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Originally Posted by Moejoe
You bring up an interesting point there. One that I'm not sure I could take a guess at. I know I, personally, don't want a 10" reading device, just because of size. But then again I don't want a 15" laptop (I have an 11") and they're by far the most popular range.
I suppose I'm just trying to get my head around the whole PDF being 'crappy' angle. Why didn't the major publishers push for PDF (sized correctly) when ereaders were first introduced? Why would Sony back ePub if they could just as easliy license and affix DRM to PDF (an already marketible and known format)? Where are Adobe in all this and why haven't they been more agressive in placing PDF as the format for ebooks?
There's a lot of questions in my mind, and not nearly enough answers.
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I don't agree. For me the only thing really 'crappy' about PDF is format shifting the book --LRF is on par here-- and PDF support from eInk devices. However since all of my reading devices support PDF I don't really have to format shift the book.
Look at the attached images. One is a screen shot of the actual page the other is a reflow from my BlackBerry Storm from a pdf reading program called RepliGo. The PDF support is great I just scroll up to read the PDF.
You'll notice the only thing the reflow does not handle well is indentation.
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Originally Posted by Moejoe
Why would Sony back ePub if they could just as easliy license and affix DRM to PDF (an already marketible and known format)? Where are Adobe in all this and why haven't they been more agressive in placing PDF as the format for ebooks?
There's a lot of questions in my mind, and not nearly enough answers.
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I kind of feel like SONY did back up PDF. PDF was supported before ePUB. Also the PDF support was also much improved with their firmware release.
Also on the same stroke SONY support secure PDF and secure ePUB.
Actually I think Adobe has been extremely aggressive in their support for PDF. And their manner of execution is impressive. They've done it with out looking like an aggressor.
By lumping PDF and ePUB together and calling the formats Adobe Digital Editions was brilliant. In one stoke they've blurred the line between ePUB and PDF.
Here's there marketing pitch. "You want a secure ePUB solution. No problem use our API, oh and by the way with that API you also get secure PDF oh and also PDF reflow"
A hardware vendor is going to have a hard time resisting this temptation. Not only do they get ePUB, but PDF support which is still the dominate ePaper/eBook format.
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