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Old 06-29-2009, 09:57 AM   #15
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Originally Posted by elmoglick View Post
I don't understand why everyone seems to think that textbooks for the Kindle DX would be published in PDF format. Maybe I'm just being naiive, but I would hope that Amazon would be smart enough to employ their normal Kindle book format so that students could utilize all the inherent functional advantages of the device. Furthermore, Amazon doesn't currently publish anything in PDF format that I am aware of.

El
In addition to Sonist's reply, I suspect they will leverage PDF because the publishers are not likely to want to support multiple formats for their books, and PDF is commonly available on just about every platform out there.

On the other hand, Jeff Bezos recently commented that they will have teh AZW format available on non-Kindle devices in the future. Perhaps that will open the door for the format to be acceptable to the publishers. But I'd again refer to Sonist's post as to why that still might not work.

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