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Originally Posted by ahi
I didn't, Jack.
The current immature state of the technology will not forever be a limitation, and, in fact, 3 display sizes cover the overwhelming majority of 2nd generation eInk devices... particularly since cell phones are not really eBook readers, even if they can be bludgeoned into that role.
But this, along with the great likelihood (personally, I think virtual certainty, actually) of eBook reader device display size standardization, has been discussed at considerable length earlier in the thread.
- Ahi
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Again, you miss the point. ebooks are not paper books read on a book-sized screen. They're a more generalized means of transmitting information. One of their virtues is that generalization. If I read an ebook on a smartphone, then the smartphone is an ebook reader. (Supposedly, even dumb phones are a very popular method of reading serialized novels in Japan.) This flexibility is why I buy ebooks, rather than the dead tree version. If you make them inflexible, I'll save my $300 on a reading device, and buy the mass market paperback version.
As it happens, I've never bought a dedicated reading device, since I own far too many devices which can read a variety of ebooks in a Babel of formats. All that is a feature, not a bug. If you don't accomodate that feature, you won't be selling a lot of ebooks. PDF, as currently implemented and used, is horrible at exploiting that feature.
Regards,
Jack Tingle