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Thanks everyone, that gives me a lot to think about.
It sounds to me like I really have two different potential audiences to think about, serious ebook readers such as yourselves and folks that are more like me and just want to download and read something from time to time straight off the computer screen.
Let's focus on the latter group first, since that is where the author sees the greatest market. Since such potential buyers are already sitting at a computer, I would think that pdf or an exe file would be the way to go. What do you guys think?
As it turns out, simple pirating and loss of revenue isn't the author's only concern. The book is one that could be considered "controversial" in nature. Therefore an additional concern is that the work could be altered and then distributed in an altered form by someone who doesn't like what the book says and wants to discredit it or even someone who likes the book but wants to change a conclusion slightly. I've personally never heard of that sort of thing, but then I'm not really in the ebook world.
It also seems to me from the feedback so far that serious ebook readers are a completely different market and would warrant releasing the book in a format that is easier for you to work with, rather than sticking you with the pdf or exe designed for the first market. Would you agree?
Thanks again for all the feedback!
Tim
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