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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Jeffrey, I can't help but wonder if there is a significance to the fact that you sell e-books in PDF formats, whereas I made PDFs available but did not sell any at all. My PDFs were all tagged, whereas you say your untagged PDFs sold better than your tagged PDFs. Do you really think more people bought the PDFs due to the size difference only?
And what about compared to your other formats? My biggest-selling format has always been Mobipocket, with Sony LRF a not-so-close second once the reader came out. Now I may sell more ePub files than Sony LRF.
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Hi Steve -- Bob is correct. The books I'm talking about are the free downloads. My for-sale ebooks are all through the regular sellers, and I have no idea how they do by format. Indeed, reporting is so slow, I have little idea how they're doing at all, other than that they got off to a good start after the May release.
The reason I offer two different PDFs is that, besides the fact that the tagged files are appreciably larger, the regular PDFs are formatted to look nicer on a big screen, or printed out. I suspect, actually, that most of the PDF people have no intention of copying the files to a device, and are simply planning to print or view on a monitor. My mouse-over tips suggest regular PDF for this purpose. I also suggest trying one of the other ebook formats.
In descending order of popularity, here's a rough breakdown from last month:
PDF
tagged PDF
html
PRC
RTF
EPUB
LRF
PDB
LIT
Edit: Epub is moving up. In the early months, it was at or close to the bottom.