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Originally Posted by DawnFalcon
Yes, why would you want to rehash the same nonsense you've put out before? It remains nonsense.
... You are, quite litterally, a relic of another age in books. ...
... catering to "perfection" is simply too expensive for the small market who demand it.
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Wow!
It is ironic, to see claims like this, from people who consider primitive, barely formatted text to be the bleeding edge of modernity, and who's idea of "good enough" is the book format most commonly found at the supermarket checkout stand.... I suppose, next we'll hear, that the blinking green cursor on their monitor, is enough color for the rest of us.
Again, I bet these are the same people who on other sites, rile against Flash and Java, or PDF on the Web, and smugly claim, that those who use these technologies don't know what they are doing. And they usually hate Apple, because..., oh, who cares.
E-reader technology will fast move beyond tiny, monochrome screens and weak processors. With mass production, comes general standardization of screen sizes, and resolutions.
More people read newspapers and magazines, than books. Readers will only become truly mass market items, when they can handle such publications, in full color, as well as books (and probably video, and web).
So, you need a format, which can handle complex layouts, such as magazines and newspapers, as well as books. Right now, ePub can't do it, and PDF is the only format, which can.
If you want wide adoption, you need less formats, not more. As has been pointed out earlier, much of the current reflowable files are not e-books, they are documents. They look like documents, feel like documents, and have the visual appeal of the early internet.
The bottom like is, only when you can get color, well-designed, effective ads on readers, only then you'll have mass adoption.
And the good news is, then you'll have well-done books, as well. Most likely, in a format like PDF.