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Originally Posted by All4Fun
It's become very clear to me that the best way for an author/publisher to reach out to the widest variety of ebook devices is to use a reflowable format such as epub. I'm just not convinced that authors/publishers generally know this. Should they? Yes. Do they? I'm not so sure.
If one leaves this forum and goes elsewhere, generally speaking, the predominant format discussed will not be epub or the other reflowable formats. So, educating people and making them aware of the alternative reflowable formats is what's necessary.
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absolutely agreed. luckily, publishers *are* becoming more and more aware of epub and the specific requirements of epublishing. more and more of them are adopting epub as their delivered format ; in fact a large number of publishers already have begun or have plans to begin supporting epub. in
this post there is a link to a video presentation which shows the spectacular growth of epub over just one year, which is really encouraging.
you can help educate authors and publishers ; if a book you're interested in is not available in epub format, write to the publisher and request it. ask them if they have plans to support epub, and tell them it's important to you. stay polite, of course ! but the more they see readers asking for epub, the more likely they are to improve their offer of epub books.