Thread: What's happening to Mobi format?
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Old 06-10-2009, 11:37 AM   #31
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Originally Posted by wallcraft View Post
What has killed PDF as an ebook format is DRM, which prevents customization.
I would argue what has "killed" PDF (which is the most popular eBook format--quite regardless of its poor showing on eBook reading hardware) is that publisher's don't yet care enough about eBook reading devices to put in the effort to make PDFs specifically for them.

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It would be perfectly possible today to bundle a few (3, say) PDFs with different font sizes into one ebook, either implicitly (define a wrapper format) or explicitly by providing multiple PDF files. This might fit in with many publisher's workflow better than reflowable ebooks.
Bingo! I think it's the most sensible and most professional way forward.

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