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Originally Posted by JSWolf
One of the MAIN reasons for a reader is the ability to have larger fonts then say the pBook version. So if the main font size is too small, we can increase it. PDF doesn't work like that. You get one fonts size and that's it. Do you think publishers are going to make PDF for every size screen in every font size? if you do, you are sadly mistaken. PDF comes in fixed sized usually not good for portable readers. So unless the the publishers can make PDF in every size with every font size, it's a useless format for eBooks.
I read on small and the same eBook, my wife would read at medium. If I made a PDF that was ok for me, it would not be ok for her. But I can make an ePub that is OK for both of us.
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I have to agree here, that ahi's proposal of a PDF for every device is not likely to happen. Just as mass-market paperbacks represent a trade-off of quality for cost and portability, opting for a small reading device is also a trade-off, and reflowable text best serves the priorities that trade-off represents. Why would anyone make those trade-offs? Because their priorities are different.
Most of the reading public, however, don't require larger or different fonts, and many will continue to opt for an actual-size, fixed format rendition of the printed page either on laptops/tablets/PCs they already have or on dedicated readers designed to that end.
Both formats will likely be with us for a long time.