the accessible and user-friendly EPUB (or MOBI/equivalent) format.