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Originally Posted by Solitaire1
As I said previously, PDF was wonderful to work with because of its consistency. I can create it on my word processor (OpenOffice.org) and it will look precisely on the same on my ereader that it looks like in my word processor. Based on what I've seen in this thread and in some of the EPUB ebooks I've purchased, it seems like that is not the case with EPUB and that (along with how complicated EPUB seems to be) is the reason I haven't made much use of it and when I have tried it I haven't been pleased with the results.
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That has not at all been my experience with epub. Except for the difficulty in printing a copy, it's been a very happy experience, now for almost four years. (I use Sigil, and the main reason I come here is to soak up the wisdom of the Sigil gurus.) I upload the same epub to Amazon, B&N, Apple (which rejects some books for violating some of its more obscure diktats), and the lesser e-tailers. I get reasonably consistent results across all platforms (and apps, in the case of Kindle books). Same with devices, though with the expected image-sizing problems in the earliest Kindle devices.
I have on occasion made a PDF of one or another book, but nobody ever bought one. More recently I made a freebie, with a chapter from each of five different books. Now that the question arises, I'll look to see if anyone has downloaded it....
Yeah, 28 people downloaded it in November. But I don't think that freebies often translate into sales.