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Originally Posted by JSWolf
But if Amazon had brought ePub onboard and then told these companies that in order to sell your product to work with the DX, you need to make ePub, then there's a chance that would happen. I'd rather have ePub text books then Mobipocket text books for one.
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I would have liked ePub support, but I was far more interested in PDF support. There are over half a million public domain PDFs on Google Books and archive.org to which I now have access. Creating PDFs from scratch is trivial. Creating PDFs from existing books and documents not already in an electronic format is also easy. PDF images of very old books preserves their character (think something like Newton's
Principia). Magazines, textbooks, company documents, and other printed pages often have a consistant layout on each individual page. Reflowable pages will often break that layout, so PDFs are a stronger fit for these types of documents. Businesses, government offices, schools, and hospitals all produce a ton of paper documents and once again it is trivial for them to produce PDFs which can then be stored or accessed through the Kindle DX. These same documents can also be easily shared with other entities that may not have an eReader.
I prefer ePub over mobi when it comes to a reflowable format, but I believe PDF files have their advantages as well.