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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Problem with publishers making PDF for specific screen sizes is still an issue. Sure it might look good on my 505. But what if I was to decide to get a Daily Edition or some other reader with a larger then 6" screen? The PDFs would then not look good. PDF is a fixed format that is not good for situations where you need to have them tailored to a wide range of screen sized.
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The best I could imagine for commercial PDFs is something like Feedbooks' setup... here's a couple of standard options (letter size, and popular reader size), and here's the button for the set-your-own-choices menu, so you can have the page size you want and possibly the base font size you want.
I don't expect any mainstream publishers to go for this; aside from the DRM nightmare I suspect it would entail, they're very caught with the notion that an ebook should look just like the print version. Sometimes I think this is to "fool" the customer into thinking it's "just as good," even though he's told it's not loanable or resellable. Sometimes I think they're just too lazy or oblivious to write code to allow it; they don't offer print books in multiple formats of the reader's choice, and don't understand why ebooks are different.