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Originally Posted by JSWolf
What Amazon has done is help validate PDF as an eBook format. That is wrong. It sends the wrong message to the publishers and public.
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PDF has its problems but many of those problems can be solved, and certainly larger screen ebook readers is a help. But, alas, so do all the other ebook formats have their problems, some of which may not be so easily resolved. Personally, I would prefer to see PDF's problems resolved and it become the standard than to have to deal with the problems of other formats.
Besides, PDF has one advantage over all the other formats, especially for for nonfiction and technical books: it is exceedingly easy to create and thus reduces the costs. It is very costly to have to convert graphic-laden books to ePub or other formats as one has to then try to fix the errors that occur in the conversion, such as graphics shifting.