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Originally Posted by Jack Tingle
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.
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What you describe is a niche curiosity that will never gain wide adoption for general reading of books, because comfortable and pleasant (as opposed to merely viable) reading is best facilitated by reasonably book page sized displays.
eBooks *AS* pBook equivalents (with possibly additional [not compensatory] features) is the only way for eBooks to ever be taken seriously either by publishers or by the majority of the book reading public.
If you feel otherwise, what do you base your assumption on?
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Originally Posted by Jack Tingle
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.
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3000 downloads of my free non-eBook-device PDF over 4 months vs. mobileread.com's 700 downloads of their free non-PDF eBooks over 18 months. (same title, of course: Sun Tzu's "The Art of War")
You can consider reflowing and text-resizing a feature... but they really are primarily compensation for poorly produced eBooks.
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