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Originally Posted by ahi
but there is no reason to assume that eBook reader display sizes won't get standardized and publishers won't start taking eBooks seriously enough one of these days to start publishing professional quality eBooks for them, instead of throwing overpriced sloppy HTML dumps at their customers.
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Actually, the existing norm appears to be that people read pbook-derived PDFs on screens large enough to accommodate them (typically LCDs), so the standard already exists: a hardcover book. While there's variation among hardcovers, 95% will display with good fidelity on a 10" widescreen display, which also seems to hit a lot of people's sweet spot for portability-vs-screen-real-estate in a laptop. EInk devices have difficulty with PDFs because the hardware isn't suitable for displaying...books.