Thread: PDF is not an eBook format
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Old 08-29-2009, 06:50 PM   #290
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Originally Posted by RobbieClarken View Post
Citing one ebook store isn't very scientific... what about WHSmith:
  • EPUB: 14,069
  • PDF: 74,010
  • MOBI: 28,242
  • LIT: 28,688
Waterstones only has 13,551 ebooks. Most libraries with an ebook collection have the majority in PDF.

Good job I'm not a scientist then, isn't it? PDF has been around a long time comparatively, of course it has the jump on ePub (a newer standard) but I just don't see any buzz around PDF in publishing, or in new media. The buzz is ePub, the standard is rapidly becoming ePub. It's exciting and modern and interesting people are shouting its virtues from the rooftops (well some of them are, especially when they're drunk).

You can keep this argument going forever, but we'll only know the real winner in a year or two from now when we have colour e-ink readers and bigger readers.

EDIT: and if you go to WHSMITH and click on say...Dan Brown's latest crud on the front page, guess what format it's offered in as an ebook? Is it PDF?
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