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Originally Posted by Sonist
If it was just books, I'd say, maybe.
But when large screens hit, with color, it will be also magazines, as well as other more complex publications, which will be viewed on these screens as well.
And I am not sure EPUB will cut it.
I personally am starting to think, that if there is a screen size standardization, which is very likely, it's all over. Not just because of magazines, but also stuff like Google book scans allowing PDF downloads. On a larger, color screen, these will be readable. Publishers can use the same tools they use for print, and output PDFs with very little effort.
With PDF, you can do a nicely designed magazine, with embedded video interviews (and ads:-), live links, etc..
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These embedded videos do not work on mobile ADE. So unless we get eink fast enough for animation, that'll never happen. Besides, I don't want it.
As for layout of a magazine, ePub can do it and do it well and it can be resized so people who do need or want a larger type size can have it. PDF is fixed and the current reflow we have is not good enough for a magazine layout with graphics. So why not use something that works (ePub) instead of trying to fix something that's unfixable (PDF)?
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People do not deal well with multiple standards, and I think a standard-size larger screen removes whatever advantages something like EPUB may currently have.
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Then we will dump PDF and in it's place put ePub. There is a sample ePub attached to a message on MR someplace that looks just like a scientific journal article. It's conciderably better the any PDF version as it reflows and changing the font size still looks very good.